Archtop Guitars

The aptly named Deluxe is quite fancy – we could call it Epiphone’s competitive interpretation of the Gibson L-5.   It is boldly decorated with a 7” long headstock featuring a two-ply bordered  polished pearwood overlay that hosts the “Epiphone” logo in fat mother of pearl script.    Thereunder is found a  floret comprised of 8 leaves, a 3 7/8” long vine and three flowers.   Its Brazilian rosewood fingerboard is inlaid with six large cloud shaped mother of pearl inlays, and at the 15th fret is a mother of pearl block.  

This guitar is made from walnut on the back and sides, a solid spruce top, and sports a five-piece maple neck with twin stripes of walnut. This dark, handsome guitar’s interior paper label reads “This Epiphone Masterbilt Instrument, Model BROADWAY, No. 10805, Guarantee (to original purchaser when registered at factory at time of purchase) against defects in materials and workmanship.  Metal and other parts that receive wear excepted.  Epiphone Inc.   New York.  U.S.A.”     It is a fairly fancy model having a 7” long asymmetrical headstock bordered in crème ivoroid.

 

We present a 17” wide, 42 1/3” long, 25” scale, 3” deep rim, apparently all-solid wood, flamed maple back and sides archtop whose top is a closely, parallel-grained spruce.   It features a long (8”) polished black peghead overlay boasting a large, stylized capital letter “P” and no other inlaid decoration, however said ‘stock has a four-ply, white-black border with ivoroid outermost, which continues down the front edges of the black ebony fingerboard, including on its squared off terminus.

This guitar is a collaboration between noted California based designer Ribbecke and high quality Japanese production company in the Kiso region of Japan.   In a reproduction of a brochure from the builder, a website called <wireonfire> states the specifications of this very beautiful brand of guitar, as follows.  We cannot be sure that every specification stated below applies to this particular model, but most of them might.

This vintage era Gibson L-7 is stately and elegant, being made in all dark colors and also being non-cutaway.   It epitomizes the acoustic “big band” archtop of the ‘40s and ’50s.     The guitar is 17” wide, as is an L-5, and fundamentally made out of the same materials as an L-5 – being maple back and sides with a spruce top.  From its black polished headstock to its uniform brown sides and back and three-piece darkly finished maple neck this is, in every way, a thing of beauty.

Features include a floating Bartolini pickup and a single control for volume on the elevated carved ebony pickguard.   

We present to you the middle of the line John Buscarino acoustic archtop cutaway jazz guitar with a floating black humbucking pickup. This is an exceedingly fancy instrument – from the polished ebony headplate with the shining white Buscarino script logo with the large mother of pearl and abalone keystone decoration thereunder; to the flame maple bindings on fingerboard and body, back and sides

This astonishingly classy guitar came in with no case – but we will provide it a new plush lined hard shell case.    

For right now, this cannot be delivered to you since it’s in Repair and a person has reserved it with a $100 deposit.  However, if you wish to be added to the list with a “Second Right of Refusal” please inquire below.   It’s a great opportunity to own a traditional archtop that will please you in every way possible.  Our Discount Price is $3,350.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $3,250.00.

We present to our readers and fans a truly gorgeous Gibson mostly 1964 Model ES-175, in vintage sunburst which was stated to us by its owner as being in excellent [it's not, exactly] and mostly original [it's not that either] condition, presently having two humbucking nickel-plated pickups.  Although altered, this guitar fulfills the dream of the working jazz practitioner who needs to get the finest sound possible out of a modestly priced vintage instrument.  NOW ON SALE!  WAS $5670 BUT NOW: 

Old-World craftsmanship at its Finest
Private reserve tonewoods & deluxe appointments
Carved spruce top, carved maple back and sides
Classic Venetian cutaway, floating pickup design

The Eastman List Price is $3750

John D’Angelico, considered the finest independent guitar builder of the 20th Century, or at least for the first two-thirds of that century, made a keystone model that he called “New Yorker.”   This was an elaborately decorated instrument, made of the most select woods and built on a large platform (possibly because John was vertically challenged) measuring approximately 18” in body width. 

 

24 3/4" scale length, 20 fret dot rosewood board, one piece mahogany neck joins the body at the 14th fret, 20 1/4" body length, 16" width with 2 3/4" rim, solid carved cream bound, curly maple top back and rim

This modern version of the classic 6120 Chet Atkins Hollow Body guitar features a 16"-wide, 2.5"-deep full hollow body, rock maple neck, ebony fingerboard with Neo-Classic™ "thumbnail" inlays, dual High Sensitive Filter'Tron™ pickups, Grover® Rotomatic® machine heads, Adjusto-Matic™ bridge, and Bigsby® B6G vibrato tailpiece. Available in Deep Orange Stain, Blue Burst and Black. Left-handed model available in Deep Orange Stain.
The Gretsch List Price is $3450

All of the proceeds of the sale will benefit the family of one of our most honored suppliers: the late Master Guitar Builder, John Zeidler. Here’s the background: “When fourteen of the world’s finest guitar makers decided to honor and support a colleague, they produced a unique and remarkable instrument - The Zeidler Project guitar. J. R. Zeidler was well known in the community of archtop makers. 

Sam Koontz was a guitar builder who was decades ahead of his time. Regrettably, he died while young but his instruments, in extremely short supply, have become legendary. This is a large body standard design acoustic archtop bearing a DeArmond gold-plated floating pickup in the position just below the end of the 5-ply bordered ebony fingerboard.
WAS $41,234 NOW ON SALE FOR: