We are proud to be the exclusive distributor of Furch guitars in New Zealand.
Handcrafted in the Czech Republic, Furch has been making premium acoustic guitars since 1981. They have gained huge popularity all over the world and landed in the hands of artists such as Al Di Meola, Suzanne Vega, Glen Hansaard, and David Knopfler. Innovative design, high quality tonewoods, and a stellar commitment to environmental sustainability has helped Furch build a reputation for incredible tone and reliability.
Every Furch stands out thanks to their unique voicing process; each guitar's soundboard is individually tuned to enhance it's tonal properties to the highest level. This process produces a crystalline clear, harmonically rich, and highly dynamic sound across the tonal spectrum.
In addition to Furch's techniques for sonic maximization, they have also tackled the age old problem of neck resets! Furch's revolutionary CNR System® consists of a high precision dual-action truss rod placed inside a carbon casing, combined with a highly rigid composite neck heel. The innovative design offers unparalleled stability, and because it is very rigid, the neck joint of Furch guitars doesn't require heavy reinforcements, making it much lighter than traditional designs, and allowing a larger area of the soundboard to resonate freely and produce better tone.
Furch's core line of guitars is their Colour Series; Violet, Blue, Green, Yellow and Red, covering a huge range of materials and designs across multiple price points. Whether looking for a stripped back all-solid guitar with the Violet series, or a premium acoustic with exotic tonewoods and detailing with the Red series, Furch has options for every player.
Within each series, Furch has a Master's Choice model which represents what Furch believes to be the culmination of that series. Each Master's Choice guitar comes equipped with an LR Baggs Stagepro pickup system.
This guitar is a Yellow Master's Choice Gc-CR
The Yellow Master’s Choice is a high-quality all-solid-woods guitar in the Grand Auditorium shape with cutaway. The guitar features a soundboard from premium Western red cedar. The back and sides are made from high-quality Indian rosewood. The warm sound of these tonewoods is underscored by appointments that include a green abalone double-ring rosette and faux tortoise body binding. The body is protected by our proprietary Full-Pore High-Gloss Finish developed to enhance the resonance qualities of tonewoods. Thanks to high-quality materials and attractive appointments, the Yellow Master’s Choice is a beautiful instrument with finely tuned acoustic qualities. It produces a warm, round sound that is very balanced and suitable for demanding fingerstyle playing as well as a wide range of other styles.
The Yellow Master’s Choice is fitted with the LR Baggs Stagepro Anthem system, which combines a bridge pickup, an internal microphone, and a side-mounted preamp. The guitar comes with a heavy-duty Hiscox hardshell case.
In line with Furch’s Environmental commitments, the carbon footprint of this guitar is 16.5kg (reduced from 41.5kg).
Body
Available body shapes | Gc |
Neck-to-body joint | 14th fret |
Solid top - grade | Western red cedar - AAA |
Solid back and sides - grade | Indian rosewood - AA |
Binding | Faux tortoise with white line |
Purfling | Five black and white lines |
Rosette | Abalone double ring with black and white line |
Bridge | Ebony |
Bridge pins | Faux tortoise |
Saddle | TUSQ fully compensated |
Bridge string spacing | 55 mm |
Top finish | Full-Pore High-Gloss Finish |
Back and sides finish | Full-Pore High-Gloss Finish |
Pickguard | Anti-Scratch - transparent |
Neck
Nut width | 45 mm |
Neck reinforcement | CNR System with dual-action adjustment |
Neck profile | Furch Soft V |
Scale length | 650 mm |
Fingerboard material | Ebony |
Fingerboard radius | 400 mm |
Fingerboard front inlay | Pearl Eclipse inlays |
Fingerboard side inlay | Pearl position dots |
Fret finish | Polished |
Headstock overlay | Ebony |
Neck material | African mahogany |
Machine heads | Gotoh 510 Silver Patina - gear ratio 1:21 |
Machine head buttons | Polished ebony |
Zero fret | TUSQ |
Nut string spacing | 38 mm |
Strings | Elixir Ph-Br Nanoweb 12-53 |
Neck finish | Full-Pore Smooth-Slide Satin Finish with antibacterial additive |
Headstock finish | Full-Pore High-Gloss Finish |