Eric Schoenberg has had some great luthiers build guitars to his designs over the years, and Alan Perlman did this one.

It’s light as a feather and loud as all get-out. 12 frets to the body, so you get that middle-of-the-lower-bout bridge placement that’s optimized for highly-articulated fingerstyle play, but you have the Venetian cutaway that restores access to the upper frets. Lovely wide fingerboard, as well. A real dreamboat of a guitar.

• top: Adirondack spruce

• b&s: AAA Koa

• bindings: maple

• bridge: ebony

• fingerboard: ebony

• nut & saddle: bone

• nut with: 1-13/16”

• scale: 25.5”

• strings spacing: 2-5/16”