Specifications:

        Timbers:    

      Scale length:
      650 mm

        Sound board:
        Cedar or Spruce

      Neck width at the nut:
      51 mm

        Back and sides:
        South American rosewood
        (Arched Back)

      Overall length:
      1000 mm

        Finger board:
        Black Ebony

      Body length:
      490 mm

        Bridge:
        South American rosewood

      Body width:
      upper bout 283 mm
      waist          240 mm
      lower bout 374 mm

        Bracing:
        Carbon fibre reinforced lattice

      Body depth:
      increasing from 98 mm to 105 mm

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Jim Redgate, although a relative new comer to guitar making is one of the most successful.
His beautifully crafted no-nonsense guitars are rapidly gaining great popularity especially in the United States of America.

Jim, like many good luthiers came to guitar making from a background of instrument repairs. He started building instruments in 1985 basing his early instruments on the quality guitars he serviced.

His guitars have Spruce or Cedar top braced with Carbon-fibre and balsa wood in a unique honeycomb pattern.

The South American rosewood back is brace-less and arched to facilitate greater volume and projection, his guitars also feature a unique rosette crafted from 4000 pieces of wood.

Jim Redgate is a very good guitarist and holds a degree in Music Performance from the Elder Conservatorium.

Some famous guitarists who have purchased Redgate guitars are: Hucky Eichelman, Earl Klug etc.