[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Jeff M

Kim Walker;
http://www.walkerguitars.com/cremona.htm

http://www.walkerguitars.com/excel.htm

Stephen Grimes;

http://www.grimesguitars.com/models/laureate_fs.html


If interested in arch tops, you might enjoy the book "Blue Guitar" by Ken Vose (published by Chronicle Books).

It is a look at the 22 arch top guitars commissioned by Scott Chinery.
Chinery commissioned some of the finest archtop builders of the day to make him guitars, the only requirement being that they be finished with the same lightning blue finish used on a Centura Deluxe built by Jimmy D'Aquisto that he owned.

The resultant collection is a fine example of the "art of the archtop", and has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum.

Builders include Benedetto Buscarino, Campellone, Comins, D'Leco guitars, Fender and Gibson custom shop, Grimes, Hollenbeck, Mark Lacey, Bozo Podunavac, Jim Triggs, Collings Manzer, Megas, Monteleone, Nickerson, Ribbecke, Scharpach, Walker, Zeidler.

...and if you want to hear those guitars, played in sequence in 20 second segments, get 'Masterpiece Guitars' by Martin Taylor and Steve Howe who were given unfettered access to the Chinery collection to make an outstanding record featuring some amazing vintage and modern instruments.
The track featuring the blue guitars is, of course, 'Blue Bossa'.