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Jumbo / No. RG-26-008

Belltower J-16 Maple

$5,200

A 17 inch jumbo in flamed maple with an amber burst. Loud, transparent and surprisingly polite.

Body shape
Jumbo
Soundboard
Sitka Spruce
Back & sides
Flamed Maple
Bracing
Scalloped X, wide-set
Scale length
25.5″
Nut width
1.75″
Lower bout
17″
Body depth
4.75″
Finish
Gloss nitrocellulose, amber burst
Serial
RG-26-008
Build time
14 weeks
Annual run
4 per year
Timber cured in our own loft for four years or more, documented on the build sheet.
Fifty-point setup and a two-week approval window from the day it reaches you.
Ships in a fitted arched case, humidity-conditioned, insured door to door.
SKU: RT-BELLTOWERJ16MAPLE Category:

Description

A jumbo is a big soundboard over a narrow waist, and maple is the timber that keeps it from turning to mud. Maple reflects rather than colours: it hands back what the top gives it, so a 245 square inch soundboard stays articulate instead of blooming into one long note.

The burst is sprayed in three passes over the flame and cut back by hand. Wide-set scalloped X bracing to let the lower bout move, a 25.5 inch scale for definition, and a slightly deeper rim at the tail block than at the neck.

Measured build sheet

Every figure below was taken off this instrument on the bench, not copied from a model specification.

Body shapeJumbo
SoundboardSitka Spruce
Back & sidesFlamed Maple
BracingScalloped X, wide-set
Scale length25.5″
Nut width1.75″
Lower bout17″
Body depth4.75″
FinishGloss nitrocellulose, amber burst
SerialRG-26-008
Build time14 weeks
Annual run4 per year