This is the Crafter AL-ROSE PLUS Autumn Leaves Grand Auditorium acoustic electric guitar – a superb guitar by any measure.
The Autumn Leaves Rose Plus guitar is a limited edition model built to the highest standard by Crafter’s most experienced Luthiers.
• Hand Crafted in South Korea
• Grand Auditorium Body
• Solid Engelmann Spruce Top
• Solid Indian Rosewood Back
• Indian Rosewood Sides
• Wider Neck
• Deluxe Gold Hardware
• Beautifully Inlayed Wooden Autumn Leaves Position Markers and Soundhole Inlay
• Scalloped ‘T’ Brace
• 25.5″ Scale Length
• L.R. Baggs Element Pickup and LR-T DV (LCT Tuner + Notch Filter) PreAmp
• Full Gloss Lacquer finish
• PRO-SCM Setup
Crafter may seem to be a relatively new Brand on the Australian Guitar landscape however, you may be surprised to know that Crafter is actually one of the UK’s biggest selling guitar brands where it has delighted and inspired musicians at all levels for more than thirty years!
The secret of Crafter’s success is immediately apparent with superb handcrafted build quality and the use of premium materials along with superb tone and playability normally associated with instruments costing a great deal more. It’s a fact that Crafter’s instruments exude quality at every level.
This Autumn Leaves Rose Plus model was released as a limited edition model celebrating Crafter’s Anniversary.
Crafter’ Guitars offer amazing value for money with guitars that not only play and sound amazing, one’s like this are also works of art! The Autumn Leaves Rosewood Plus Grand Auditorium Acoustic Electric model is simply gorgeous. Featuring a premium solid Englemann Spruce top beautifully matched to a solid Indian Rosewood back and Indian Rosewood sides, the Autumn Leaves Rose Plus is a guitar that you won’t want to put down.
This hand crafted model was only built in small numbers and can be hard to find.
While the quality and craftsmanship are second to none, we will still give it a little extra love and include our PRO-SCM setup prior to shipping.
The Crafter Autumn Leaves Rose Plus Acoustic Electric guitar comes complete with a hard case.
CRAFTER AL-ROSE PLUS AUTUMN LEAVES SPECIFICATIONS
- MODEL NAME: AL-ROSE PLUS Autumn Leaves
- BODY STYLE: Grand Auditorium
- TOP: Solid Engelmann Spruce
- BACK: Solid Indian Rosewood
- SIDES: Indian Rosewood
- NECK: Mahogany
- FINGERBOARD & BRIDGE: Indian Rosewood
- FINGERBOARD & SOUND HOLE INLAY: Wooden Marquetry Autumn Leaves Position Markers & Soundhole Inlay
- MACHINE HEADS: Deluxe Gold Tuners with Bean Buttons (18:1)
- ELECTRONICS: LR-T DX (LCD Tuner + Notch Filter) PreAmp with L.R. Baggs Element Pick-up
- STRINGS: .011 – .052″
- COLORS: Natural
- FINISH: Gloss
- SCALE: 647.7 ㎜ / 25.5″
- CASE: Hard Case included
- SETUP: PRO-SCM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CRAFTER GUITARS
The brand name Crafter and the company’s own state-of-the-art South Korean manufacturing site is one of the most modern factories in Asia, where cutting edge production techniques and the traditional craft of guitar-making come together in perfect harmony.
Crafter began in 1972 when HyunKwon Park founded his business in the basement of his home in Seoul. HyunKwon built classical guitars for the Korean domestic market with four other craftsmen and by 1978 they had outgrown their basement space and moved to bigger premises, just outside Seoul, in order to fulfil their growing customer orders.
At this time, the guitars were branded ‘Sungeum’ which means ‘accomplishing the sound’. This is still a well known brand in the Korean market today but HyunKwon’s ambition was to sell to guitar players across the world and so he started to build acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars to appeal to international markets.
In 1986 HyunKwon’s son, Injae, joined the company and HyunKwon became chairman. InJae believed that ‘Sungeum’ was too difficult a word for his export market so he decided to create a new brand that would be both easy to remember and convey an appropriate image. He chose the name ‘Crafter’, which has connotations of high quality and also pays tribute to the craftsmen and women who create the guitars. Today the Crafter brand is now registered in more than 40 countries around the world.
When HyunKwon Park and his four employees began their conquest of the Korean market with classical guitars, their philosophy was to produce ‘top quality’ and ‘excellent value’ guitars. Under InJae Park’s leadership, he and his team of Artisans have confirmed Crafter’s status as a world-class product.
In line with the world’s biggest and most respected high volume acoustic guitar manufacturers, state-of-the-art CNC engineering is used to provide consistency and laser accuracy for the materials that make up a Crafter guitar however, Crafter guitars are still at heart, a handcrafted instrument with a tremendous amount of craftwork going into the making of each guitar. Southcoastmusic is proud to be associated with Crafter and their superb range of musical instruments.
