Touchstone is an innovative series created through a collaboration between Bourgeois Guitars and Eastman Guitars. This special model is a high-quality model that goes beyond the concept of cost performance and has been tuned by Infini Custom Works. Bourgeois Guitars is a top American guitar brand, comparable to Collings and Santa Cruz. This is Touchstone, an innovative series created through a collaboration between Bourgeois Guitars and Eastman Guitars. The tops are hand-voiced by a luthier in Beaujois' home country and finally inspected by Dana Beaujois himself. Then, assembled by Eastman's skilled craftsmen who have thoroughly studied Beaujois' philosophy and construction methodology, this truly innovative series offers outstanding cost performance and high quality. This is an original Hartman Guitars modified model of Touchstone's popular "Signature D" series, customized by Infini Custom Works. Fujioka from Infini has thoroughly set up the equipment so that you can enjoy everything from percussive slam playing to beautiful melodic solo guitar!! Infini Custom Works' dual pickup systems are individually handcrafted to suit the individual characteristics of each guitar. "I want to produce a powerful palm sound with slam playing..." "I want to fully express the delicate nuances of a beautiful, melodic solo guitar..." Don't miss out on this special guitar, customized by our staff to meet the needs of fingerstyle guitarists! The Touchstone Signature is the flagship model of the Touchstone series, made with luxurious and rare Madagascar rosewood. This instrument is a Signature model that features a traditional body style and Dana Bourgeois' design sense. It features a luxurious specification with a torified Sitka spruce top, Adirondack spruce bracing, Madagascar rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard and bridge, and Schaller pegs. The sound is also excellent, rivaling that of the all-USA-made Beaujois. It features the thick, lustrous fundamental tone and voluminous midrange characteristic of Beaujois, as well as beautiful, lingering overtones and a long sustain without being too assertive. All of these are blended in exquisite balance, producing a pure tone that brings out the player's nuances. The rare Madagascar rosewood is used for the back and sides, resulting in a wonderful tone that is hard and brilliant, yet has a unique sweetness to its high-quality overtones, which are exquisitely intertwined with the forward-reaching fundamental tone that is unique to Beaujois, making this a very attractive series. Anfini Custom Works dual pickup system delivers exceptional performance for fingerstyle playing. In order to faithfully reproduce the guitar's original, wonderful tone even in line sound, it comes pre-installed with a contact piezo x magnetic dual pickup system, which is extremely effective for fingerstyle playing. This type of dual system is popular with many fingerstyle guitarists, including Andy McKee and Kotaro Oshio. By blending the vivid acoustic guitar sound obtained from a contact pickup with the thick, forward sound that is characteristic of a magnetic pickup, you can create a vivid, thick line sound that is ideal for fingerstyle playing. The contact piezo on the main side (tip side) uses "Enfini Custom Works R-Zero Contact Pro BACNT". This is an original contact pickup that is handcrafted from piezo elements and installed by Mitsunori Fujioka, president of Infini Custom Works, a company renowned for producing some of the best acoustic guitar pickup systems in the industry, to suit the characteristics of each individual guitar. This time, we have selected the BACNT, a bass-enhanced model that is also suitable for slam playing techniques! The extremely lightweight design allows for a vivid acoustic sound, powerful bass, and palm sound without compromising the sound of the guitar itself. The magnetic pickup is a DiMarzio DP234. Compared to the standard "SUNRISE S-2" in dual systems, it lacks a bit of low-end punch, but it produces a silky, forward-thinking sound that emphasizes chord tones and melody lines, making it a pickup that has been gaining attention in the solo guitar world in recent years as a new standard magnetic pickup! We asked Mr. Fujioka to set up the contact and magnetic pickups, and the setup is designed to bring out the full potential of both pickups. The magnetic is also designed to be easily removable, allowing it to be used for recording without interfering with the live sound. By blending these two excellent pickups, you can achieve the wide range, nuanced reproduction, and rich sound that is characteristic of acoustic guitars. From percussive slamming of the body to ballads with beautiful melodies, this will be a great advantage for fingerstyle guitarists! ※※※ Since it is a passive dual pickup system, it is used by connecting it to a preamplifier with 2-channel input using a stereo cable. This guitar does not come with a stereo cable, preamp, etc. We can also provide information and suggestions on peripheral equipment and how to use it. For more information, please feel free to contact Akita, the Hartman Guitars representative.Body Shape: D Top Wood: Alaskan Sitka Spruce Back Sides:Madagascar Rosewood Neck: Mahogany Fretboard: Ebony Bridge: Ebony Traditional Scale Length: 25.5 (647.7 mm) Nut/Bridge Width: Nut-1 23/32(43.7mm) Bridge-2.2(55.8mm) Saddle: Bone Tuners: Schaller Grand Tune Nickel Pins: Ivoroid Finish: High Gloss Bracing: Adirondack Spruce Tip(Contact) PU: Enfini Custom Works R-Zero Contact Pro BACNT Ring (magnetic) PU: DiMarzio DP234 Case: Hard Case
