Dejan Krsmanovic playing my Big Sound. Great player. Dejan YouTube
The concept Big Sound Building many Gipsy guitars and understanding more and more the acoustic behind idea it, I decided to make an instrument with most complete sound. I think the concept of the gipsy guitar can open new sounds for many other styles.
Multi-functional This new instrument should be very loud with full sound and well balanced. It should be possible to play fingerstyle and even classical repertoire on it. Not identical to the classical guitar, but a steel string with the balance and dynamics that you need on a classical guitar. All energy for the sound With this in mind the idea Big Sound was born. It has the same shape as a traditional gypsy guitar but with a wider sound hole at a higher location. This results in a larger active part of the top, around the bridge. A thin top with two light braces that carry the bridge and a thin light bridge of rosewood produce a unique, loud and all round guitar sound.
The loudest guitar I've ever made Its key features are: - an extremely stiff back construction for great reflection, - a tailpiece brace to reduce all the loss of energy, - an ebony and carbon reinforced neck The result is awesome. A very loud, multi-functional steel string. Contact me for your personal wishes.
A Custom made Bigsound or Carl Bludts
In black and white
The headstock with tuners
Tuners are from DerJung
Making the rosette inlay, all by hand
Every piece with the jigsaw.
a few hours later...
The body on the bench
scrapping the bindings
A joint hard to make by hand.
The neck and body waiting for the great moment
Carl with his first notes
Carl Bludts with his'brand new custom Bigsund
The spruce top with phernambuq bridge and rosette
The Selmer style body with my Bigsound soundhole
Also the tailpiece is with phernambuq
Watch the beautiful red phernambuq in the rosette
The sides are flamed maple
Maple sides and the red phernambuq bindings
The dome top
Headstock also phernambuq
Custom made Bigsound Gypsy Guitar for fingerstyle
Back is flamed maple over 30 years old
The wood choice was made with Carl.
The Bigsound for Carl
12 fret joint. custom 18 frets total, I can go to 24
The wide soundhole. This guitar is very loud
The label inside
On request no marks on the fingerbord
In black and white
The headstock with tuners
Tuners are from DerJung
Making the rosette inlay, all by hand
Custom made special for fingerstyle Carl is a Belgian guitarplayer, and a guitar lover. He plays many styles. He wished to have a gypsy style guitar with a more allround feeling. He plays with a thumb pick and with his fingers. He needs a full sound, loud and bright. For fingerstyle jazz.
The instrument We decided to go for a 64 cm scale and very good playability.The neck is 46 mm at the 0 fret and 57 wide on the 14'th fret. The fingerboard is radius 12". The action is low, 2.0 mm at the 12th fret. The woods The back and sides are very beautiful flamed maple. The nack is also maple. The top European spruce. For the bindings I used phernambuq, a very beautiful color red/brown.