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Parlour / No. RG-26-006

Ember P-3

$3,950

A 13.5 inch parlour on a 24.9 inch scale. Adirondack over mahogany, fan braced, shellac finished.

Body shape
Parlour
Soundboard
Adirondack Spruce
Back & sides
Honduran Mahogany
Bracing
Fan, seven bars
Scale length
24.9″
Nut width
1.75″
Lower bout
13.5″
Body depth
4″
Finish
Hand-rubbed shellac
Serial
RG-26-006
Build time
11 weeks
Annual run
6 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-EMBERP3 Category:

Description

The smallest box we build, and the one people are most often surprised by. A short 24.9 inch scale drops total string tension to around 148 pounds with a light set, so it plays soft under the fingers, and the fan bracing pushes the midrange forward instead of chasing bass the body cannot produce anyway.

French-polished shellac rather than lacquer: thinner, more repairable, and it lets a small top move. This is a writing and recording instrument. It will not keep up with a banjo and it is not trying to.

Measured build sheet

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

Body shapeParlour
SoundboardAdirondack Spruce
Back & sidesHonduran Mahogany
BracingFan, seven bars
Scale length24.9″
Nut width1.75″
Lower bout13.5″
Body depth4″
FinishHand-rubbed shellac
SerialRG-26-006
Build time11 weeks
Annual run6 per year