#500

Two years in the making and combining two legendary woods, Petros Guitars is proud to announce their 500th guitar.

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Just in time for my 69th birthday, my 500th guitar is finally done. This guitar is our smaller Fingerstyle body and features “The Tree” mahogany back and sides and a Tunnel 13 Redwood top. The neck is some of the finest grained Honduras Mahogany I have seen and is a nice light weight piece fitting in nicely with the rest of the light weight body.

— Bruce Petros

Mahogany from The Tree

In 1965, deep in the jungle, a 350 year old giant of a tree, 100 feet tall and 10 feet around was felled and hopelessly trapped in a ravine.  It waited 16 years before it was retrieved and dragged over 100 miles to a steam powered sawmill. When it was opened up it revealed some of the most spectacularly figured Mahogany ever seen.  As its legendary status grew it has been dubbed “The Tree.” For many years the wood has been coveted by guitar builders for its beauty and tonal properties. The Tree exhibited 3 different figures with the tortoise shell figure being the most sought after.

Redwood from Tunnel 13

Longer ago in 1880, high in the Siskiyou mountains, a railroad tunnel was built using timbers from virgin Redwood trees for the tunnel supports. In 1926, Southern Pacific train 13, pulling 13 cars, going through Tunnel 13 was held up and 4 men were killed. This was The Last Great American Train Robbery.  A fire in 2003 caused the tunnel to cave in and some of this spectacular redwood was salvaged and sold to Petros Guitars. When these charred timbers were opened up an amazing treasure was indeed found. This 2000 year old wood, air dried in the tunnel for 120 years is some of the finest tonewood the Petros boys have ever encountered. This rare timber has been christened Tunnel 13 Redwood®.

Now, in 2021, Petros Guitars has joined these two distinguished treasures for the marriage of the century. This guitar is built with the two most beautiful and tonally superior woods in the world. 

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#500 Includes

  • Top: Tunnel 13 Redwood

  • Back & Sides: “The Tree” Mahogany

  • Bridge: African Ebony

  • Bridge Pins: Old Walrus Ivory

  • Neck: Mahogany

  • Fingerboard: African Ebony

  • Inlay: Boxwood

  • Nut and Saddle: Old Walrus Ivory

  • Truss Rod Cover: Engraved Boxwood

  • Binding: Boxwood

  • Purfling: Florentine, Boxwood

  • Rosette: Tunnel 13 Boxwood/Abalone

  • Tuners: Rogers/Sterling Silver with Custom Engraved Plates

  • Tuner Buttons: Boxwood

  • Sound Port: Boxwood/Abalone

  • Lower Bout: 15 inches

  • Waist: 5 5/8 inches

  • Upper Bout: 10 1/2 inches

  • Depth: 4 1/4 inches

  • Scale: 25 1/2 inches

  • Nut Width: 1 13/16 inches

  • Bridge Spacing: 2 1/4 inches

  • Case: Karura Carbon Fiber

  • Serial Number: 500

  • Price: $100,000