CRW 14-R De Luxe

This 14-fret Crossover version is a hybrid nylon-string guitar with all the characteristics of a traditional classical guitar, enhanced by specific features reminiscent of the electric or folk worlds (narrower neck at the nut, more compact body, etc.).
It offers rich, warm acoustic characteristics, polyphonic clarity and nuanced, dynamic playing. It’s an eclectic guitar in terms of styles, allowing you to tackle the classical register, as well as jazz, bossa nova and more…
This model features a Lattice bracing system derived from the classic 70th model.

The lattice dam principle was invented by Australian luthier Greg Smallman, whose aim at the time was to make the soundboard as thin as possible, so that it would vibrate as freely as possible. Since traditional bracing could not support such a thin top, the luthier decided to develop a new bracing system made of wood reinforced with carbon rods. Convinced that vibrations from the top are lost in the guitar’s sides and back, he also decided to make these 2 components heavier, so as to render them virtually inert. With this concept, he succeeded in making the soundboard react like a drumhead, with the result of great projection and power of sound.
However, it has to be said that this concept, which favors power and projection to the detriment of the other primordial elements that make up the instrument’s main characteristics, such as timbre, balance and musicality, ultimately produces a guitar with a distorted timbre and a very linear sound that makes it difficult to play with nuance.

Aiming exclusively at a clientele whose motto is to play guitar to make music, and not the other way around, I decided to use the lattice bracing principle and develop it further, in order to provide all the technical features that a guitar worthy of the name must have. The result is the CRW14, equipped with a specific Lattice system combined with specially designed components to correct the shortcomings of the Australian Lattice.

The CRW14-R Lattice is therefore the fruit of extensive research, enabling us to benefit from the advantages of the lattice system in terms of power and projection, while preserving the DNA of the traditional classical guitar in terms of tone quality, balance and musicality.

The Fishman Pro Blend system combines 2 types of sources: a piezo sensor under the saddle and an air pickup positioned in the body, offering a very broad palette of sound.