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Guitar Page Header~We are delighted to be the only European outlet for Charis guitars (pronounced Karis). Bill Wise only builds around thirty five of his fine guitars a year. He was named as one of the one hundred most important people at General Motors for his engineering and design skills. When he wanted a good guitar to replace his old campfire special he made one. The rest, as they say, is history. Within five years he had started a career as a full-time luthier. Bill put his design and engineering skills to good use developing his own variation of X bracing with finger and tone bar braces adjusted to get his desired tone. He uses a mortise and tennon neck joint with two stainless steel bolts. In the interests of perfecting his skills Bill keeps to just two body designs, the Small Jumbo with a fifteen and a quarter inch lower bout and the Grand Concert at fourteen and seven eighths inches. Featured in Acoustic Guitar Magazine in July 2007 Bill is renowned not only for the tone of Charis guitars but also the immaculate finishing, an engineer's eye for detail is apparent in every aspect of these amazing guitars.~~~12966~12968~~

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Charis Grand Concert Western Red Cedar/Rosewood~Another beautifully crafted guitar from Bill Wise at Charis. With the Western Red Cedar top and Rosewood back and sides it has a warmth and depth of tone and complexity that has to be heard to be believed. It takes a great luthier to obtain this and combine it with outstanding definition and projection. The playability is unrivalled, an awesome finger-stylists guitar that also responds well to strumming and more energetic approaches. It has a five part maple/rosewood/bubinga/rosewood/maple neck with ebony headstock overlay, abalone logo, gold Gotoh 510 tuners (smoooooth…) abalone rosette, flamed maple top and back binding with b/w/b edging both sides, a flamed maple centre-strip and a Cedar Creek Custom Shop case.~Another beautifully crafted guitar from Bill Wise at Charis. With the Western Red Cedar top and Rosewood back and sides it has a warmth and depth of tone and complexity that has to be heard to be believed. It takes a great luthier to obtain this and combine it with outstanding definition and projection. The playability is unrivalled, an awesome finger-stylists guitar that also responds well to strumming and more energetic approaches. It has a five part maple/rosewood/bubinga/rosewood/maple neck with ebony headstock overlay, abalone logo, gold Gotoh 510 tuners (smoooooth…) abalone rosette, flamed maple top and back binding with b/w/b edging both sides, a flamed maple centre-strip and a Cedar Creek Custom Shop case.~Grand Concert Western Red Cedar/Rosewood|g_col_0004|~12966~13272~vintage_guitar~

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