2008 Jim Redgate "Double Top" No. 287 CD/CSAR

Year	2008
Top	Cedar
Back & Sides	CSA Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	54 mm
Finish	Oil
Country	Australia
Luthier	Jim Redgate

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2008 Jim Redgate "Double Top" No. 287 CD/CSAR

Description

This 2008 Jim Redgate “Double Top” No. 287 is a cedar and CSA rosewood double-top classical guitar with engraved Graf tuners.

Redgate’s Double Top

In contrast to his lattice instruments, this double top is much lighter in weight, with a more traditional feel. Sandwiched between two thin pieces of cedar is a honeycombed material, and the inside is braced with six braces (not fanned) at a diagonal to the soundhole, angled to the treble side as they proceed down towards the foot. These braces are anchored in several places with “open” and scalloped cross braces, perhaps at particular nodal points to control the overtone content of the sound. This system produces a sound with added power and balance.

A Durable Concert Guitar

The soundboard has a very thin oil finish, and the back and sides are lacquered, making this a very durable instrument for the player looking for a workhorse of a concert guitar. It is fitted with an armrest and a colorful set of Graf tuners with floral and bird engravings and black mother-of-pearl buttons. The label is signed and numbered 287. Although a used guitar, it is in excellent condition with only minor signs of previous use.

Background

Jim Redgate of Adelaide

After Greg Smallman, Jim Redgate is perhaps the best-known maker of lattice-top guitars working in Australia. Born in London in 1963, he builds in Adelaide, South Australia. Like Smallman’s, his lattice guitars have thick, heavily domed backs that create an extremely rigid and solid body, so that almost all vibration from the plucked string goes to the soundboard – a thin top reinforced with a lattice of very light but durable balsa wood with carbon fiber integrated throughout.

Lattice and Double Tops

The added power of this system has been attractive to younger players, most notably Ana Vidović, who has had great success concertizing on his instruments. Jim also builds double-topped guitars, played by many professionals including Ralph Towner, Odair Assad, Slava Grigoryan and Aleksandr Tsiboulski, to name but a few.