000 Double-X | 2025

This is a double-x braced version of the 000 guitar I’ve built many times and come to love as the perfect all-rounder. The bracing is different only in that the lower two diagonal tone bars are replaced with a smaller x, which is intended to give the guitar a more even response. The wood choices are all very traditional – spruce and mahogany – except that I’ve used Fijian plantation mahogany for the back and sides. This mahogany is still one of the “true mahoganies” swietenia macrophylla, but it has not been taken from an old-growth forest. Instead it comes from plantations grown on Fiji. This is as ethical as mahogany gets.