Toon Guitars / Lansdown L00 / High Gloss / Guitar
The "Lansdown"
I wanted to build some good quality steel string guitars with a clear balanced tone with clean modern looking lines yet with a foot in the past. The Lansdown is a really comfortable size guitar and just wants to sit in your lap and be played. It has 14 frets to the body with an X braced front and has been especially designed for ease of playing. The guitar has a balanced tone and can be adapted to a wide range of playing styles either for accompaniment or as a solo instrument.
Specifications
- selected Spruce top
- Indian Rosewood back and sides
- Swiss pear bindings
- real Abalone rosette
- high gloss finish
- Macasser ebony fingerboard and bridge
- macasser ebony headplate with inlaid MOP "Toon" logo
- bi-directional truss rod
- bone nut and saddle
- nickel "Grover Sta-Tite" tuners
- 45mm nut
- 58mm string spread at saddle
- 24.9" scale length
- hard case
- RRP €2265
Price: £1990,- / Approx. €2265,
Toon Guitars, UK
Welcome to the Toon Guitars website here on VintageandRare featuring hand-made guitars by Steve Toon.
For some 25 years I have been building Classical guitars and more recently Jazz and Steel String guitars alongside a career as a consultant and project engineer in the woodworking industry. In 2006 I decided to concentrate on building guitars as my full time career.
I was first attracted to the guitar by its versatile sound and its simple beauty. The guitar's sound is also capable of being extremely aggressive and strong, powerful and passionate or light and tender. My mission is to produce the finestguitars combining the best musicality with pleasing aesthetics, constructed by hand from the highest quality materials.
"A perfect piece of art"
Guitars
I build acoustic guitars by hand using the finest quality materials which have aged in my wood store for many years. Mostly I build Nylon string guitars but in recent years have added to the portfolio of products with Acoustic Jazz guitars, and small size Steel String guitars.
I apply the same thought and construction ethos to all my guitars.
I want to achieve an instrument which has a clear, focussed sound with a wide palette of tone colour. My preference is for natural materials and clean lines. I aim for the highest standards of workmanship and attention to detail.
I believe that it is important for the person owning one of my guitars to be able to sense the workmanship and passion that I put into each guitar and to know that each instrument is also as special to me as I hope it is to them.
Steven Toon