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Andy Culpepper is one of our favorite young American luthiers, building both flamenco and classical instruments that we have sold to many happy clients. For the body of this excellent 'negra' he uses padauk, or "coral" as the Spanish luthiers call it - and many of the all-time great flamenco luthiers like Reyes, Arcangel and Barba have used this wood with success. It's hard and dense like rosewood, but brighter sounding, and therefore makes a superb flamenco guitar that mixes the attack of a blanca with the body of a negra. The color of the wood is quite bright when first cut, which is perhaps the only reason it's not used more often, but ages to a beautiful deep vermillion as it has done in this guitar. It comes from the early epoch of Andy's work, but already shows the great talent we've come to appreciate in his instruments. Very loud, projecting and flamenco-sounding, bright, snappy and easy to play. An excellent value from a maker whose reputation continues to grow.
