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Old 12-12-2018, 09:21 AM
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Still my only archtop. I'd like to get something with PAF pickups at some point.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:21 PM
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Chords and melody in this remind me Stevie Wonder's "Cause We Ended As Lovers" that Jeff Beck played on Blow By Blow...

https://youtu.be/IriEq4H1XSU
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:44 PM
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whoops double post!

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Old 12-15-2018, 01:41 AM
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One more clip. I recorded this at a gig tonight with my phone...

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Old 12-15-2018, 09:07 AM
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One more clip. I recorded this at a gig tonight with my phone...

Wow! Really an awesome band!
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Old 12-17-2018, 05:22 PM
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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…



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Old 12-20-2018, 12:13 PM
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Godin 5th Avenue Jazz model. I bought it used from GC last December with the intention of learning how to play jazz guitar. But I actually play it more as an acoustic archtop than plugged in. Jazz lessons will start in 2019. This Godin taught me that laminated guitars are not necessarily a bad thing.
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Old 12-21-2018, 11:23 PM
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My daughter and I with my Loar 700.
A bit rough around the edges but fun nonetheless.
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Old 12-23-2018, 08:59 PM
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One more clip. I recorded this at a gig tonight with my phone...

(Um, I’m not sure you had that Fmin7#DimAugSusp9th chord quite right. But what the heck...)

Very cool — thanks for the share!
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Old 01-02-2019, 10:23 PM
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Here is a 15” Sitka/Mahogany model I built. The Sitka came from the old Bellanca Aircraft wing works in my home town. When they closed in the 80’s a guy in town got all these quarter sawn Sitka blanks that were perfect for a small archtop.

In another life the top would have been part of a wing holding a turbocharged Bellanca Super Viking in the air!

I put the Bellanca logo at the 12th fret.

It is a very comfortable size.

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Old 01-03-2019, 11:42 AM
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Here is a 15” Sitka/Mahogany model I built. The Sitka came from the old Bellanca Aircraft wing works in my home town. When they closed in the 80’s a guy in town got all these quarter sawn Sitka blanks that were perfect for a small archtop.

In another life the top would have been part of a wing holding a turbocharged Bellanca Super Viking in the air!

I put the Bellanca logo at the 12th fret.

It is a very comfortable size.

Um, you didn't by any chance use a '61 Kay Galaxie as your template, did you...?


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Old 01-03-2019, 02:28 PM
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Nothing new under the sun is there?

Cool
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Old 01-03-2019, 10:29 PM
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Picked one up last month at a flea market for $30 w/period SSC - cleaned up nicely (there was some pretty curly maple buried under six decades of crud), Kelvinator pickup sounds great, sweet neck (very much like an early-60's Gibson Slim-Taper) but needs a bridge and a good setup job as well as some incidental parts (pickup ring, truss rod cover); makes a nice rhythm box, and my wife's been looking for something smaller/lighter than my Gretsch E-Matic and Godin CW II, so it seems this one's got a bright future ahead...
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