JUMBO MODELS

JUMBO

An earlier version of this tight waisted Jumbo model was my first standard design, with the prototypes still being used by Richard Durrant and Nick Pynn as their main guitars. If you like larger guitars but want more versatility and greater responsiveness to fingerstyle techniques than a standard Dreadnought design can give then this model is a great choice with it's bright sustaining trebles and deep piano-like bass. This shape is newly updated and refined for 2007.

Left and right: 'New Standard' Jumbo with 'Scoop' cutaway, wedge body, Amazon Rosewood and Sitka Spruce with Bloodwood edgings.

Traditionally tight waisted Jumbo guitars derived partly from archtop shapes and were mainly used for strummed accompaniment. Modern makers have found that with a lighter build and updated design this body size can be ideal for fingerstyle playing, producing great depth in low tunings and beautiful sustain and clarity. Cedar topped Jumbos can also produce a characteristic harmonically rich and explosive tone beloved by many contemporary players.

My largest Jumbo model is not huge by jumbo standards (415mm/16.25 inches at the lower bout) and also has a Manser Wedge body taper to improve comfort.

A great choice for sustaining melodic playing in lower tunings with the denser woods such as Cocobolo or explosive percussion styles in Mahogany or Koa. Choose a Sitka/Lutz Spruce top or Redwood a lucious, dark tone.

MIDI-JUMBO

My Midi-Jumbo model is very similar in outline to the full Jumbo but has a smaller 400mm (15.75 inch) wide lower bout.

The tight waisted shape gives a direct and vibrant treble and a great tonal balance ideal for many situations.

The MJ is a great alternative to my popular JOM model: giving a slightly more direct tone with extra focus.

Great in Indian Rosewood or Mahogany with either a Spruce or Cedar top.

This model's tonal balance is ideally suited to Cedar soundboards so is usually my first recommendation if you like the tone of Cedar!

Left and right; Midi-Jumbo, here in Macassar Ebony and Lutz Spruce with Double-Bound decoration.

I built a modified version of my Jumbo model to replace Eric Roche's very worn main guitar. It had special internal reinforcements for Eric's body percussion techniques and a harder wearing spruce scratch-plate for his wood scratching sound. An RMC synth pickup system plus a Fishman Rarearth Blend pickup were fitted to get Eric's unique live sound.

This prototype guitar is now owned by Newton Faulkner and has been updated with LR Baggs M1 pickup plus Dual Source mic and preamp.

I now offer the Jumbo models in my new 'Percussion' construction to resist percussive body techniques and work well in the low tunings and for all the progressive techniques used by many modern players.

Dimensions Jumbo

Dimensions Midi-Jumbo