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From a builder's perspective a true archtop would have a carved and graduated thickness soundboard and back engineered for a pretty specific tone quality and projection. Manufactured archtops devolved from there to different quality solid and laminated and pressed tops and backs. Add pickup systems to suit, soundblocks to control feedback and you have created an entirely different category.
I have no beef with any of the above and own/build several varieties, they all serve their purpose and sound but for my 2c carved is king. |
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Many "production" guitars from the 30's, 40's and 50's had carved tops.
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discussed in a hollow body electric forum - but not all of them. They're still archtops with tailpieces, bridges, intionation issues, neck issues and even tone wood issues. There is a real slippery slope to exclude one model over another. For example, my big archtop - made in 2006 - has a pickup. Some of the old Harmonies don't. I have a solid carved top and back. No lam. A Godin Fifth Avenue is a fine guitar. But it has lam and no pickup. An ES335 has two pickups and lam plus a thin body. Mine is deeper, wider and likely louder acoustically, given the same set of strings than either the Godin or the ES335. Who gets excluded first? If it's the Gibson, would I get excluded if I put a second pickup on mine? Or would the size of my guitar keep it qualified? If we go by size - then it gets very complicated as there are varying depths and widths to consider. To disqualify one that is only marginally smaller than another seems arbitrary. I think they're all archtops. IMO, there are electric archtops, acoustic archtops and acoustic-electric archtops. Mine's the latter. But I record it mostly plugged in.
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Hello and 2 cents.....
Hello Archtopians....
Its my first post on this forum...though I've been seen at times on the jazz guitar forum, guild forum and UMGF, usually posting about archtop guitars of many sorts. I haven't visited the AGF in years and was pleasantly surprised to see an archtop section! I wanted to comment in favor of a free interpretation of "archtops" including those that are carved or pressed, solid or laminated, designed to be acoustics, electrics or some combination thereof.... We can all feel free to ignore those topics that don't interest us or seek out those that do.....each post or thread will sort all that out and I'm sure some intermingling will help inform those that would like to know about how and why the differences exist. Z Last edited by zizala; 12-28-2013 at 09:11 PM. |
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Agreed... They all serve different functions and are uniquely different from solid body electrics. I have a little hollow body laminate washburn archtop with a neck mount p/u but I mic it because of it's unusual acoustic sound. Kind of an early English beat [boxy] rhythm voice. It is a sound I am trying to replicate. Love the pre war Epis too.
Happy to see an Archtop section at all... |
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Let's face it, there simply aren't that many acoustic archtop players out there.
Everytime I check the forum there's hundreds of people in the General section -- and between 0 and 2 people in the Archtop section. I think any thoughts about getting rid of pickup lovers might be a bit premature at best. |
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Other than pawn shop specials, I have never seen anyone in my area using acoustic archtops without a magnetic pickup. |
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IMHO, acoustic archtops are the most beautiful guitars -- period. However, I don't know of a lot musicians who can actually afford one. That was true decades ago when Gibson decided to introduce the ES series -- and is still true today. |
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Not that I care much but really, this forum has a total of exactly 2 threads that have had been active in the last WEEK. I had to search back over a MONTH to find a thread not meant for this forum.
I mean really, is it worth a thread to complain about something like this? It's the internet. it is imperfect. Life is too short to get irked by something this minor. |
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