Rafal Turkowiak is a Polish luthier with a modern approach to the design of classical guitars. During his 40 years long guitarmaking career he invented many solutions like acoustic tubes or wave resonator.
Specification of Turkowiak classical guitar #293 :
- The first soundboard in the world with a VIII generation “WAVE” type resonator,
- The world’s first sides and back made of second-generation “HIGH-TECH PRESS” resonance wood (improvement of soundboard acoustics),
- First in the world with the fifth generation “ACOUSTIC TUBES” acoustic tubes (lower neck mass and better transmission of sound from the 1st fret to the body of the guitar, audible sound not only from the body guitar but also from the neck)
- “Acoustic Tubes” European Patent Office EP 3340231 (A1),
- Double-top – West Red Cedar -Master Grade,
- Sides and back made of wood – Ziricote with sapwood – Master Grade,
- Innovative, hand-carved ebony bridge decorated with natural bone and natural black mother of pearl,
- Raised ebony fingerboard – Master Grade,
- Asymmetric neck made of sycamore – Master Grade,
- Rosette inlaid with natural black mother-of-pearl and African ebony,
- Armrest integrated with the resonance box,
- Overlays on a through head of an African ebony guitar with a logo made of natural black mother of pearl,
- The nut made of natural bone, manually profiled and polished, 52 mm wide,
- The saddle made of natural bone, hand-profiled and polished,
- Precise guitar reeds (ebony knobs, black aluminum roller bearings, bolt reinforcements with white nacre, 18: 1 ratio),
- Ebony trimming,
- Markers dividing the scale made of natural bone – fi 1.5 mm for 5, 9 and fi 3 mm for 7, 12 (double) positions,
- High resonance, antistatic varnish according to own recipe, hand polished, finish: high gloss,
- 18% silver-nickel frets
- 650 mm scale
- 20 frets
- Lifetime warranty (details in the warranty card),
- Hard guitar case.
