- SKU: sn553
- Manufacturers Part No. : J-Sierra
This is a premium quality 12 string acoustic hand made by master luthier Charles Fox in Healdsburg California. The internal build quality and finishing on this instrument is just as impressive on the inside as it is on the outside!, and along with its unique neck joint, you will rarely see such neat internal bracing. The attention to detail on this guitar is simply staggering.
The spruce top is nicely aged with an Abalone boarder and further enhanced by a flame Maple binding. The quilted mahogany back and sides are beautifully figured. Solid Mahogany neck with an Ebony fingerboard and perfectly executed Abalone and flame Maple binding. The unique C Fox headstock is also inlayed with Abalone, with a Flame Maple binding. The machine heads fitted are Schaller. This guitar has a Rosewood bridge plate and ebony bridge pins.
This guitar plays and sounds as good as it looks. There is also an active internal pick-up fitted
The quality and craftsmanship of this instrument is comparable with the very finest hand built instruments from Collins Sata Cruz or Lowden. If you are looking for a very special 12 sting acoustic, then this may be the guitar for you.
Sold with a hard shell case
So who is Charles Fox?
A native northern Californian, Fox lived for much of the 1960s in Chicago, where he earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Northwestern University. After teaching art in Colorado and New Hampshire, Fox decided to pursue the passion for making stringed instruments that struck him shortly after he finished graduate school. Settling in Vermont, he pioneered formal lutherie education in North America by founding the School of Guitar Research and Design in 1973. He also founded GRD Guitars, which was among the first small shops in the US to offer high-end acoustic and electric guitars. In the 1980s, Fox moved back to the West Coast, eventually establishing first the American School of Lutherie in Healdsburg, California, and then the CFox guitar company, the latter of which was dedicated to realizing his acoustic guitar designs in a small production environment.
