Sound Pure's Take
This guitar is probably the best sounding guitar I've ever heard. It projects wonderfully and on top of it all its beautiful with a striking bear claw sitka spruce top and Ziricote fingerboard
From Bourgeois Guitars
The Bourgeois BK Slope D, is modeled after a legendary 1995 Bourgeois Slope D dubbed "The Banjo Killer" by Nashville flatpicking ace, Bryan Sutton. Bryan's original Banjo Killer has been used for numerous stage and recording performances, and was featured on the "Great Guitars" page of Acoustic Guitar magazine in October of 2000. Like the original, the new BK Slope D features Premium Bearclaw Sitka Spruce and Figured Mahogany back and sides, Brazilian Rosewood headstock, fretboard, bridge, and bridge plate, and Adirondack Spruce bracing. Additional features include ivoroid binding, snakehead headstock, 1 23/32" nut width, ebony bridge pins, Nickel /Ivoroid Waverly tuners and a natural finish.
The first 30 guitars were introduced as a Limited Edition and will be signed and numbered by Bryan Sutton and Dana Bourgeois.
Here's What Bryan Sutton has to say about the guitar:
"From the first time I played the Slope-D Bourgeois that would come to be known as the "Banjo Killer", I was amazed at the range of tone and volume the guitar could produce. The guitar always seems to be to able to handle any dynamic level of play.
I can hear the guitar clearly in a loud jam session without feeling like I have to overplay and also enjoy a full and sustained tone when I want to play softly. Dana has recaptured that magic with the new BK model. Congratulations Dana on 30 years of great guitars. "
Here's What Dana Bourgeois has to say about it:
" The BK Slope D known as the Banjo Killer has a deep, broad tone. Through wood selection and voicing, we push it in the direction of a bigger bottom end, a "lush" top end, and greater volume, similar to the characteristics of Bryan's original Banjo Killer. When I first started making slope shouldered Dreadnoughts, I went for something as different as possible from the balanced and focused sound of my standard Dreadnought. The Banjo Killer gets me back to that original idea."
The Limited Edition Series will be completed in November of 2006. An unsigned version of the model will continue as the BK Slope D.
Model: SD Banjo Killer - Legacy Series
Serial: 8814
Year:
Top: Bearclaw Figured Aged Tone Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides: Figured Mahogany
Scale Length: Long
Rosette: Wood Rings
Backstrip: DB Signature
Endpiece Inlay: Body Wood
Body Binding: Ivoroid
Purfling: Black/Maple/Black with Back and Sides
Head Shape: Bourgeois Snake Headstock
Head Veneer: Ziricote
Head Inlay: Mother of Pearl Bourgeois Logo
Head Binding: None
Fretboard Wood: Ziricote
Fretboard Inlay: Tiny MOP Dots
Fretboard Binding: Ivoroid
Nut Width: 1 23/32"
Heel Cap: None
Tuners: Wverly Nickel/Ivoroid
Bridge: Belly Bridge
Pins: Ebony with Pearl dot
Pickguard: Celluloid Tortoise
Pickup: None
Label: Standard
Glue: Standard
Neck Finish: Satin
Headstock Finish: High Gloss
Body Finish: High Gloss
Top Color: Nautral
Cutaway: None
Options: Double Scalloped "Banjo Killer" Bracing
Case: Hardshell
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
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