Here are some beautiful photos of a top-of-the-range Maton acoustic guitar from the Guitar Factory in Parramatta, Sydney, featuring some stunning fiddleback blackwood.
http://maton.com.au/product/w.a.-may-custom
Designed as a tribute to our founder, Bill May and to bring the best of our heritage and our guitar making skills together, the W.A May is a guitar for the connoisseur.
Victorian Blackwood (in our opinion the best tone wood available) back and sides combine with blackwood neck and AAA spruce face to produce a huge sounding dreadnought guitar. Add to that our unique Custom Shop voicing and craftsmanship, you have a guitar worthy of the name W.A May
That it features Victorian blackwood is fine by me.
It’s almost too good to play!
Enjoy!
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The outstanding beauty and its unique everlasting quality of sound presentation makes the Blackwood species a highly desirable musical instrument timber.
What’s next, maybe Blackwood based Violins?
Already happening William:
http://www.caldersmithviolins.com.au/violin.php
Graham Caldersmith is one of Australia’s finest luthiers.
To be fair I should add that Graham is not the only luthier making blackwood bowed instruments. A Google search will locate plenty of others.