2008 Goodall RGCCSS Short Scale Grand Concert with Cutaway, Cedar & EIR
Offered for your consideration is this very special short scale Grand Concert guitar built by James Goodall in his Hawaii shop in 2008. This is one fabulous acoustic!
This a 14-fret, short scale (25") instrument with a venetian cutaway and a body that is just 19-1/2" long and 15" wide at the lower bout. It has a marvelous Red Cedar top matched with very straight-grained Rosewood for the back and sides. It has Curly Maple body binding and backstrip with an Abalone rosette and fingerboard inlays. It has a sleek oval-shaped Mahogany neck with Ebony binding . The fretboard is Ebony with a 16" radius, Paua inlays and a 1-3/4" bone nut. The headstock has Maple binding, an Ebony overlay and Paua logo inlay. It has an Ebony bridge with a bone saddle and 2-1/4" string spacing. The tuners are nickel Gotoh 510's. It comes with a clear plastic pickguard which Jim installs on most of his guitars and was ordered with factory installed LR Baggs Anthem electronics.
The Grand Concert body may be the perfect compromise between size and output; big enough to have significant power, but small enough to be quite comfortable to play. If you listen to the included sound sample you will find that this guitar has a voice that is rich, clear and balanced, with great note separation and lots of the overtones that Goodall guitars have long been known for. The Cedar top is beautiful and adds just a touch of additional warmth versus a comparable spruce top model. It is set up with Elixir Phosphor Bronze light gauge strings with 12th fret string heights of 6/64" on the low E side and 4/64" on the high E side. If you need to play amplified, you cannot get a much better setup than this LR Baggs system with it's sound hole mounted controls.
This guitar has been babied and despite being built in 2008 remains in near mint condition with no flaws of any significance, frets included. It comes in it's original Ameritage Gold case with built in humidification.
Commissioned today, a guitar with these specs would require an investment of approximately $8K. Get this exceptionally well maintained 2008 example for several grand less. She's a fabulous guitar. Make her yours!
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