{"product_id":"james-goodall-olive-grand-concert-5145","title":"James Goodall Olive Grand Concert","description":"James Goodall started building guitars in the early 1970s and, over the next fifty years, became known as one of North America's most highly regarded small-shop luthiers. He had various shops around California during the 1970s and ‘80s, and then in Hawaii from around 1992 until 2009. Goodall, his son, and their team have since returned to Fort Bragg, California and continue to build guitars based on James' original designs, but on a slightly larger scale. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThis Grand Concert is a Hawaii-built Goodall which features olive wood back and sides and a master-grade Port Oxford cedar top with scalloped bracing. The guitar is meticulously crafted with mitred wooden purflings, bloodwood bindings, and abalone details. At 15” wide and 4-1\/4” deep at the endpin, this Goodall is about the size of an OM but with deeper sides. It is built with a 25.4” scale and a 1-3\/4” nut and is squarely aimed at the fingerstyle player. It offers an open, dry and throaty voice with a cavernous low end resonance and full-sounding trebles. String balance is excellent, and the guitar is a real joy to play. It's voicing marries some of what we love about lightly built old guitars, with the fidelity modern fingerstyle players expect. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThe neck is carved of quarter-sawn maple and has a fairly chunky-feeling C to D profile. The 1st fret depth is .868”, and thickness at the 9th fret it .901”. String spacing at the saddle is 2-1\/4”. Bloodwood-bound ebony fretboard with abalone slotted diamond inlays, bound headstock overlay to match the body, with abalone Goodall logo. Gotoh 510 low sheen brass tuning machines with acrylic faux horn buttons. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThe guitar is in near-perfect condition and has been carefully set-up in our shop for fingerstyle playing with 12-54 strings. Apart from a ¼” dent in the lower center of the top the guitar is blemish-free. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nWith original hardshell case\r\n","brand":"JAMES GOODALL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614230634862,"sku":"210000007114","price":7295.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/3660\/5550\/files\/17243570155152James_Goodall_OGC-0824-2Main.jpg?v=1790971719","url":"https:\/\/folkwaymusic.com\/products\/james-goodall-olive-grand-concert-5145","provider":"Folkway Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}