Kostal 00 brazilian rosewood straight grain | 2019
Kostal 00 Brazilian Rosewood Straight Grain.
This exceptional piece was built from the "private reserve" of Jason's treasured Brazilian Rosewood. Straight grain like this is pretty close to impossible to find nowadays and is the pinnacle of tone woods used by Martin on their pre-war instruments. We went with a very unique black top as a tribute to the pre-war classics that inspired this build. Comes it it's stunning white Hofee case. Pictures courtesy of Kostalguitars.com.
Jason has a few years of waiting list so if you would order something similar to this today, you will probably get it around 2026 ish ... Skip the line !
This is how Jason describes this model:
" Redesigned from the ground up, this guitar is the result of two years of development after an additional four years of building the MD and OM. The time spent building and listening to the OM and MD gave me an intimate understanding of how I was building my guitars and what I wanted the OO to do. I redesigned the bracing, depth, size, dome, and soundhole on the guitar to create a short scale, 12 fret guitar with all benefits of the OM in a smaller package. Despite ...