Atkin White Rice Black Top Custom Sitka-Indian

The White Rice is Atkin's loving recreation of one of the most famous acoustic guitars in bluegrass: the dreadnought once owned by Clarence White and later by Tony Rice, hence the name. Its instantly recognizable enlarged soundhole and overhanging fretboard let more air move in and out of the body for a voice Alister Atkin describes as sounding like a cannon, with an openness and resonance that goes beyond an ordinary dreadnought. This custom example adds a striking black top to the torrified Sitka spruce soundboard, with pre-war scalloped bracing over East Indian rosewood back and sides, herringbone purfling and grained ivoroid binding. Built by hand in Canterbury, England, serial number 4156 is a powerful flatpicking guitar with a look all its own.