I am happy to consign your guitar at a sliding scale, depending on price, but I am also willing to list your guitar for sale while you keep it at home and enjoy it. Before moving on to a new instrument, the need to sell the older one(s) arises. Most folks who visit the Chartwell Guitar site already own a good, or even great, guitar. I look forward to talking with you about making a guitar dream a reality. If you come to this site with excitement at finding something new or something quite special at a fair price, you share my founding impulse. A very few guitars are available for a cash sale only, at the discretion of the dealer.Ĭhartwell Guitar celebrates the magic a fine, luthier built guitar produces. Guitars bought used will enjoy an 80% credit. After that initial month, a buyer will receive 75% of the purchase price for a period of two years if replaced with another guitar of similar or greater value.
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I'm expecting my first Alan Chapman/Jef Fisher very soon.Īny buyer who wishes to trade a guitar bought here for another will receive a full credit for the purchase price towards one of the same or higher value within 30 days. In the last month I have added a Canin, O'Leary, Ruck, Bernabe, and Price and have new double tops on order from Tim Harris, Tim Steis, and Aaron Ringo. Players, builders, and other dealers who share my musical values (pleasing the eye and the ear) have been most pleasant to work with and learn from. A handsome and responsive instrument which is still a new guitar.Ĭhartwell Guitar is now eight years old and I am very pleased with the current inventory, which is a result searching out reasonably priced, high quality instruments through luthier commissions, used purchases, and trades. This guitar can be pushed, as there is just the right amount of string tension under the right hand. Overall, there is a generally warm sweetness to his sound, typical also of his fan braced guitar also on the site. His guitars seem to occupy a middle range between dry, punchy guitars, and others which have a more rounded, wet intonation. It does enhance the volume, projection, and sustain just a bit, which is welcome, but the colors are typical of a traditionally built, fan braced instrument. The lattice bracing here is hardly a noticeable aspect in sound quality. The sapwood book match accent distinguishes this top in an interesting way. String spacing 44mm at nut, 57mm at saddle.Ĭomment: Richard Prenkert guitars are always beautifully crafted and his cedar tops are as pure as can be found.
Miscellany: 650 mm scale 53.5 mm nut, 3.75mm bass string height at 12th fret, 3.0 treble, mahogany neck, rosewood headstock veneer. One of the most handsome rosettes, with a nut toned spalt and edged with ebony and an egg and dart motif in the same wood as the back /bout filet. Richard does not use carbon fiber and his sound is thus less nasal and more natural than the Australian method. A unique use of a bookmatched pair of cedar slats with a lighter edge, which form a distinctive band through the middle of the top, running under the bridge. Top: western red cedar with lattice bracing.
2012 Richard Prenkert Indian rosewood and cedar latticeīack and sides: Straight grained East Indian rosewood, deeply figured, with a very fine contrasting filet running down the back and around the bouts as part of the binding decoration.
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