WITHDRAWN - Simon Fay Model One - £11,999 now £8,999

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Trades - Huber Surfmeister, Bartel Sugarland or Starwood, Two Rock Studio Signature.

Here’s an opportunity to own a rare and exquisite Simon Fay Model One.

Simon is one of the great modern luthiers and he focuses all of his attention and expertise on making just this one model.

The guitar was completed in August 2017 for the Acoustic Music Company (TAMCO) in Brighton where I worked for a few years until the shop’s owner retired. 

It was one of a handful of my favourite fingerstyle guitars - from more than 200 high-end handmade single luthier instruments - that I played during my time at TAMCO. I missed out on it first time round but managed to purchase it 4 years ago.

It features the following upgrades over a standard Model One:

• a Mastergrade Engelmann Spruce top
• increasingly rare Black & White Ebony back and sides
• a Wenge tile rosette
• a Florentine cutaway

Other features:

• nut width of 1 25/32”
• saddle spacing of 2 1/4”
• scale length of 25"
• beautiful and precise Nicolo Alessi tuners
• African Ebony fretboard and bridge
• Honduran Mahogany neck
• Wenge headstock veneer
• Ebony and Maple binding/purfling
• Evo Gold fretwire
• Fossilised bone nut, saddle and bridge pins
• gorgeous and very robust $1,000 Ameritage AME-S-11 hard case

I’ve spent many happy hours playing and writing with this inspiring guitar but I have kept in it perfect condition in a humidified case.

It needs a new home as increasingly arthritic hands are restricting me to playing smaller guitars with narrower necks.

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Just set up by Nick Mear of Mear & Gray.

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Wish I had the cash. Just had a nw boiler fitted andI've some dental bills on the way. 

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Massive price drop

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