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My Nigel K Forster Session King is up for sale. I’m having a real clear out due to my current focus on nylon strings. I’m the first owner – I commissioned this from Nigel back in April 2015 after hearing the demo videos on YouTube. There’s a full AGF build thread for this guitar, unfortunately sans pictures due to the subsequent Photobucket debacle:
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=384963&highlight=forster
Skip to the end of the thread and you’ll find a few videos of me attempting to play it. You can read my very positive contemporaneous comments about the guitar there but, in summary, this has a thin lattice braced top with very stiff and heavy sides, aka Greg Smallman applied to steel-strings. The result is a very loud and responsive guitar with a lot of characteristics akin to a lattice braced classical.
Mine is an upgraded model with an ebony fretboard and spruce top; Nigels original spec was a mahogany top with rosewood fretboard. It also comes with a Hiscox Pro II case. Everything else is as per Nigel’s spec – Cuban mahogany back and sides and the super cool distressed finish.
Nigel is no longer making the Session King except as a tenor guitar. Originally intended as a more affordable way into his instruments, he told me that the hassle of making them etc. ultimately didn’t justify the asking price. Pity for us, but a man’s got to eat…
I’m looking for £1500, which is peanuts for a guitar from a luthier as well known and as capable as Nigel, but I need to move some guitars to make way for nylon strings. You can play this in St. Albans or London. PM me if interested.
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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I'll check when I get home - I seem to be permanently at work these days (so sorry re the tardy PMs guys).
46 mm at the nut
58 mm at the 12th fret
http://www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/loud-acoustic-guitars/
This design is coming from the Smallman classical tradition: Very, very stiff back and sides and a very light top so that the top acts like a drum head. That's the principal reason why the guitar is so loud and responsive.
Smallman uses 18mm birch play for his sides! Birch ply or not, the cost is around 25K per guitar...
I'll post the other neck dimensions when I get home.
Having said that, I don't find Les Pauls' uncomfortable, because I play sitting down. The SessionKing is fine on my left or right knee, and it doesn't move around.
"Neck profile as per that lovely Martin Simpson scantling guitar – I’d be happy to go a shave thicker though; i.e.
Nut width = 46mm
Neck width at fret 12 = 58 mm
Neck depth behind fret 1 = 20 mm
Neck depth behind fret 9 = 22 mm
Nut string spacing = 38 mm
Bridge/saddle string spacing = 57 mm"
Hence the new Avian Songbird fan fret.
So interest from here too, Steve. I'll clear this month by after the weekend, so will be back in touch next week. May well be gone by then.
Please see PM. Cheers Barry.