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(C3) Wilson Campos Cavaquinho, 2024

(C3) Wilson Campos Cavaquinho, 2024

Regular price $1,200.00 USD
Regular price Sale price $1,200.00 USD
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Wilson Campos is an up-and-coming instrument builder from São José dos Campos in the interior of São Paulo state.  With a technical background as a former airplane builder at Embraer, Wilson is considered a top, contemporary builder of Brazil's folk steel-string guitar, the viola caipira. He also builds 6- and 7-string guitars, and bandolins.  His cavacos are light-weight with a fast, clean sound, and frequently use less-common, native woods that have excellent sonic parameters -- for example, the Pau Ferro used for the back and sides on this one. This cavaco is brand new and comes fitted with top quality German tuners (Rubner).

Top: European Spruce
Back & sides: Loro Preto
Neck: Cedro Rosa (Cedar)
Fingerboard: Brazilian Rosewood
Nut: Bone + zero fret
Saddle: Bone
Scale length: 340mm
Nut width: 29mm
Body depth: 84mm
Widest body width: 226mm
Finish: PU 
Tuners: Rubner
Pickup: no 
Case: new hardcase
Strings: Dinâmico São Paulo cavaco
Condition: New
Recent work: setup

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