2021 Greg Smallman & Sons Cedar/Lattice Braced

Top: Cedar/Lattice Braced
Back and sides: Ziricote
Scale: 650mm
Origin: Austalia
Price: $29,900

This is a superb sounding Smallman! Smallman guitars have a dedicated fan base all over the world, and have for many many years. Not that volume should be an end in and of itself, but if we for a moment just isolate that attribute of concert level guitars, I personally think nothing has quite the volume that a Smallman does, they are just cannons!

Listen to the video on this page where Ingrid Riollot is playing this exact Smallman and you can hear the lovely tone of this guitar.

This is clearly one of those that I love, beautiful tone, adjustable Smallman action makes it easy to adjust the action to your person preference with a couple twists of a simple size 8 hex wrench, and volume like it is plugged in to a mini amp! This is one of those Smallman’s that makes you smile. In fact the owner who was going to send it to me kept pulling in out and playing it and deciding to keep it! After doing this several times he finally sent it to me, however reluctantly. Anybody seeking a Smallman will love this one.

The guitar presents as ’near new’ when you take it out of the case. Upon VERY close examination I saw a ‘line’ in the upper bout, treble side that ‘mimicked’ a crack, but is not a crack and appears simply to be a line in the finish, I tried to capture it in one of the photos below, you can’t see it unless you hold it in the light and look close. a non issue in my opinion. There is one other almost invisible touch up/repair on the lower bout of the top, very well done, again i tried to capture it in a close up but even then you can hardly notice it.

This is a great sounding Smallman, with gorgeous Ziricote Back and sides, and the action adjustment tool is included and it comes in a lovely white Karura Carbon Fiber case.