2023 Dietmar Heubner "Bois de Rose" SP/AR

This 2023 Dietmar Heubner “Bois de Rose” is a spruce and reddish African rosewood classical guitar – the first Heubner we had with Italian cypress back bars and side struts.

“Bois de Rose”

For this guitar, Dietmar chose a stunning set of very “reddish” African rosewood for the back and sides, which he calls “Bois de Rose”. Of it he says: “Bois de Rose is one of the most striking tonewoods I’ve ever worked with. It’s a perfect pairing with the fine spruce top.” The back bars and side struts are made of Italian cypress – our first like this.

Details

Snakewood buttons on the Scheller tuners match the rosewood-veneered headstock, and the French polish is mirror-like. The label is dated May 2023.

See photos of this guitar taken during construction on our blog.

Dietmar Heubner: From Stuttgart to Berlin

Like so many of the world’s top luthiers of the past, German luthier Dietmar Heubner started out his woodworking career as a cabinet maker in Stuttgart in the 1980s but quickly turned to the construction of classical guitars. After nearly 30 years of working in southern Germany, Dietmar moved his workshop to Berlin in the summer of 2018, where he joined a small community of luthiers who call themselves the “Berlin Luthiers” – colleagues and friends who find their collective a fertile ground for mutual inspiration and the genuine exchange of experience. GSI is his exclusive representative in the USA.

Traditional Guitars with a Bold, Modern Sound

Dietmar focuses on building traditional guitars with a bold, modern sound that allows musicians to create their own individual tone. His emphasis is on a wide dynamic range, great balance, an abundance of tonal colors and maximal projection, and he has an understated yet extremely elegant and precise aesthetic: a rosette of an inner mosaic of tiny pieces of wood between bands of purfling, with two outer mosaics of connected diamonds, and a French polish of the highest quality.