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Three New Leach Customs - Two Dreads & An Archtop
Arrived over the weekend three custom Leach guitars....
All three are very unique instruments.... with the Brazilian Bresh dread a real killer with it's booming bass and glassy trebles...and is a work of art. I took this guitar out to my gig on Saturday night I was so impressed with it! The Fall Fantasy has a spectacular redwood top and quilted maple... it has a little less bottom end than the Brazilian Bresh.... but just a little. The electric is a Travis Special Archtop with alamed maple top, back, sides and neck. This is a replica of a Super 400 that Merle had custom made with a solid maple top to get the sustain and tone of a solid body combined with the look of his signature archtop. Hand-made P-90 pickups. I thought it was so spectacular that I wound up buying all three guitars!
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A brand new duet I wrote with my daughter: https://youtu.be/u0hRB7fYaZU Olson Brazilian Dread #1325 Olson Brazilian SJ #1350 Olson Tiger Myrtle Dread #1355 Olson Brazilian Jumbo #1351 Olson 12-string Jumbo (one of only a few) Martin D-42 Johnny Cash #51/200 (only 80 made) And a few others Quite a few limited edition and rare Martins ----------------- http://www.kekomusic.com Last edited by cpabolting; 11-12-2014 at 11:10 PM. |
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Congratulations! That must really be quite exciting. Harv is an artist with his builds and, to me, there is nothing quite as beautiful as a nice curly Maple archtop guitar with a sunburst like that.
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holy cow. Beautiful stuff!
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Glad they finally made it to their new home!
Harv
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Harvey - simply stunning work!
The Bigsby/Travis look is so distinctive - it's wonderful to see such a playful-yet-respectful update. Love the zero frets, too. When will the stigma fade that these were somehow only for cheap guitars? Gorgeous! Cheers, Martin |
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Gorgeous. I especially like that archtop.
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Really really nice. And refreshing!
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Nice haul. Harv has a few I want too, I just don't have any money. LOL I do have an LS, Tree Mahogany with a one piece back at my house from Harv, sadly its for sale not for me to keep. :-(
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All three guitars are very nice -- but the headstock on the archtop is outstanding.
I also really like the burst maple back. Enjoy, Keith. |
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I wasn't sure about he different headstocks on the dreads at first, but they are actually really cool and I am enjoying playing with them
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A brand new duet I wrote with my daughter: https://youtu.be/u0hRB7fYaZU Olson Brazilian Dread #1325 Olson Brazilian SJ #1350 Olson Tiger Myrtle Dread #1355 Olson Brazilian Jumbo #1351 Olson 12-string Jumbo (one of only a few) Martin D-42 Johnny Cash #51/200 (only 80 made) And a few others Quite a few limited edition and rare Martins ----------------- http://www.kekomusic.com |
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Travis would restring his guitars with them laying on his lap, so he wanted all the tuners on the left side, originally the scroll was on the left as well but it was in the way. They originally were strung like a Stauffer guitar with the big E longer than the little E string. The part that was most interesting to me was that they made several prototypes with varying angles and settled on the 7 deg version because it, along with switching the strings so the little E was long, had just the right feel for the way he played. He liked that the very short big E string tightened it up and the long little E was a bit looser. Harv
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The dreads look nice, especially as a pair. I also change strings with the guitar on my lap and I always sweat it when I get to the treble side. |
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The inlays on the headstock of the "Fall Fantasy" are some of my all-time favorites (right up there with and orchid vine I recently did ) Growing up in Vermont I really wanted to try and capture the colors and movement I remembered. All the materials are natural wood which really helps to maintain an organic feel.
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