With the Dowina Granadillo Bona Vida Parlor, the Slovak manufacturer combines a traditional guitar design with modern components. Fingerstyle fans and traditionalists can look forward to a new high-end model from the Master Series, as the finest woods, a compact design and an outstanding sound come together. The instrument is also visually very successful because the viewer can hardly get enough of the elaborate bindings,
The manufacturer uses only the best hand-selected woods in the Master series, which are fully matched to the design and construction of the guitar. The solid top made of dolomite spr uce provides plenty of brilliance in the overtones and a clear, midrange-rich sound. Its particularly bright appearance clearly indicates its alpine origin and aesthetically matches the other woods perfectly.
The solid body made of granadillo provides the necessary dynamics and radiates very clear and powerful bass. Granadillo is also known as the "rosewood of Mexico" in guitar making due to its sound characteristics, and with its eye-catching coarse-grained appearance, it represents a completely convincing alternative. The thin satin finish emphasizes that visual characteristics are also taken into account when selecting the woods, rounding out the entire work to its perfection.
The solid 18-fret mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard is extremely comfortable to play up to the highest registers. A short 638 mm scale length, the neck/body transition at the 12th fret and a 45 mm wide nut allows the player to master even complicated fingerings with ease. In addition, an intricately crafted custom inlay is located at the 12th fret.
High-quality chrome-plated Gotoh open-gear nickel tuners offer the player precise and smooth tuning and reflect the traditional aspects of the instrument. Bone nut and saddle, meanwhile, give the guitar precisely tuned intonation in all frets and provide a comfortably flat string action. The abalone soundhole rosette creates a fine interplay between the inlay work in the fretboard and the abalone-dotted bridge pins set into the ebony bridge. The guitar also comes in a form-fitting brown Dowina case.