Description of Pimentel M-1

• The M-1 is Built with Honduras Mahogany back and sides with either a Sitka Spruce or Western red cedar top and East Indian Fingerboard, bridge and binding.
• The Nutt and saddle are made with natural bone.
• The Rosettes are custom made in our shop out of dyed and natural color maples and Holly woods.
• The finish  on the M-1 is  Nitrocellulose lacquers .
  
  Retails at $1,200 and $189.00 for a hardshell case.
  Cutaways and electronics can be added.
  
  The M-1 is built with American or big-leaf mahogany, Swietenia macrophylla, a neotropical hardwood found from southern Mexico through Central America and throughout much of the Amazon basin, including Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.
• Because it is one of the hardest woods that grows in the neotropics and one of the most stable hardwoods for the necks of guitars and beautiful tonewoods for the back and sides of guitars...
• The top of the M-1 is built with Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis, also known as Tideland s pruce, Coast Spruce, and Yellow Spruce, is the largest of the world's spruces and is one of the most prominent forest trees in stands along the northwest coast of North America. Sitka spruce is the largest of all spruces. It commonly is 125 to 180 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet in diameter. Sitka accentuates the warm round aspects of the guitar's tone. It is the most frequent choice in classical or acoustic steel string guitars.
• The M-1 is also built with Western Redcedar, Thuja plicata, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen  coniferous tree in the cypress family cupressacease, native to the northwestern United States. Cedar is most commonly used for fingerstyle instruments as it responds quickly and with good volume to a light attack. It is also very well suited to open or lowered tension tunings as they require the same qualities for good separation and definition. Cedar produces a darker and very beautiful sustaining tone but not as projective as the spruce`s.
• The fingerboard and binding of the M-1 is East Indian Rosewood East Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia and Dalbergia sissoo) emcompassing 2 different species from India. East Indian rosewood is resinous, and generally more stable than most other rosewood species.