A great custom OM from Santa Cruz with a perfect pairing of tonewoods and body size. Beautiful premium figured Hawaiian Koa back and sides with a High Altitude Swiss Moon Spruce top in an OM body size makes for the perfect marriage of punch, clarity, balance and versatility. Clear and reflective with a broken in sound and great note separation make this great for fingerstyle or strumming and flatpicking.
Moon Spruce
This is High Altitude Swiss Moon Spruce. What is Moon Spruce exactly? Moon Spruce is simply a name for spruce that was harvested and handled according to a centuries-old tradition from the Alp-regions in Europe. Carpenters and luthiers had recognized that wood that was cut under certain conditions, differs from wood that is not cut using the old traditional way of handling. The tree is cut within the last quarter of the waning moon (end of waning moon phase) in the wintertime after the growing period of the tree has stopped (low sap flow).
Special “moon calendars” for the right times in using forests, from planting a tree to the harvest, were common within the old timber-“industry”, long before industrialization took part. Now the regular forests got more and more used on a pure technical way, not considering the old traditional rules – and forgetting some hundred years of knowledge for the “right time”.
Includes deluxe hardshell case and Lifetime Warranty.
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