063 - Heiner Dreizehnter Model A

You don’t see many blackwood-topped guitars. In fact, this is the only one I’ve seen, my blackwood beauty, built by German luthier, Heiner Dreizehnter.

I met Heiner at the Open Strings Guitar Festival in Osnabrück. Of the many guitars that I played over the festival weekend, this was the one that I couldn’t forget. It took two months before I succumbed to the siren song of the blackwood, but succumb I did. I made the call, hoping that it hadn’t sold and, thankfully, it hadn’t.

It is Tasmanian blackwood throughout with maple bindings and ebony fretboard, headstock veneer, bridge and bridge pins. The specs are as follows:

• Scale length is 648mm (25.5″)
• Nut width, 45mm (1.77″).
• Lower bout, 395mm (15.55″)
• Upper bout, 290mm (11.42″)
• Waist, 245mm (9.65″)
• Depth at end pin, 120mm (4.72″)

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