The famous English singer-songwriter with Irish roots Ed Sheeran has worked with leading acoustic guitar manufacturers in addition to a string of hit records, but he has never made such a clear statement about his roots as he has with Irish guitar manufacturer Lowden. The newly formed Sheeran by Lowden brand currently offers two model lines of acoustic guitars - the "W" and the "S".
The design of the S-branded instruments is based on the specifics of the more compact Lowden guitars (S stands for Small Body), similar to the Orchestra/OM models or the "00" two-string guitars, for example. Thanks to the appropriate choice of materials and ribbing, it offers, for the size of the body, a sonorous sound with decent bass that is sure to please a wide range of guitarists, including children.
The front of the S-03 is made from solid cedar, which is complemented on the back and sides by overlaid Indian rosewood. The resonance of the top is enhanced by the spruce ribbing (Lowden A Frame), while playing comfort is enhanced by the soundbox bevel and lower body cutaway. The mahogany neck, standardly attached to the body at the fourteenth fret, is glued to an ebony fingerboard fitted with twenty frets. The strings are anchored in chrome tuning machines and an ebony headstock via the TusQ zero fret. The fine workmanship is accentuated by the wooden rosette and pau ferro veneer on the headstock.
The guitar's sound system is provided by an L.R. Baggs Element VTC active electronics system with an endpin jack preamp, which also features a built-in LF compressor (operating in the sub-400 Hz frequency range). Volume and Tone controls are discreetly placed in the instrument's soundhole.
The guitar is supplied in a gig bag.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Natural
- Colour: Natural
- Surface Treatment: Gloss
- Type: Sheeran S
- Cutaway: Yes
- Body Construction: Semi-Solid
- Top/Face: Cedar, Solid
- Back Plate: Rosewood
- Sides/Ribs: Rosewood
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale: 630 mm
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Width: 44.5 mm
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Nut: TusQ
- Pickup: Yes
- Model electronics: L. R. Baggs Element VTC
- Controls: Volume, Tone
- Integrated Tuner: No
- Tuning Machines: Lowden
- Hardware: Chrome
- Hard Case: No
- Case: Yes
- Strings: Lowden 12-53
- Country of Production: Ireland