Model 1 Sicilian
The Model 1 Sicilian is a medium size guitar, larger overall than a standard 000 model but smaller and shallower than a Dreadnought. It’s a versatile guitar, suiting many fingerstyle and plectrum playing styles.
The Model 1 was my first flat-top guitar, introduced in 1983, and for several years the only flat-top I built. In 1992 I introduced a revised version which became the Model 1 Sicilian.
Like all my flat-top guitars, it has a slightly curved soundboard and more heavily curved back.
The guitar shown has Madagascar rosewood back and sides, an Adirondack spruce soundboard and a Cuban mahogany neck.
| Soundboard | German spruce, other woods available |
| Back and sides | Indian rosewood, other woods available |
| Neck | Mahogany |
| Fingerboard and bridge | Ebony |
| Trim | Herringbone and white/black/white purfling, other trims optional |
| Tuners | Gotoh, others optional |
| Pickup (optional) | Highlander, others available |
| Length | 40 3/8″ 102.5cm |
| Body length | 19 1/4″ 49 cm |
| Upper bout width | 11 3/4″ 30 cm |
| Lower bout width | 16 3/8″ 41.5 cm |
| Depth at tail | 4 1/4″ 11 cm |
| Scale | 25 5/8″ 650 mm |
| Nut width | 1 3/4″ 45mm |
| String spacing at bridge | 2 3/8″ 60mm |
