Celtic theme Irish bouzouki
This is an Irish bouzouki with a Celtic knot-style bird on the headstock, and triangle shaped Celtic knots for fingerboard markers and at three main points on the rosette. The bird inlay is brass, mother of pearl and abalone, and the knots are mother of pearl. The rosette, bridge, binding, and headstock covering are ebony, the top is Sitka spruce, and the back and sides are paduak. The neck is a laminate of three sections of maple and two of purpleheart. The fingerboard is rosewood. 4 courses are tuned GDAE. Chrome tuners with ivoroid buttons. The bridge is a pin bridge with boxwood pins and ebony dots. Completed in April, 2011.
Greg Ryan has posted an excellent YouTube video of him performing On Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore accompanied by this bouzouki: On Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
You can find more of Greg’s music at this website: http://www.gregryansingsirish.com/
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FINISHED DIMENSIONS (in inches):
- Scale = 22 17/64 (25″ scale minus first two frets)
- Nut width = 1 3/8 (34mm)
- String width = 1 3/32
- Headstock nut to tip = 6 7/16
- Headstock width = 2 18/32
- Headstock thickness = 15/32 (includes padauk/ebony facing)
- Frets: 20
- Width at 12 fret = 1 9/16
- Saddle string width = 1 11/16
- Neck thickness before heel without fingerboard = 3/4
- Neck stands above body at pocket = 1/4
- Neck joins body at the 13th fret
- Mortise dimensions = 20mm X 20mm
- Body thickness at neck join = 3 3/32
- Body thickness at tail = 3 11/32
- Body width at neck join = 1 5/8
- Body width at bout = 13 13/16
- Total body length = 15 11/16
- Soundhole diameter = 3 9/32
- Rosette width = 5/16
- From 20th fret to bottom of bouzouki = 12 3/16
- From 20th fret to top of bridge = 7
- From 20th fret to bottom of bridge = 8 5/16
- Width of bridge = 5 1/8
- Top edge of bridge to top edge of saddle = 5/32
- Saddle width = 3/16
- Neck thickness at nut (with fingerboard) = 7/8