Sakazo Nakade. Spruce/rosewood. 1963. Vintage Handmade Japanese classical guitar. Custom model that Nakade built for specific individual. Spruce/ rosewood.Lots of checking in nitrocellulose finish - golden color, very vintage.Plays very easily. High quality, handmade guitar from one of Japan's top luthiers.Includes a hard case. Guitar is located in San Diego county - will ship from there. Am reusing some old photos, but can supply new ones.-----------The guitar has the charming sound you get from a nicely aged spruce top with deep, warm basses and crisp, crystal-like trebles.This guitar was custom-built to the original customer's specifications in 1963, the label bears this person's name. The rosewood used on the back and sides is of high-quality and perfectly quartered. The spruce top has a nice, glowing amber tone and highest quality ebony has been used for the fingerboard. An overall beautiful guitar built with high-quality woods that are very hard to come by today. It is finished in nitrocellulose, which when ages, becomes very hard and brittle which causes small micro cracks in the finish. There are no cracks through the wood. All original, incl MoP side-dots.Standard action ~4/3mm, can go lower if needed.SPECIFICATIONS:Top: SpruceBack: Solid RosewoodSides: Soild RosewoodNeck: MahoganyFingerboard: EbonyScale: 650mmNut width: 52mmACTION:1st string @ 12th fret: ~3mm6th string @ 12th fret: ~4mm---------Very rare, custom-made guitar from Sakazo Nakade, one of the world's most highly regarded luthiers and known as the "Father of Modern Japanese Luthiery".Sakazo and his older brother Rokutaro Nakade apprenticed under Japanese Master Violin Luthier Mr. Kinpachi Miyamoto in 1930’s.Miyamoto had a chance to examine and measure Andres Segovia's performance guitar while he performed in Tokyo in 1929. He never ventured into guitar making, but the apprentice Nakade brothers did. They also went to Spain to study guitar making from the Spanish masters. He worked with both Jose Ramírez and Hernandez y Aguado. Nakade guitars are high quality instruments and have a big following in Japan. They were famous in early 60's before Masaru Kohno got famous in the later that decade, who learned to make guitars from Sakazo Nakade.Rokutaro passed away in early 1970’s while Sakazo continued his work until his death in 1993 (at the age of 87). The Nakade family legacy continued with Sakazo's 3 sons Teruaki, Toshihiko and Yukio, and Rokutaro's son Osamu. Today, only Toshihiko Nakade still makes guitars. His lowest model No.100 is priced 1000000 yen, which in US distribution would translate to at least $15 000.Naturally, used guitars made by the Nakade family are very highly sought by Japanese players and guitar collectors. In any case all these vintage Nakade made guitars offer very high value for the money.---------