Iris MS-00 Mahogany

$3695 CAD
For more details contact us at info@folkwaymusic.com or 855-772-0424.
Inspired by the L-00 models built by Gibson in the 1930s, the MS-00 features similar dimensions and scale length to a guitar built between 1933 and 1942 but is built with Iris’ unique top bracing that mixes scalloped tone bars and straight X brace for a perfect mix of warmth and power. This MS features solid linings, too, which was a feature of the L-00s that Gibson built in 1933

The all-mahogany MS-00 is an evolution of the L-00. It’s a modern rethink of a vintage guitar that never was – a 14 fret mahogany top L-00 – and it’s really exciting. There were L-00s with mahogany tops in the 12 fret era, but after the switch to 14 fret necks in 1933 all but a small handful of guitars were built with spruce tops. Mahogany is a wonderful top wood; it has a different tone signature than spruce, but can be equally as lovely to play, and the new all-mahogany MS-00 is a great example of this. The guitar is dry and woody, open and forward, and offers a clean and clear fundamental presence with fewer overtones than its spruce-topped siblings. While the midrange is accentuated in this version of the MS-00, it doesn’t come at the cost of bass-end bigness or full trebles. We’re big fans.

This example features a dark mahogany finish and is tastefully bound with tortoiseshell celluloid bordered with white purflings. It’s built with a comfortably large, soft-V 30’s profile neck that has a 1-3/4” nut and 1st fret depth of .960”. The string spread at the bridge is 2-5/16”. Bone nut and saddle, vintage style three-on-a-plate brass Golden Age tuners, and simplified Iris headstock logo.

With hardshell case