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Archtop Photo Thread
My collection of archtops is quite miniscule compared to some I've seen around here, but beautiful to me. I acquired one without a pickup when I was a teen, but it was damaged (big crack in the top), but I played it anyway. The double-cutaway Gibson ES-347 TD is one I acquired in a package deal, when I was negotiating with a seller. When I offered to buy it, along with the Martin DC Aura he had, he gave me a super deal!
The D'Angelico "New Yorker" was dumb luck. I was involved in another auction for an identical model, and had already bid, when this one showed up for a substantially lower opening bid. I bid on that one, as well, even though I had no need for both. I was trying to figure out what I needed to do to withdraw my bid on the first one, when the seller contacted me. He told me he had underestimated the shipping cost, and wanted my permission to change the price. Was this was a Godsend, or fate, or just dumb luck??? I told him to figure out the cost of shipping, and I would figure out if I still wanted to enter a bid, but withdraw my bid for now. Since he initiated a change in the cost, I was within my rights to withdraw my bid. He didn't like it, but had no choice. Long story short, nobody else was looking for a D'Angelico that day, so I won the auction, for an unbelievably low price! Pristine condition, too! Glen
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Wow, a Sinfonietta, no less! And you built it yourself too, how cool! I thought your name looked familiar - I think I've seen it posted throughout the "news" section of Benedetto's website.
That is one gorgeous guitar, enjoy it in good health! So, if you left Benedetto, what's next?
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Yes, thats me! Thanks for the complement. I hope to continue building archtops by hand in the traditional way that I've been taught at Benedetto of course! I will be building my first few guitars soon.
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Being a straight up dread flat top player I branched out with 00 size flat tops. Had no luck with em. I got a the 52 l50 to experiment on. Fell in love with them! I tamed them better than the small bodies. The l4 is a joy. Made in 1928. It's a model t compared to a corvette in some aspects, but a true joy to own and play. The smell alone gets me goin. The recording king is the latest one. Also a great and fun lil guitar! The l50 shocks people, I ain't no jazz player but people seeing me beating out van halen tunes on em, heads turn.
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I was inspired to take this picture on the gig last night:
The BR-6 isn't actually being used there, rather I picked it up from the amp repair shop and didn't want to leave it in the car. Figured it'd look cooler on stage than stashing it with the cases off stage. My amp repair guy gave it it's first "going over" since I got it. He replaced a couple caps (all with NOS ones), a tube, the complete wrong valued fuse that was on it, and put on a three prong power cable. Sounds awesome - I'd intended to plug it in on the gig, but I was running late and didn't have time to "experiment." Still it sounded amazing when I picked it up. Here's the rest of the family: The full list in my sig, but there's also a 2010 Eastman 810CE in the picture, and my old Franken-ES150 made out of a thinline fully hollow mid-90's plywood Washburn.
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Jonathan Stout www.campusfive.com/swingguitarblog NEW ALBUM "Spreadin' Rhythm Around" - PRE-ORDER NOW: bit.ly/c5-rhythm 1932 Gibson L-5 1939 Gibson L-5 1937 Gibson ES-150 2012 National Style 1 (German Silver) 2004 Eastman 805 non-cut 2002 John LeVoi 12-fret Petite Bouche 2016 Waterloo WL-14 LTR 1939 Gibson EH-185 Vintage '47 VA-185G |
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It's a 1939 EH-185, but it must be an early one, because it's says EH-150.
Gibson was going revamp the 150, but decided to make them two separate models, but not before some went out that say "150" instead of 185.
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Jonathan Stout www.campusfive.com/swingguitarblog NEW ALBUM "Spreadin' Rhythm Around" - PRE-ORDER NOW: bit.ly/c5-rhythm 1932 Gibson L-5 1939 Gibson L-5 1937 Gibson ES-150 2012 National Style 1 (German Silver) 2004 Eastman 805 non-cut 2002 John LeVoi 12-fret Petite Bouche 2016 Waterloo WL-14 LTR 1939 Gibson EH-185 Vintage '47 VA-185G |
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Really love 'em all - especially this one.
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