The Cole Clark FL 2EC is a powerful dreadnought crafted with unique tonewoods and painstaking build techniques which culminate in a truly remarkable playing experience! The Bunya top and Australian Blackwood back and sides are both visually and sonically gorgeous, yielding a dynamic tonal response and impressive projection.
Unique Construction
Cole Clark steel string acoustic guitars are the only main stream acoustic to use a Spanish heel or integral neck construction. This means the neck is glued to the face along with the sides and the back so the neck is one piece all the way to the sound hole. On other guitars, the body is made then the neck attached, mostly with a bolt or dove tail join. Due to our method, the sound is unique. Cole Clark also has a carved top and back and uses a ridge system to join the sides to the top and back instead of kerfing.
Natural Pickup
The Cole Clark patented pickup system is the most acoustic sounding pickup available. Aimed at finding a more natural tone when amplified and eliminating piezo ‘quack’, our pickups comprise different elements that only hear certain frequencies which they’re best equipped to handle. This is done using a combination of 6 loaded piezos under the saddle for bottom end, a face sensor that can be blended in to hear frequencies in the mid to high range (350 Hz maximum crossover) and a condenser microphone shelved to hear only extreme highs.
Timbers
Cole Clark guitars are all solid timber using mostly native Australian tone woods that are largely sustainable.
Bunya Top
This native sustainable Australian tone wood sourced from Queensland is used in over half of Cole Clark’s guitars.
- Air Dry Density 460
- Modulus of Elasticity 11
- Janka Hardness 2.3
- Signature Cole Clark acoustic sound
- For a medium to hard player, especially amplified
- Good for a percussive player
- Handles climate extremes better than the softer timbers. This is a sustainable timber.
Australian Blackwood Back & Sides
This is an Australian native timber sourced from Tasmania or Victoria and is sustainable. It is a beautiful timber to look at with a very similar tonal characteristic to Koa as it is a very close cousin.
- Air Dry Density 640
- Modulus of Elasticity 13
- Janka Hardness 5.9
- Good low mid’s
- Good mid-range punch
- Good high frequency definition
- Good for amplifying
- Signature Cole Clark acoustic sound, sustainable.