Pickard Acoustics:
Handbuilt Guitars and other Musical Instruments.
Welcome to the Pickard Acoustics Website.
Pickard Acoustics offers a range of handbuilt steel-strung guitars, and mandolin family instruments, all featuring a unique bracing system which produces a bright tone and even response. Each instrument is built using solid wood construction and employing a variety of tone-woods and spruce tops.
Six-string guitars are available in three basic sizes (small, medium and large) and three different body shapes or series. Coupled with the choice of 12 or 14 frets to the body this gives a range of 24 different six-string guitars plus 6 twelve-string guitars!
Mandolins are available in two different body shapes or series.
Any instrument can be customised to your own specifications in terms of inlays, decorative bindings and purflings.
All instruments are steel-strung, 'flat-top', 'flat-back' and constructed from selected, solid tonewoods. Mahogany is usually used for the neck, blocks and kerfing while strutting, bracing and tops are spruce. All tops feature a bracing system unique to Pickard Acoustics. Fingerboard and bridge are either ebony or rosewood and back and sides are usually mahogany or rosewood. A variety of other woods is available especially for the back and sides. The nut and saddle are bone and the bindings are wood. Mother-of-pearl is the usual inlay material. A fully adjustable truss rod is installed in each instrument as are quality machine heads. The finish is lacquer and is applied and polished by hand.
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