The Blue Guitar

[Robin, Wales]

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson

Photo courtesy of Rudy Pensa.

Absolutely beautiful, but not for me! Mind you, nor is anything good looking and new. Whenever I see a guitar I imagine myself playing it in my usual haunts: the local pub, the local open mic', friends house parties, a wet and windy clifftop campsite in Pembrokeshire.... With me Carter picking cowboy chord songs..... You get the picture!

Tatty clothing and a tatty guitar I just find so much more comfortable. I even look at my second hand plywood Godin 5th Avenue and hope that it will gain some signs of wear soon and not look quite so "smart". LOL!!!

[Eucatastrophe]

Originally Posted by MCDEMO1

The only blue guitar I have owned is a 90's era flat top Alvarez Yairi DY-88 like Chris Smither use to play.



But Wallace Stevens also made me search for blue guitars in general and a few archtops made the cut, including the Monteleone already called out by Howard Emerson.



Here are links to a few others:



An interesting new blue and brown combination by Tab Brown at Dream guitars:



https://www.dreamguitars.com/shop/in...ce-461221.html



A few older links:



https://www.finearchtops.com/for-sale/blue-siren/



https://reverb.com/item/35402997-200...aurora-archtop





More of a 335 style Eastman:



http://guitarsnjazz.com/product/east...-case-2101398/

Though I’m personally on the hunt for the Lollar equipped Eastman Romeo, I have first refusal on an incoming Romeo LA which is a beautiful Celestine Blue! Will update you soon. IMG_1650750193.387072.jpg

[Bluemonk]

https://www.instagram.com/theblueguitars/

[drive-south]

I played a Romeo a while back with a Goldburst finish. It played great and was light as a feather.

When I think of guitars with transparent blue finish, I think PRS. Weren't they the first modern builder to do this finish (circa early 90's). D'Aquisto was probably the first to build a fully carved guitar with this finish.

Rumour has it Eastman has a custom shop in CA. I don't see why they couldn't build you one of their carve-top guitars and finish it in blue.

[Walter_in_BTV]

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson

Not long from now I'll be playing both the original by Jimmy D'Aquisto & the Monteleone (2nd & 3rd from bottom left).

The last time I saw them was at the original unveiling at The 20th Century Guitar Show at 5 Towns College!

Photo courtesy of Rudy Pensa.

I'm sure they've both faded a little bit, but haven't we all?

HE

That's sure true for me. And I'm also turning a little green around the gills as well.

[skypeace]

Originally Posted by tbeltrans

Johnny Smith, The Man With The Blue Guitar...



Tony

Thank you for sharing this. There was a time when I couldn't sit still for music like this, what a poverty of the spirit that was.

[Tricky Fish]

Not my cup of tea, but i thought of this piece when i read the thread title:

[Dogma]

Originally Posted by jtacoustic

The Tad Brown you mention is the guitar which got me thinking about this. I remember the Chnery Collection and admired many of those blue archtops but you do not see many beyond those.

I simultaneously love and hate (maybe a strong word) the Tad Brown. Never have I had quite the same reaction to an instrument.

OK, I'll bite - care to explain? I have no particular affiliation - though I have seen and heard some of his instruments - but was caught by the characterization.

[Mycroft]

[Glennwillow]

Originally Posted by jtacoustic

While I appreciate the sharing of blue electric solid bodies, I was hoping to generate a conversation about Blue archtops as the original thread is posted in the archtop forum.

Blue is relatively common in solidbody color but on archtops it is few and far between with the exception of the Chinery Collection.

So, what say you... Is blue on an archtop a tacky novelty or a cool option to the usual blonde and sunburst?

I think the blue guitars in the Chinery collection look amazing! But I have never owned a blue guitar until I recently acquired a Stratocaster with a sort of reverse-burst blue color.

I could have been tempted to buy a blue archtop guitar because I think they look so interesting, but my wife really doesn't like blue guitars, so I have resisted.

My archtop is a fairly typical tobacco sunburst, which looks great, but... well, it's not blue.

- Glenn