Casimi Guitars
2020 Casimi C5C Baritone, African Blackwood/Moonspruce
2020 · Listed by Dream Guitars · Asheville, NC
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Specs
- Top
- Moonspruce
- Back / Sides
- African Blackwood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Baritone
- Scale length
- 28"
- Nut width
- 1.875"
- Frets to body
- 13
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned Mint
- Year
- 2020
About Casimi Guitars
Casimi Guitars are built in Cape Town, South Africa by Matthias Roux and Matthew Rice — two best friends who grew up together and joined forces at Maingard Guitars before launching the Casimi name. The shop is two people by intent: Roux does the voicing and structural work, Rice handles design and aesthetics, and every guitar is built by both of them with no CNC anywhere in the process. Each Casimi takes roughly two and a half months to complete, uses a lattice bracing pattern Roux developed over several years of experimentation, and carries hand-cut inlay in precious metals and rare hardwoods — Quilted Mahogany from The Tree, African Blackwood, Hawaiian Koa, Alpine spruce soundboards harvested at the lunar low-sap point in the European violin tradition. Annual output runs about ten guitars in a strong year. They are among the most expensive instruments tracked on Tonewood Atlas; players like Guy Buttery have championed them, and a small global circle of collectors keeps the wait list long.
About Dream Guitars
Dream Guitars sits in Asheville, North Carolina, in what may be the most photographed shop in the boutique acoustic world. Their inventory runs deep across the modern fingerstyle and bluegrass spectrum — Kostal, Bashkin, Goodall, Bourgeois, Pre-War, and many others — and the staff has earned a reputation for knowing each instrument in detail and matching buyers to the right one.
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