Description
“It is just wonderful. I have been playing it for nearly a whole day now, and it just has gotten better and better. The craftsmanship is beautiful, it plays easily and I really love the sound. It has a clear, articulate and full voice. I’m sorry to say for you, but I think I have found my dream guitar. I think this will be all I’ll ever need. I restrung it with D’Addario Pro-Arte, the regular nylon set, and I think they made it even better. Warmer and stronger. So, thank you for making this available and for selling it at such a fair price. It’s a piece of art, and I can’t speak highly enough about this.” JR
There is a steady move to replace non-sustainable and endangered scarce tropical hardwoods with native-European and sustainable species. The 56AF-N has a high quality, thermo-modified solid spruce soundboard sourced from Switzerland, solid maple back and sides, cherry neck reinforced with chequers wood, plum fingerboard and maple headstock veneers. The curved bridge is also plum.
Another significant feature of this guitar is the use of thermo-treated woods. Hanika is one of the pioneers among the leading luthiers of Europe to use this process. When used on the soundboard, the spruce has a new mellowness combined with its natural brightness; an extremely attractive combination! Carefully calibrated thermo-treatment is also applied to the maple, cherry, chequers wood and plum.
| Soundboard | High quality thermo-treated spruce |
| Soundboard bracing | 7-fold, symmetrical, domed |
| Back and sides | Thermo-modified high quality maple |
| Neck | Thermo-modified cherry reinforced with thermo-modified chequers wood |
| Fingerboard | High quality thermo-modified plum |
| Fret dots | At positions 5 and 7 |
| Soundhole rosette | Maple |
| Soundboard binding | Curly maple |
| Back binding | Curly maple |
| Front head plate | Maple |
| Back head plate | Maple |
| Bridge | Thermo-modified plum, 12 hole tie block design |
| Nut and saddle material | Bone |
| Saddle design | Rearward sloping saddle to maintain intonation at different string action settings |
| Tuners / Machines heads | Rubner R2 |
| Soundboard finish | HE matt finish |
| Body finish | HE high-gloss finish |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Case / bag | Optional extra |
The maker reserves the right to change specification without notice
| Scale | 650mm |
| Neck/Fingerboard width at nut | 52mm |
| String spacing at nut | 42mm |
| String spacing at bridge | 59mm |
| Neck/Fingerboard width at 12th fret | 62mm |
| Neck profile | D-1mm |
| Number of frets | 20 |
| Overall length | 1006mm |
| Body Length | 486mm |
| Body depth at heel | 95mm |
| Body depth at base | 102mm |
| Width upper bout | 288mm |
| Width lower bout | 365mm |
| Width at waist | 238mm |
| Weight | 1.6kg |
PLEASE NOTE: All measurements above are taken from a single guitar and because wood is a natural material they will very slightly from design specifications.
