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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.
The 00-14 is very much inspired by the classic L-00 in shape and in character. I build these guitars very light and they have an incredible amount of punch and volume. I use my own variation of an X-brace pattern which uses one finger brace on the bass side, two on the treble, splayed tone bars, a maple bridge plate and a graduated top. The results are a bass response with great depth, a high end with clarity, and an overall complexity that is super responsive but also extremely stable.
