CRAFTER 32nd ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION GRAND AUDITORIUM ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR
TWIN BIRDS ROSE PLUS
This is the Crafter TB-ROSE PLUS Twin Birds Grand Auditorium acoustic electric guitar – a superb guitar by any measure.
This Twin Bird Series guitar is a limited edition model built to honour Crafter’s 32nd Anniversary.
We only have one which is the guitar in the accompanying images.
- Grand Auditorium Body
- Solid Engelmann Spruce Top
- Indian Rosewood Back and Sides
- Wider Neck
- Deluxe Gold Hardware
- Beautifully Inlayed Wooden Twin Bird 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 Twin Bird Rose Plus model has been released as a limited edition model celebrating Crafter’s 32nd 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 Twin Birds 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 Twin Birds Rose Plus is a guitar that you won’t want to put down.
These model was built in relatively small numbers and is often 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 Twin Birds Rosewood comes complete with a hard case.
CRAFTER TB-ROSE PLUS TWIN BIRDS SPECIFICATIONS
- MODEL NAME: TB-ROSE PLUS
- 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: Wood Twin Birds 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’s 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.
Although today’s guitars are produced using state-of-the-art CNC engineering, Crafter guitars are still at heart, a handcrafted instrument with a tremendous amount of craftwork going into the making of each guitar. Southcoastmusic are proud to be associated with Crafter and their superb range of musical instruments.
