Lauren Merritt Cutaway OOO Guitar


This OOO-style guitar features a Sitka spruce top and mahogany for the back, sides, and neck. The fingerboard, bridge, and accent pieces are rosewood, and the one-of-a-kind inlay scheme uses hand-cut twig inlays of juniper and mother-of-pearl.

The neck meets the body at the twelfth fret, resulting in a central bridge placement that produces maximum response from the top. This guitar's tone is snappy and alive!

I've installed a Fishman Acoustic Matrix Natural I pickup and internal preamp, making this guitar stage-ready for the performing musician or an amplified living-room jam.

  • Grover open-back tuners
  • Snakewood bridge pins
  • Rosewood fingerboard, bridge, and accents
  • Mother-of-pearl fret markers and headstock inlay
  • Juniper rosette
  • Fishman Acoustic Matrix Natural I pickup
  • French polish shellac finish
  • Ebony strap button on treble side of heel
  • Two-way adjustable truss rod
  • Elixir Polyweb Medium Strings
  • Unbleached bone nut and saddle
  • 1 7/8" nut width
  • 2 1/4" string spacing at saddle
  • Action at 12th fret (1st string): 2mm
  • Action at 12th fret (6th string): 2.6mm

View the construction gallery for this guitar (and for another OOO completed previously), or listen to an audio sample recorded using the Fishman Acoustic Matrix pickup.

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