Standard Build Little Sister Non Cutaway Classic

Little Sister Non Cutaway

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Little Sister

Non Cutaway - Classic

Standard Build Series

The concept of the Little Sister began with the puzzling question of how the early delta bluesmen were able to fascinate a listener with only one guitar and their simple, yet soulful vocal lines. Understanding that these players' fat and throaty guitar tones often came from playing small-body parlor guitars, we decided to uncover the secret of these instruments and embark on a journey back to the Crossroads. While obsessively collecting all sorts of original guitars from the 1920s and ‘30s, many of which were in poor condition and needed complete restoration, we began to create the special design that would best serve the guitar sound we had become hooked on. We wanted to create an instrument that would be versatile enough for players who use a pick, and for players who are finger-stylists. It needed to be superior in terms of playability, and it had to be gimmick-free. We imagined lightweight, comfortable, and unique. Ultimately, we decided that it should be a small-bodied parlor guitar because these were the instruments that we kept going back to again and again. The Little Sister finally came to life - Featuring a carved chambered body in genuine mahogany, vintage slotted headstock, Indian rosewood fingerboard, unique soft V neck, original designed hardware and body shape, and the in-house hand wound pickups makes for an instrument that is original and innovative, yet feels very familiar in the avid player’s hands. The Little Sister is available for the first time ever as part of our Standard Build series. Made in Tel-Aviv, Israel according to our unparalleled Private Build standards.Read Less

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Soft V Neck Shape

Our «Soft V» neck profile is inspired by a vintage acoustic neck, solid yet comfortable, to retain our trademark «parlor» feel and facilitate the thumb fretting techniques.

Handmade Electronics

Each pickup is wound by hand with AWG42 lacquered enamel copper wire, powered by in-house cast AlNiCo II and AlNiCo V magnets and covered by our handmade brass covers.

Solid Figured Maple

B&G only uses old-growth, reclaimed, and naturally seasoned wood blanks, hand selected and stored in a controlled environment warehouse. Our Maple tops are no exception, and are available in different quality and figuring classes, as well as in 1 piece option, in place of the standard bookmatched 2-piece top.

The Little Sister, Classic

The Little Sister as it was firstly created.Show More

The original design & finish of the very first Little Sister, in the cutaway version. Same specs and a slight different look from the earliest prototype. This Little Sister model brings out what our founding luthiers wanted since its inception. After years of research, design and prototyping, Kiki & Eliran created this traditional yet fresh instrument, balancing carefully between traditional building techniques and modern approaches. The result is the Little Sister Classic Cutaway, a traditionally rooted guitar, capable of performing in a variety of different styles and genres.Show Less

GOLDEN ERA LUTHERIE

B&G Standard Build guitars are hand-built using the traditional techniques from the ‘Golden Era' of electric lutherie, delivering a vintage feel, look, and sound, straight out of the case.

PRE WAR MYTHOLOGY

The Little Sister design is a reinterpretation of pre-war acoustics. B&G's goal was to create a classic yet fresh, unique instrument, as easy and cozy to play as those almost mythical guitars. Hence the neck joint at the 14th fret, the slotted headstock, and the classic non-cutaway body shape.

CHAMBERED LIGHTWEIGHT BODY

The carved, chambered body, in genuine mahogany, delivers unique acoustic features. It achieves a delicate balance between body resonance and resistance to feedback, that results in an organic, vocal quality to the sound, and a tactile, responsive playing feel. The guitar is by consequence featherlight, but without any compromise on her stability and strength.

TRADITIONAL GLUES

Glue is one of the critical elements in the building of a guitar. Traditional hide glue for the neck joint, fish glue for the frets, and urea-formaldehyde for the top, all crystalize like glass when dry, creating a substantially thinner layer between the different parts, which allows for optimal string energy transfer -- significantly better than modern synthetic glues.

ONE-WAY TRUSS ROD

Single, one-way truss rods are lighter and require a smaller channel in the neck. This building technique also demands neck woods that are perfectly aged, plus accurate installation of the truss rod. Private Build B&G Guitars only use this specific truss rod design, for improved tone transfer and sustain.

B&G PRIVATE BUILD PICKUP

The Private Build pickups are developed and hand-wound in-house, to ensure that specific nuance of vintage tone we wanted for our guitars. They are based on AlNiCo II and V magnets and 42AWG lacquered enamel copper wire. Our custom built coil winder allows us to control the pattern of the windings as well as its tension, to optimize the tone and the microphonic factor. The coils are then ready for the optional wax potting and for the final assembling. The brass covers are essential to our tone, shielding and protecting the pickup. They contribute to smoothen and even out the frequency response of the pickups in the upper midrange, to achieve the unparalleled airy, warm and organic tone of a B&G Guitar.

PROPRIETARY AGED BRASS HARDWARE

Brass is a beautiful metal for guitar hardware. It brilliantly transfers the entire frequency spectrum, without sounding too ‘metallic'. B&G is using proprietary brass hardware that is uniquely aged for a vintage look and tone.

RULE OF 18

The vintage-size frets are precisely installed on the fingerboard, using the historic «Rule of 18» (24 ¾ scale). This placement calculation is slightly different from the modern, computer-determined one, granting that unique character and feel to the guitar playability that only a vintage instrument can deliver.

SOLID MAPLE TOP

Maple top has been the first choice for the Little Sister since day one. The combination of maple and mahogany has been used for decades to create great guitar tone. We’re using solid figured maple for it tonal qualities and it’s beautiful aesthetics, giving each instrument a unique and mesmerizing look.

NITROCELLULOSE FINISH

The vintage recipe for creating the best looking, thinnest and most resonant finish, remains the best. Nothing compares to a perfectly sprayed and buffed traditional nitrocellulose lacquer. It is the only finish that ages together with the wood, becoming thinner with time, merging into the wood molecules, and allowing them to vibrate freely.