A-40 | Master Series handmade auditorium OOO guitar
A-40 overview
handmade auditorium OOO guitar, solid spruce & mahogany, gloss finish
Richwood Master Series are all handmade acoustic guitars, made of premium selected tonewoods, professionally set-up before packing.
Our Auditorium model is elegantly shaped, yet the body is deeper and thus delivers a warmer tone that suits not only the fingerstyle player perfectly, but still pleases the flatpicker perfectly. The smaller surface size of the top makes it easier to put into motion, it responds quicker than a bigger surface top. This makes the A-40 perfect for fingerstyle playing. The solid sitka spruce top combined with mahogany back and sides result in a light, yet warm and lively tone. The 40 series has a gloss finish that makes the lively tone more focussed and gives the high frequencies more body.
The technical and aesthetical advanced features include bone fittings, a double action trussrod, voluted headstock joint, cotton capped X-braces, mahogany back braces, high grade Derjung machine heads, USA D'Addario EXP16 coated phosphor bronze strings.
A-40
| body shape | deep auditorium OOO |
| bracing design | X scalloped, with mahogany back braces |
| scale length | 650 mm |
| body length | 480 mm |
| lower bout width | 382 mm |
| body thickness | 92/111 mm |
| top material | solid A grade Sitka spruce |
| back & side material | laminated mahogany |
| neck material | Indonesian mahogany |
| fingerboard material | Indian rosewood |
| fingerboard binding material | Indian rosewood |
| fingerboard radius | 14" |
| bridge material | Indian rosewood |
| top colour | natural |
| body finishing | glossy |
| neck finish | satin |
| rosette | 3 rings black & ivory |
| top purfling | 3-ply |
| side binding | black |
| back binding | black |
| trussrod | active two-way |
| top position dots | 7 mm + 5 mm white pearl shell |
| side position dots | 2 mm white pearl shell |
| frets | 2.4*1.1 mm 18% nickel silver |
| nut & saddle material | bone 43*6 mm and 72*3mm |
| machine head | Derjung Deluxe chrome |
| strings | D'Addario EXP-16 |
| bridge pins | black colour, white core |
| pickguard | imported 129 black D |
| strap button | chrome |
| extra | additional genuine bone saddle and 1 x saddle underlayment |