Laminate

Art & Lutherie Legacy HG Q-Discrete Indigo Burst

On May 1, 2020 /

Here’s a very good looking, cool Art & Lutherie Legacy HG sporting a high-gloss Indigo Burst finish and Godin’s Q-Discrete pickup set, with volume and tone controls right on the solid Spruce top. 95% of the woods used in this model are sourced from Canada. Using a body design similar to the classic OM Orchestra Model, the Art & Lutherie Legacy features a solid Spruce top for tone, paired with 3-layer laminate Wild Cherry Back & Sides for stability and durability. The neck is locally sourced Silver Leaf Maple with Indian Rosewood used for the 16-inch radius fingerboard and bridge.

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Godin 5th Ave Uptown TR Red GT with Bigsby, 2014

On April 19, 2020 /

The Godin 5th Ave Uptown GT, now discontinued, was one of the many forms the 5th Ave Uptown has taken since its launch in 2008. Here it is equipped with a pair of Duncan humbuckers a licensed Bigsby B30 tailpiece and a ‘pinned’ floating bridge. Archtop F-hole guitars were very popular from the 1930s into the 1950s, until advances in amplification allowed stage volumes to dramatically rise. Gibson’s groundbreaking ES-335 thinline was the first successful blending of the archtop tone with the feedback resistance of solidbody models.

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Guild X170 Archtop Electric Blonde, 1988

On April 6, 2020 /

The Guild X170, also called the ‘Mini Manhattan’ was built from 1985 until 2002 as a fully hollow electric archtop with laminated Maple body, Maple neck and Rosewood fingerboard. Here we’re looking at a Guild X170 dating to late 1988 and built in Westerly, Rhode Island. It’s in very good clean condition with very little wear of any kind. The clear, natural finish is in great shape and nicely shows off the light figuring of the Maple top, back and sides. The neck uses a five-piece construction with three Maple sections separated by two thin Walnut layers.

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Kay Old Kraftsman Red Devil K592 Thinline Electric Red, 1962

On January 23, 2020 /

Here is a very cool piece from 1962 – a Kay Old Kraftsman Red Devil model K592, the top of the Speed Demon line, built for the Spiegel catalog and direct mail company. This model was built between 1962 and 1965. Kay began in 1931 as the successor to the Stromberg-Voisinet, which was itself the 1921 successor to the Groeschel company, founded in 1890. Based in Chicago, Illinois, for a time Kay was one of the largest instrument builders in the USA, and supplied many catalog companies and department stores.

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Collings I35 LC Deluxe Thinline Archtop Guitar Sunburst 2015

On January 6, 2020 /

This is a treat – a Collings I35 LC Deluxe thinline archtop electric in a traditional sunburst, one of the best renderings of this concept available. This model draws from the iconic and once revolutionary Gibson ES-335 series, with a Maple laminate body around a Maple center block, and Mahogany neck with Indian Rosewood fingerboard. It’s wired using a 1950’s style layout, with a pair of Lollar Imperial Low-Wind humbuckers. This Collings I35 LC Deluxe example was built during 2015 at the Collings shop in Austin, Texas. It is in all original, very good condition. While it’s been played, wear is light.

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Guild X150 Savoy Cutaway Single Pickup Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1961

On January 4, 2020 /

The Guild X150 Savoy is a single cutaway carved Spruce top guitar, built from 1954 to 1965 in single and dual pickup (X150D) models and natural or sunburst finishes. Currently, the new Guild Guitar company under Ren Ferguson – who ran the Gibson Acoustic shop in Bozeman – offers the Guild A-150 Savoy model, with a neck-mount deArmond pickup. Guild’s origins spring from the Epiphone company’s labour troubles following the death of founder Epi Stathopoulos in 1943.

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Laminate

Art & Lutherie Legacy HG Q-Discrete Indigo Burst

Godin 5th Ave Uptown TR Red GT with Bigsby, 2014

Guild X170 Archtop Electric Blonde, 1988

Kay Old Kraftsman Red Devil K592 Thinline Electric Red, 1962

Collings I35 LC Deluxe Thinline Archtop Guitar Sunburst 2015

Guild X150 Savoy Cutaway Single Pickup Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1961

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