Roy Fankhaenel Spruce, Yew 2023

Roy is master luthier crafting guitars in his workshop in Oelsnitz in the German Ore mountains.  He builds classical guitars but also extends to electric and acoustic.  He specialises in bespoke builds to meet the customer's requirements, both in sound quality and aesthetics.  For his classical instruments he follows the traditional Spanish build and incorporates such features as an elevated fingerboard to meet the needs of his clients. 

The guitar offered for sale features a Spruce top along with beautifully book matched Yew back.  The back and sides are particularly striking as they feature sapwood highlights.  The guitar has standard concert dimensions of a 650mm scale length and a 52mm scalloped nut.  Features such as the raised fingerboard and the radiused neck make the guitar east to play.  The saddle is compensated for the G string and an interesting feature is that the nut is set into the fingerboard.   The workmanship and attention to detail is exemplary and the guitar itself is in excellent condition with only a tiny ding on the soundboard.  The sound follows the Spanish style of a fan braced guitar with bright but full trebles and a strong bass response.  Balance across the strings is also very good.  Overall this is a very lovely guitar both to look at and also to play.  It comes with all the original documentation from Siccas where it was bought and the link below is to their playing and commenting on the guitar.

https://www.siccasguitars.com/products/roy-fankhaenel-2023-spruce-yew-no-226

Price £5,500