Why not spread the cost?
The Bouchereau MJ.C is one of the first two new guitar to arrive at TNAG from Canada-based luthier Loic Bortot.
This MJ.C model features a wonderful straight-grained Cocobolo set for the back and sides, with a Swiss Moon Spruce top. The Honduran Mahogany neck is topped by an Indian Ebony raised fingerboard. The body has a clear gloss polyurethane finish while the neck has a satin finish.
Loic Bertot gave us his thoughts on this gorgeous build:
"The MJ.C (Mini-jumbo) model comes in quite a fancy spec, with a stunning set of tightly grained Cocobolo Rosewood, paired with high-grade Swiss Moon Spruce. It features a Florentine cutaway and a "squared" arm bevel. I think the back didn't need any back strip addition, as the beauty of the wood speaks for itself. The binding for the guitar is black Ebony with thin Maple purfling."
- MJ.C model (Mini-Jumbo), serial number #021
- Scale length: 25.34”
- 15-1/2" wide at the lower bout
- 4-1/2" deep
- General geometry: Raised fingerboard, 30 feet radius top, 16 feet radius back, 14th fret neck/body joint
- Neck Construction: Carbon-reinforced, double acting truss rod, scarf jointed head angle, one-piece jointed heel block
- Body construction: laminated sides, laminated Spanish cedar linings
- String spacing: 1.5” at the nut, 2.25” at the saddle
- Tuning machines: Schertler open-gear 18:1, silver with ebony buttons
- Strings: Elixir nanoweb phosphor bronze .012-.053
- Finish: Clear gloss polyurethane, satin finish neck
- Frets: 22, medium size, stainless steel
- Magnetic truss rod cover
- Case: Hiscox Pro II OM
- Top: Swiss “Moon” spruce (Picea Abies)
- Back / sides: Cocobolo Rosewood (Dalbergia Retusa)
- Neck: Honduran mahogany (Swietenia Macropylla)
- Fingerboard / bridge: Indian ebony (Diospyros Ebenum)
- Front head plate: Cocobolo Rosewood (Dalbergia Retusa) - Back head plate: Black veneer
- Binding: Indian ebony (Diospyros Ebenum)
- Bridge pins: Indian ebony (Diospyros Ebenum)
- Nut / saddle: Bone
- Fret markers: 3/32” copper rings
- Rosette: Cocobolo Rosewood, radial grain
- Endgraft: 0.25” ebony stripe
- Top purfling: 0.3mm black / white
- Back / sides purfling: 0.5mm black / white
- Headstock Binding: chamfered ebony with 0.3mm white trim - Fingerboard binding: Ebony with 0.3mm white trim
- Florentine cutaway
- “Squared” arm-bevel