NAMM 2016: $85k One-Piece Sauvage Guitar!
NAMM2016 If you’ve got a spare $85k to spend, we’ve got just the piece of gear for you! We heard about the Sauvage Guitar shortly before NAMM, and couldn’t wait to see it in-person; a one-piece guitar crafted from a selected piece of ash olive burl, a very special wood that deserves unique treatment. To get the best from this outstanding wood, the “One-Piece Master” is carved out in one single piece. The uncompromising construction method has been pushed to its limits with a “through body” fingerboard that literally becomes the soundboard of the instrument. The concave body and soundboard of the “One-Piece Master” create a reverberation chamber that gives the instrument unequaled sustain and a unique resonance.
Olive ash burl is a relatively lightweight wood, and sonically it delivers a very pleasing balance of brightness and warmth. The flamed maple wood of the “through body” fingerboard is prized for its bright tone and great sustain.
The neck is reinforced with 4 titanium rods ensuring neck stability and superior playing comfort. The titanium is lighter, stronger and resonates better than a classic steel truss rod for richer tones across the frequency spectrum.
The “One-Piece Master” breaks with convention at every step of the construction process: the neck angle has never been seen before on a one-piece instrument, making the “One-Piece Master” an astonishing engineering achievement.
It’s no understatement to call the first Sauvage Guitars’ instrument a masterpiece.
See photos and specs of this super-guitar below!
Body features:
100+ year old olive ash burl wood
More than 35 years of drying
Moisture content down to 7%
One-piece construction
First one-piece guitar featuring a neck angle
Concave body construction with reverberation chamber
Strings through body
Neck features:
Flamed maple
“Through body” fingerboard / soundboard
Scale length: 24’75”
Radius: 12″
Frets: 21
Width at nut: 43mm
Neck profile: standard thin
Hardware features:
Mammoth fossil horn nut
Bridge shaped from solid Damascuss steel billet
Photo-luminescent Cristallium® plate
Open gear Kluson tuner with custom buttons shaped from solid fortal
Knobs silver plated, shaped from solid fortal
Etched “Sauvage” logo silver plated
Electronics features:
Two Sauvage Guitars custom wood pickups
Bridge output: 13.8K ohm
Neck output: 7.8K ohm
Polished 500ko Emerson Pro CTS pots
Individual bridge pickup
Individual neck pickup
One master tone
Russian paper-in-oil capacitors
Custom made magnet-locked back plate
Finish:
Body natural finish
Top & Headstock Facel Vega’s “Tudor Gray”
Display:
Original piece of olive ash burl wood
“Levitation” display stand
