Caletta

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Private Build Series

Caletta

Name: Caletta Private Build
Brand: B&G Guitars
Price: 4199.0 USD
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Every B&G Private build guitar is passionately crafted by renowned artisans Eliran Barashi and Yotam 'Kiki' Goldshtein.

Kiki Yotam, B&G Founder

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Description

The Caletta is B&G's take on the pre-World War II parlor guitar. In the Private Build series, every Caletta is built by hand in our workshop, one guitar at a time. The soundboard is voiced before the guitar is assembled, then fine-tuned again once it is strung and tested, so each guitar gets its own balanced sound character.

The Caletta body strikes a balance between sweetness and power. The 14 5/8” lower bout lets the fundamental notes develop full-bodied and punchy, while the narrow waist and smaller shoulders bring out the crispness of the upper range and the harmonics.

In its all-mahogany version, the Caletta has a very distinct tone and touch response that fingerstyle players love. The mahogany top responds fast and crisp, from the softest touch to more aggressive playing. Depending on the player's touch, it can be sweet and delicate, or turn tougher, with a signature ‘midrange bark’ well suited to blues, ragtime and slide playing.

The specifications below are for the all-mahogany build.

Soft V Neck Shape

Our “Soft V” neck profile is inspired by pre-war, vintage acoustic necks. Solid yet comfortable, in order to retain our trademark “parlor” feel and facilitate thumb fretting techniques.

Caletta Size

The Caletta unique body design strikes a perfect balance between sweetness and power. The 14 5/8” lower bout allows the fundamental notes to develop full-bodied and punchy, while the narrow waist and the smaller shoulders emphasize the crispness of the upper range and the development of harmonics.

Deep Tenon, Void-Free Neck Joint

Another of the original design features of the Caletta, our proprietary neck joint ensures optimal stability of the neck onto the body, thanks to a gluing surface that is about quadruple that of the surface in a traditional dovetail joint.

Highlights

Genuine Mahogany Top

It features an air-dried genuine mahogany top for a fast and crisp response, perfect for fingerstyle.

Hand Voicing

The soundboard is pre-voiced before the final assembly of the guitar. Then, once strung and tested, the inner side and the bracing are further fine-tuned to create perfect, desired tonal balance, underpinning the individual sound character of the guitar. Each guitar, every guitar, one at the time.

Traditional X Brace

Fully respecting the Caletta's vintage heritage, the soundboard is braced in an X-pattern, fine-tuned and customized in the dimensions, weights and scalloping pattern of each brace.

Nitrocellulose Finish

The vintage recipe for achieving the best looking, thinnest and most resonant finish, is still the best technique. Nothing compares to an adequately sprayed and buffed, traditional nitrocellulose lacquer, the only finish that ages together with the wood, merges into its molecules, and allows them to vibrate freely. We finish the Caletta in the same manner as the classics of the 50s -- with a very thin nitrocellulose layer that merges into the wood grain.

Alpine Spruce Braces

An excellent wood for braces, it combines light weight and stiffness, to achieve remarkable volume and projection, with excellent headroom and minimal compression.

Hot Hide Glue

We mix and use our own hot hide glue recipe, to achieve the strongest chemical bond with the minimal thickness of the glue layer itself. Hot hide glue is not easy to work with, or economically convenient, but it guarantees that the different woods will virtually integrate into each other, contributing to the resonant qualities of the finished guitar.

Upper Bout Braces

Two upper transverse braces support the last portion of the fretboard over the top, and guard against any possible top deformation in the delicate upper bout area.

Ultrathin Pickguard

We selected an ultrathin pickguard, durable enough to protect the top finish, but also light and inconspicuous enough not to hinder the top’s movements.