Chartwell Guitar

2014 Dan Kellaway

Woods: Brazilian walnut back and sides (laminated), Engleman spruce top, cedar neck, ebony fingerboard. French polish top and nitrocellulose lacquer over French polish on back and sides.

Miscellany: Schaller tuners, 650mm scale, 4mm bass string height 12th fret, 53mm nut, 43mm string spacing at nut,  57mm at bridge.

Condition: new

Comment: Dan Kellaway is a well established Australian luthier selling world wide and I am very pleased to represent his guitars in the U.S.  This guitar has all the subtle colors of  a traditional guitar build but has astonishing power and sustain. He employs the Romanillos bracing pattern that Bream employed. His lattice guitars on this site have enormous sound output and deep resonance; this guitar comes back to the middle range somewhat, but the intelligence that produces a huge concert sound in lattice informs this fan braced model. The Brazilian walnut is a most attractive timber and his stock of Engelmann spruce, with its strong medullary rays, is the engine that drives his sound. His rosette design is a particularly nice match with the reddish tones of the walnut.