Professional Series

Petite Jumbo 

      
Above picture shows the Prototype NAMM Custom Petite Jumbo with Curly Koa body binding in combination with a abalone rosette /top border and Gold Waverly tuners.  Photo below shows the Rosewood bound neck and headstock.  Click on pictures for large view. 

The Petite Jumbo.  New for 2005. This is a guitar  we have been experimenting with for a couple of years and the few prototypes that have made it out of our shop have been treasured by their lucky owners.  We are pleased to finally offer this guitar as a model.  With its "small", 16" jumbo outline, the Petite Jumbo represents a significant development in the Bourgeois line.

Variations of this body style have traditionally graced a variety of guitars including smaller archtops, rhythm workhorses for accompaniment of singers like the Everly Brothers, and more recently, fingerstyle guitars for virtuoso solo performers. Specifically configured to suit the latter, the Bourgeois PJ combines European Spruce and Madagascar Rosewood to produce a full, rich tonal palette with a medium-wide 1/34" nut and a powerful 25.5" scale.

The Petite Jumbo features an X-braced back to enhance lower register articulation. In the tradition of fine, handmade fingerstyle guitars, the Petite Jumbo is bound in darker woods.  Rosewood on the body.  The ebony headstock and un-inlaid ebony fretboard are bound in dark rosewood and subtly highlighted by a single line of white purfling for an clean, understated look. Further appointments include bone pins, Bourgeois style backstrip and Gold Waverly tuners.

 
Photos show: Custom  Petite Jumbo.  Curly Koa bound body with Premium Madagascar Rosewood and Premium Adirondack Spruce top.  The Bourgeois Snakehead as well as the 1 3/4" neck are bound in Koa too.  The Waverly tuners have Snakewood buttons.  Bone pins.

Except as noted, all Bourgeois models include the following features:   
25.5" Scale Length, One piece Mahogany Neck,  Bone Nut & Saddle, Ebony Fretboard & Bridge, High Gloss Body and Satin Neck Finish, Mother of Pearl Bourgeois headstock inlay, Bourgeois Premium Tortoiseshell style pickguard, Ivoroid Bridge and End Pins, Deluxe Hardshell Case and a Limited Lifetime Warranty.  A variety of optional tonewoods, appointments, hardware and finishes are also available.

Available through one of our fine retailers.

List price: $5795 

Feature	Description
Body Style	Petite Jumbo
Head Style	Snakehead
Nut Width	1 3 /4"
Top	European
Rosette	Abalone
Back and Sides	Madagascar Rosewood
Backstrip	Bourgeois
Body Binding	Rosewood
Fretboard Binding	Rosewood
Fretboard Inlay	None
Headstock Binding	Rosewood
Headstock Veneer	Ebony
Bridge	Ebony Belly
Tuners	Gold Waverly
Finish	Natural
Additional features	Side Purfling.  Bone pins & end pins.  No pickguard.

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