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07-26-2016, 03:14 PM
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Scoop Cutaway History
Hello everyone. I'm going to be doing some videos for Faith Guitar line in the next week. One of them has a scoop cutaway and I'm curious about the history of this design and possibly where it came from. It's different than typical cutaways.
Here's a link of what I'm talking about. If you're a builder, feel free to chime in as this interest me. http://www.faithguitars.com/guitars/...45-bnc-parlour 
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07-26-2016, 03:55 PM
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the first time I saw this feature was on guitars built by noted English luthier and gentleman, Nick Benjamin.
It is known in the Uk as the "Benjamin scoop" http://www.benjaminguitars.co.uk/
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07-26-2016, 03:59 PM
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Al Carruth and Burton LeGeyt have used that style, but I don't think either of them claims to be the original designer.
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07-26-2016, 05:17 PM
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Scoop
The first time I saw one was about 5 years ago on a guitar built by a guy by the name of Morrison.
He had a few other neat design features that he incorporated into his guitars too. An unique feature was that the neck pivot on a mounting bolt and there was a second bolt that "pinched" the neck so you could adjust the angle. Kind of hard to describe, but it eliminated neck resets. He also had an adjustable internal baffle on some guitars. Pretty innovative stuff, not sure if it caught on.
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07-26-2016, 07:24 PM
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Another might be Richard Brune in Evanston. Classical builder. He and his son do them. You might ask them if they have any knowledge about it. Richard's a real guitar historian, at least where it comes to classicals.
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07-27-2016, 12:06 AM
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Joel Michaud uses that shape.
http://acousticguitarforum.com/forum...=415686&page=5 Steve Sheriff (Edwinson) made one for a recent guitar of his. http://acousticguitarforum.com/forum...d.php?t=428698 The Avian Songbird, designed by Michael Bashkin, has one. http://www.dreamguitars.com/detail/3...osewood_99999/
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07-27-2016, 03:17 AM
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Wow, didn't know so many makers copied Nick Benjamin !
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Silly Moustache, Just an old Limey acoustic guitarist, Dobrolist, mandolier and singer. I'm here to try to help and advise and I offer one to one lessons/meetings/mentoring via Zoom!
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07-27-2016, 03:24 AM
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Quote:
http://www.melodist-net.com/~harpgui...agamookEng.htm It turns out that Micky Uchida has been using scoop cutaways (and all manner of other unorthodox cutaways) since 1998 or 2000. Nick Benjamin freely admits that he did not invent the scoop cutaway (he only started building in his own workshop in 1998). http://www.benjaminguitars.co.uk/options.htm
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