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Northfield – The Rival – Cremona Burst

This uniquely-small body, with its complex arching, tone bars, and flat back was something altogether different, from its origin story found in those 000-sized Archtops, made in Nazareth in the 1930s

Description

  • Top: Alpine Italian Red Spruce

  • Back / Neck / Sides: Highly Figured Michigan Maple

  • Scale Length: 24”

  • Neck joint: Dovetail, 15th fret

  • Body Length: 445mm

  • Body Width at lower bout: 347mm (13.7”)

  • Body Width at upper bout: 257mm (10.125 “)

  • Depth of Body: At Endpin: 80mm (3.15”)
    At Heel: 65mm (2.6”)

  • Tailpiece: Northfield/Nugget, plated brass

  • Binding: Multi ply Tortoise-style celluloid

  • Pick Guard: Ebony

  • Bridge / Fingerboard: Striped Ebony

  • Nut Width: 1 11/16th

  • Fingerboard Radius: 12.5” (318.5mm) at nut, 17″ (433mm) at Fingerboard end

  • Frets: Nickel Silver

  • Tuners: Schertler

  • Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer