Circle Strings Dreadnought - Honduran mahogany and Adirondack Spruce

The Circle Strings Mahogany Dreadnought, #226, features old growth Honduran mahogany for the back and sides and an Adirondack spruce top. The scale length is 25.4” and the fingerboard radius is 16.” There are fourteen frets to the body, twenty one frets in total, with pearl dot markers at the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, twelfth and fifteenth frets. The headstock is adorned with a pearl inlaid Circle Strings logo and chrome plated Schaller Grandtune tuners are mounted. The neck is mahogany with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and headplate overlay. It is a soft V “Trey” specification profile, with an 0.85” depth at the first fret and 0.975” at the twelfth. The truss rod is dual-action with access through the sound hole The nut width is 1 ¾,” which is itself made from hand-cut bone. The body is bound in tortoise with an eight ply white and black purfling pattern for the top. The back and sides are comparatively plain, with no purfling and simple thin black center stripe. The end graft is, contrastingly, finely grained Brazilian rosewood and the endpin is ebony. A herringbone pattern has been selected for the soundhole rosette with black-white-black for the outer ring and a tortoise pickguard adjacent. The belly bridge is made from Brazilian rosewood with a hand cut bone saddle and a 2 ¼” string spacing. The top is remarkably even grained, carefully quartered, with an even tone throughout. The back and sides have evenly spaced bands of silking in the grain; a treat for the eyes rarely seen on newly manufactured guitars. It sings with ringing bass notes, shimmering trebles and lots of sustain. It already possesses a full, rich, smooth tone; great for flatpicking, strumming, and fingerstyle alike.