Jorge Menezes Robert Bouchet Style Classical Guitar (2023), ser. #105, black hard shell case.

Jorge Menezes Robert Bouchet Style Model Classical Guitar (2023), made in San Paolo, Brazil, serial # 105, French polish top, polyurethane varnish back and sides finish, Russian spruce top, repurposed Brazilian jacaranda back and sides, ebony fingerboard, Brazilian jacaranda bridge, Brazilian pink cedar neck, black hard shell case. This rich sounding modern concert guitar was completed in July 2023 by Luthier Jorge Luis De Pavia Menezes of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is built to the pattern of a 1961 Bouchet using Russian spruce for the top and recovered Brazilian Jacaranda wood for the back and sides. The neck is Brazilian pink cedar with an ebony fingerboard. The rosette is Jorge Menezes own pattern and the guitar is fitted out with De Jung tuners. The top is finished in a very thin French polish, the back and sides in a harder wearing Polyurethane varnish. Menezes says of this guitar: "Built according to the blueprint and notes of the great luthier Robert Bouchet giving my maximum for a guitar that approximates the sound of the original guitars and having my own identity in its physical aspect." This is a very fine sounding instrument, waiting for a serious player to bring the sound to full flower.Overall length is 38 3/4 in. (98.4 cm.), 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 in. (10.2 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 25 1/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 2 1/16 in. (52 mm.). This guitar is essentially new, with a few small handling marks but very little played. Some of the finish work by the sides of the neck/fingerboard/body joint is not as neatly polished out as modern European or American-made instruments but that tends to be typical of Brazilian-made pieces. The guitar has no flaws sonically; It plays very well with a powerful, well rounded sound. Near Mint Condition.