Good things in small packages - De Faoite Suzanna review

Dave White of these parts very kindly lent his his reconfigured Suzanna piccolo guitar to me recently as I was curious about such a small guitar.

Details of the work done to the guitar can be found on the thread Suzanna

I haven't had the pleasure of one of Dave's guitars previously so thought I would set out a few words.

Two thoughts struck me as I took the guitar out of the case, first was my goodness that is a really small guitar and almost straight afterwards to admire the absolutely superb craftmanship. I am privileged to own one or two nice guitars and the craftmanship here really stood up.

Then onto playing, the neck is very playable and the whole guitar just "worked". It took a little while to get used to holding the guitar as I am used to my usual jumbo sized guitars and ended up playing it more like a classical guitar.

For such a small guitar Dave has conjured a really great tone. Had the guitar in variety of G and A tunings and it coped well with all. 

I was going to record something with the guitar but unfortunately ran out of time. Will save that for the Samradh road trip guitar which I am now looking forward to with even more anticipation.

Thanks to Dave for his generosity and for crafting such a fine little guitar and thanks also to Leo Roberts for facilitating.

Greg