This guitar was my second collaboration with Yul. It is smaller than the first one (15 inches instead of 16). The layout was similar, but Yul wanted more comfort, so he wanted to omit the pickguard and have a smaller body.
A fundamental precept of the design was to keep the price as low as possible. Yul and I don’t want instruments that musicians can’t pay. We think it would be great that both his fellow guitarists and students could have instruments of the highest quality at an affordable price. The YB line of guitars is our compromise with what we love. All the instruments with YB on their peghead have a special price.
As all the guitars here, this is just an example. If you want something similar and it is not exactly what you see, please notice that you can change a lot of things, many without additional cost. Send me an email, and we’ll talk.
Curly maple carved back, bent curly maple sides. To save costs, this guitar has a back made of three pieces.
European spruce carved top.
Curly maple neck, with 25 1/2″ (648 mm) scale. The bone nut has a width of 1 11/16″ (43 mm). Ebony fretboard, with stainless steel frets (Jescar FW47104SS).
Bindings of a very hard wood (jatoba) protect the edge of the soundbox.
Ebony peghead overlay, with YB² inlay made of white mother-of-pearl. The truss rod nut access cover has the name of the player inlaid in white MOP.
Ebony tailpiece, with a reliable connection of the strings to ground.
The jack is here, at the side.
As this guitar doen't have a pickguard, we decided to put the controls here.
Yul has a very clean technique, and when he plays he doesn't need to rest his right hand anywhere on the instrument. That's why I wanted to use this pickup, that is anchored at the end of the neck by means of two nylon pins. It is made of curly etimoe, polished..
Black Schaller M6-135 machines.
D’Addario EXL115 (11-49) strings
Nitrocellulose finish (Votteler), old violin.
