The Pederson Hand Made Acoustic Advantage...

The EVA JM is pioneering in its sound, beautiful and sleek in its traditional look, and a pure joy to play. The joy comes from hearing the rich bass, the sparkling treble over tones and an overall balance in its tone as you strum, pick and play this guitar effortlessly in a manner of different styles. The EVA JM is a modern progressive 16" lower bout auditorium guitar with the sound hole in the traditional place, located at the end of the fingerboard.

Your ears, fingers and senses become one with the responsiveness of this MASTER BUILT guitar. Many of the guitar players that try it at the acoustic guitar shows remark about "the sustain" and the lush voice of the guitar.

Many guitars are robbed of precious sustain simply due to inferior construction and bracing schemes. Over the six years I have been developing this guitars voice, I have been tuning the bracing and the top to excel in this dynamic range.

Voicing the top and the bracing is a science and an art. The bracing is critical in the guitar. To state it factually, the bracing 'impedes' the top's ability to vibrate more freely. However, without proper bracing the acoustic guitar top will distort under the strings tension, or if the bracing is too stiff, then it will suffocate the top’s ability to sing. The EVA JM's bracing and top have been fine tuned to maximize the guitars responsiveness. That balance will ultimately enhance the acoustic guitar's dynamic range to give you a superior playing experience.

The EVA JM acoustic guitar is a coupled system of bracing, back, sides, and the top; along with the neck, nut, fingerboard and bridge. Each has a critical role in the process of creating a sound that will put a smile on your face.

Player Testmonial

Jeff Morgan writes about his custom Eva JM, "The visual details, although 'Flawless', only add to the most prominent feature of the EVA JM that is the 'The Sound, WOW!'" Keep reading...

Finding Your Favorite Wood

One of the cool things in the journey to finding the guitar is finding the right wood that will make up that guitar. Our first choice in the standard EVA JM recipe is an easy industry standard Indian Rosewood back and sides set. Not only is Indian Rosewood selected for its beautiful grain lines, it is a great choice for the clarity and punch voiced into our guitars and our tops. It imparts a wonderful bass tone that sometimes can be absent in other woods.

Hand Cut Inlay

Although this acoustic guitar is not fully inlaid in its standard state, the Mother of Pearl Pederson logo is always cut by hand and inlaid by hand. The precision of cutting and in-setting this inlay shows you more of hand made quality that make up these master grade guitars.

The side dots on this guitar are 1/16” or 3/32” in size and mark out the traditionally standard fret locations.

Pinless Bridge

Part of the design of the EVA JM acoustic guitar is to utilize a pinless style bridge. For the player, it is a lower maintenance way to change the strings to speed up that process. Also with this particular bridge structure, it is designed to reduce the weight on the top, yet have the mass needed to support the bone saddle and the string tension placed on the bridge.

Finishing Touches

The EVA JM is the more traditional acoustic design of ours, and has the round sound hole in the typical position at the end of the fingerboard. When ordering this guitar, the non-cutaway version is the standard choice. The cut-away is optional on this model as are the cut away bevels and the arm rest bevel. The engineered sound port on the side is also an option.

At the nut and bridge location we are using bleached bone for its hardness and its bright tone. The Gotoh 510 tuners are also a new standard and they are arguably the best tuners in this price range on the market today.