ASTURIAS Double Top 2024

Asturias “Double Top” Model, 51 mm nut, cedar and Nomex soundboard, Indian rosewood sides and back, elevated fingerboard, French polish on the top, catalyzed urethane varnish on the rest of the instrument, deluxe Gotoh tuning machines.
Many players are using the so called “double top” instruments made with Nomex cores pioneered by Mathias Dammann and Gernot Wagner of Germany whose instruments today command staggering figures.  
The theory is if the top is lighter, more of the energy of the player’s right hand will result in audible volume since there is less mass to get vibrating.  
Using Nomex which is a very lightweight honeycomb material developed originally for the aircraft industry where weight reduction equals fuel savings, Gernot Wagner and many other contemporary makers have been experimenting now for over twenty years with this material trying to reduce soundboard weight and hence increase volume.  
Asturias has been following this closely and giving considerable thought to this approach.
Loud, but also very musical, virtually every player who has played this failed to note any unpleasant tonalities that would tip off this instrument’s non-traditional construction technique.  
Very even, brilliant, singing, and robust response, with lots of color and amazingly, a huge usable dynamic range.  
The notes seem to jump out of the instrument effortlessly, and it is still very musical and controllable.
Because of the labor involved in producing these Nomex soundboard by hand, this genre of instrument always carries a cost premium, but this instrument is very reasonably priced.

Top : Cedar / NOMEX honeycomb / Cedar

Sides : Solid East Indian Rosewood

Scale : 650mm

Fingerboard : Ebony Elevated Fingerboard

Neck : Mahogany

Finish : French Polish top / Polyurethan back & sides

Made in Japan

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ASTURIAS GUITAR MANUFACTURING LTD. is a shop of handcraft guitars with the highest reputation in quality of its products. The shop is located in Kurume city of Kyushu island, and 15 highly skilled craftsman from all over the nation are building classical guitars,acoustic guitars, classical mandolins, and ukuleles.

The shop is a subsidiary company of Rokkomann Inc. based in Kobe,Japan.

Years of natural drying and seasoning of tonewood is the most important factor of our guitar making.

All woods are settled for at least 3years,and especially for sound boards,neck, and fingerboards, more time is spent in order to avoid problems of change of climate in different countries.

After long seasoning years, all materials are cut and kept in the humidity controlled room for 6 months before going into construction stage.