2010 Blazer & Henkes Déjà Vu San Antonio 28, Brazilian Rosewood/Austrian Moonspruce

This 2010 Déjà Vu San Antonio 28 from Blazer & Henkes is receptive to a light attack, plus it has headroom for digging in. With gorgeous tonewoods throughout, and an expansive midrange that makes for an enveloping voice that feels instantly familiar to your ear, this instrument is the complete package. The back and sides are Brazilian Rosewood, and on top they’ve used a set of Austrian Alpine Moonspruce with a bit of bearclaw figuring for added drama. Elsewhere, you’ll find vintage 28-style appointments. The practice of using moon-harvested Spruce goes back for hundreds of years, and Willi and Rudolph have garnered their premium supply from loggers who harvest strictly according to the traditional moon calendar for forestry, namely during a new moon phase when the water content inside wood cells is at its lowest and in the fall when Spruce trees are in their resting period. The result is a quality of Spruce that dries faster, matures more quickly, and is less prone to shrinking damage ov