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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