Gaiero OMC Swiss Alpine Spruce/Fenland Bog Oak

Description

This Gaiero OMC (Orchestra Model + Florentine Cutaway) is created with luthier Mark Gaiero's own curvature and measurement, the smallest OM than Somogyi or other apprentices' OMs.

Mark applied Somogyi-Esque modern voicing to this body and tweaked that voicing to achieve more headroom. It can handle deep arpeggio to pretty strong strums with ease. Beautiful harmonics are a plus.

A Swiss Alpine Spruce top paired with a set of Bog Oak that grew in the Fenland District of eastern England around 5,000 years ago on the back and sides for the body, a roasted flame maple from the midwestern US with Katalox bridge and fretboard made a great-sounding guitar, and the greener environment with these Non-Endangered Species.

The aesthetic appointments are genuinely unique, but subtlety is the key here.
Once the neck material was chosen, that became the basis for the remaining decorative elements: the radial rosette, top purfling, fretboard purfling, 12th fret marker, headstock veneer, and end graft. For a splash of color, there’s a thin red/black purfling line that appears here and there.

Spec

• Model: OMC (OM+Florentine Cutaway)
• Top: Swiss Alpine Spruce
• B/S: Bog Oak
• Binding: Black Rock-lite
• Rosette: Roasted Flame maple radial ring, red/black purfling
• Neck: Honey Roasted Flame Maple
• Scale: 641mm
• Nut Width: 44.5mm
• String Space: 57.2mm
• Fretboard: Katalox+Roasted Maple Purfling
• Side Fretboard Marker: Red dots
• Purfling: Roasted maple/black purfling
• Frets: Evo Gold
• Bridge: Katalox
• Heelcap: Black Rock-lite
• End Wedge: Roasted maple
• Head: Roasted Flame Maple, Rocklite binding, red/black purfling
• Front Headplate: Roasted Flame Maple Veneer
• Back Headplate: Bog Oak
• Nut: Bone
• Saddle: Bone
• Tuner: Gotoh 510 Mini Black/Black
• Finish:  CrystaLac Brite Tone
• Case:  Visenut Case

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