Arias made some of the most amazing rosettes and also experimented widely with his guitar-making including using double backs, Bouchet-type braces and soundports. However, as this guitar shows he also made guitars in the simplest style which were obviously for more modest clients and he probably made a lot of them. The very plain wood and the simple rosette speak of the type of guitar that the folk players used at the turn of the century. Although this guitar has very old machine heads fitted you can see from the thickness of the head, and from the taper, that it was originally made for wooden pegs. The design of the head slots indicate that the conversion was not done by Arias himself.