OK so I just posted this picture in my “new member” thread, but here are my two archtops. The brunette is a Loar LH-700 fitted with a ’53 DeArmond Guitar Mike. It needed some light luthier work but is an amazing guitar, and the pickup is wonderful. The blonde is a fairly new acquisition: a ’53 Höfner 465 with a great Rhythm Chief (I have not yet determined the year but it must be a ‘60s piece. The sound through the pickup is wonderful. The acoustic sound is more metallic than the voice of the Loar and I think I’ll have to experiment a bit with strings.
I dream of getting an old Epiphone and sooner or later I will, despite that I am in Europe and life is unfair to vintage archtop wannabe-collectors in the Old World…
PS: Hi Jeff, glad to find you here mate!
