Description
Jose Ruiz Pedregosa 2017 flamenco guitar – amazing sounding guitar by this great luthier!
Jose Ruiz Pedregosa is the only disciple of the Spanish luthier Jerónimo Peña Fernández. He builds handmade classical and flamenco guitars which are works of art.
His workshop has become a meeting place for many guitar lovers and flamenco players: El Cabrero, El Tomate, Vicente Amigo, El Curri, Jose Luis Postigo, Manolo Siveria, and Juan Núñez.
Because he is a guitar maker who works alone using traditional methods, Jose’s production is very limited and until his retirement in 2020 he has a long waiting list.
This guitar is simply magnificent and a work of art. It is a special model, with carved headstock, carved bridge and a beautiful decorations all around. The amount of work involved is huge and only a master could do it. The woods of this guitar are of extreme quality. It features a spruce top and cypress back and sides. The scale length is 650 mm and the nut width 51 mm. The action is comfortably low at 2.9 mm E and 2.2 mm e at the 12th fret. The saddle of the bridge has still room left to go lower in the future. The neck is straight and it has good frets.
The sound of this guitar is powerful, thick and dark. It impresses with a huge volume and has a great dynamic with a fresh and crisp tone.
This is without doubt a fine concert level guitar with a very strong fundamental and very controlled overtones. It has a very natural, “woody” quality of sound, very stylish, refined and alluring. In the hands, it feels very expressive and responsive to the most subtle of changes in the players touch. The sound is absolutely magical from the bottom-end to the highest registers.
The condition of this guitar is good. It has been played and it has one repair on the top. The previous owner gave it to a luthier who took the finish of and refinished the whole guitar. We offer this guitar at a great price for a player who wants to have a very good sounding guitar at a fraction of its normal price, because of the modifications made.
The guitar comes with a hard case.