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Benavides Guitars are built with four principles of equal importance:  beauty, tone, playability and longevity.  A hand fitted dovetail neck join, compound radius fretboard, tap-tuned tone bars, hot hide glued top braces, and the finest quarter-sawn timbers in the world are a few components of what will make your customized Benavides Guitar sound gorgeous.

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 This 000 features logs recovered from a local river in the Far North of New Zealand which are estimated to be about 500 years old. The Top is Kahikatea which is similar to Sitka Spruce but has become stained from the minerals and river sediment, as well as being given a light stain around its edges to accentuate its dramatic colour. The back and sides are New Zealand Rimu, which is a hardwood similar in density to Mahogany and has also been stained to a charcoal grey colour from the river sediment.