This guitar is featured on the La Bella Professional Series 2001 string package. I have been associated with La Bella strings for some time now. I have always been fond of their 2001 series strings and have enjoyed my dealings with them as a company as well.

    In 1999 Richard Cocco, the president of La Bella, commissioned me to build them a guitar to represent their strings. He took me into the storerooms and took out some ancient sets of European Flame Maple and European Spruce and asked me if these materials would be acceptable for me to use for his guitar. Since this is not a material I use most often, I was looking forward to doing something different for them.

    Click here to see the results of this collaboration.