Our first guitar from Cornwall-based British luthier Brendan O'Gorman is his Moir model (pronounced moy-er). This model is Brendan's take on a OM, but with a couple of design tweaks including a wider lower bout and a 12 or 13-fret neck-to-body join. This particular build has the unusual combination of a 12-fret neck join and a fan fret design, which provides not only a big, balanced tone with a tight bass presence, but also a real sweetness.
We love it when tonewood has a story to it, and the Lost Tunnel redwood top comes from a redwood-lined tunnel from an abandoned train line in rural Northern California, found by luthiers Butch Boswell and Adam Mendel on a discovery mission inspired by the wood found in Tunnel 13 and Tunnel 14 in Oregon.
The redwood is paired with Indian rosewood for the back and sides and there is a fantastic decorative theme of snakewood throughout the guitar including the headstock overlay, purfling and rosette. The darkness of the rosewood and redwood are wonderfully contrasted with the pale maple binding.
The guitar includes a Hiscox Pro II fitted hard case in an ivory-coloured finish.
Model: Moir
Top: Lost tunnel redwood
Back and sides: Indian rosewood
Neck: Honduran mahogany
Fingerboard: Indian rosewood
Bridge: Indian rosewood
Decoration: Maple binding, snakewood headstock overlay, purfling and rosette
Scale lengths: 655mm at low E to 635mm at the high E
Tuners: Gotoh 510 (21-1 ratio)
Frets: Evo Gold with semihemispherical ends
Nut width: 45mm
String spacing at saddle: 58mm
Fretboard radius: 16”
Finish: polyurethane
Case: Hiscox Pro II hard shell case in ivory-coloured finish
