Selling my Sergei De Jonge lattice braced spruce top guitar. This is an amazing guitar with a beautiful sound that I have used to play many concerts and have recorded two albums with. I bought the guitar new in 2005 at the Guitar Salon in NYC for $8500. There are the minor cosmetic issues that come from years of use since it's French polished; there was a hairline crack, as is indicated in the picture with my thumb, that was repaired in 2006 by expert luthier Rodrigo Shopis. The side crack is minor and doesn’t need repair work done on it. There are scratches on the soundboard as well as sides and back mainly because the French polish is so thin.