Genuine Mahogany Top
It features an air-dried genuine mahogany top for a fast and crisp response, perfect for fingerstyle.
THE CALETTA, MAHOGANY Back & Sides / MAHOGANY Top
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All-Mahogany guitars have a very distinct tone and a touch response quality that is typically appreciated by fingerstyle players. The mahogany top delivers a fast and crisp response, from the softest touch, up to more aggressive approaches. The fundamental tones are pronounced and well-defined, with the harmonics a little behind in the balance, offering a sense of detailed dryness that makes for a guitar that is really suited to recording. |
The separation and definition between the notes and the strings are very clear, with remarkable articulation, even in complex chordal harmonies and extended arpeggios. |
Depending on the player's touch, the Caletta All Mahogany can be sweet and delicate, but can also morph into a tougher and more aggressive guitar, with a signature ‘midrange bark', well suited to blues, ragtime and slide playing. |
HIGHLIGHTS
Caletta Size
The Caletta unique body design strikes a perfect balance between sweetness and power. The 14 5/8” lower bout allows the fundamental notes to develop full-bodied and punchy, while the narrow waist and the smaller shoulders emphasize the crispness of the upper range and the development of harmonics.
Hand Voicing
The soundboard is pre-voiced before the final assembly of the guitar. Then, once strung and tested, the inner side and the bracing are further fine-tuned to create perfect, desired tonal balance, underpinning the individual sound character of the guitar. Each guitar, every guitar, one at the time.
Traditional X Brace
Fully respecting the Caletta's vintage heritage, the soundboard is braced in an X-pattern, fine-tuned and customized in the dimensions, weights and scalloping pattern of each brace.
Nitrocellulose Finish
The vintage recipe for achieving the best looking, thinnest and most resonant finish, is still the best technique. Nothing compares to an adequately sprayed and buffed, traditional nitrocellulose lacquer, the only finish that ages together with the wood, merges into its molecules, and allows them to vibrate freely. We finish the Caletta in the same manner as the classics of the 50s -- with a very thin nitrocellulose layer that merges into the wood grain.
Alpine Spruce Braces
An excellent wood for braces, it combines light weight and stiffness, to achieve remarkable volume and projection, with excellent headroom and minimal compression.
Hot Hide Glue
We mix and use our own hot hide glue recipe, to achieve the strongest chemical bond with the minimal thickness of the glue layer itself. Hot hide glue is not easy to work with, or economically convenient, but it guarantees that the different woods will virtually integrate into each other, contributing to the resonant qualities of the finished guitar.
Deep Tenon, Void-Free Neck Joint
Another of the original design features of the Caletta, our proprietary neck joint ensures optimal stability of the neck onto the body, thanks to a gluing surface that is about quadruple that of the surface in a traditional dovetail joint.
Locked Neck Angle
The substantial, yet lightweight block with its back ‘tongue’ further reinforces the neck joint, and locks the neck angle into a stable, long-lasting position.
Upper Bout Braces
Two upper transverse braces support the last portion of the fretboard over the top, and guard against any possible top deformation in the delicate upper bout area.
Light Build
The goal to build the lightest guitar possible, without compromising on the integral strength of the design, is achieved with a set of solid back and side sheets, only 2mm in thickness. The neck and kerfing are carved from Spanish Cedar to further reduce weight.
Ultrathin Pickguard
We selected an ultrathin pickguard, durable enough to protect the top finish, but also light and inconspicuous enough not to hinder the top’s movements.
Premium Casing
A virtually indestructible, custom-built Ameritage case will protect the Caletta against (almost) all odds.
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