Rather than discussing a particular guitar on this post, I will review a luthier and his custom guitars. This discussion is slightly different than other posts, as they revolve around classical guitars. Renato Bellucci is a luthier who constructs classical guitars (though he will do steel string guitars if requested) from exotic woods and uses many different and innovative construction techniques. While I could go on all day and night about these guitars and how absolutley beautiful they are, I will try to keep it brief
First of all, these guitars stand out because of their sheer beauty. Bellucci has built guitars using curly sinker redwood, brazillian rosewood, alpine spruce, snakewood, zebrawood, african blackwood, and many many more. All of these woods have different features, sounds, and looks. It takes a truely skilled luthier to have the knowledge to work with all of these different woods. Most of these exotic wood guitars are custom-made, or featured models that are not stocked. Because all of these guitars have different woods, even guitars with the same build have very unique sounds.
Along with the wide variety of matierals for the guitar, Bellucci uses many different construction techniques. Though there are some stock guitars, a large majority of his builds are custom. You have the option for a regular cutaway, indented cutaway, ventian cutaway, f-holes in the top, sound holes in the cutaway, sound holes in the sides, double-top construction, quad top construction, and many many more options. All inlays are done to the specific guitar and done according to exactly what you order. Without writing a multiple page review on his construction I will put it simply: Renato Bellucci is a master luthier.
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