While partaking of its ineffable beauty and sonic resplendence a dexterous
player may swoon from the unceasing pleasure. Made completely made by the hand
of a single illustrious crafter this 17” jazz monolith has a carved and solid
Sitka spruce top, equally carved and solid big leaf maple back and sides, a
flame maple neck, burled maple peghead face and back veneer as well as burled
heel cap and end graft. Its elegant appointments include a black ebony
fingerboard inlaid with fancy split-block mother of pearl inlays with
corresponding side dots, and said ‘board is bound with curly maple binding – and
so are the sides of the instrument. When Bill does the f-holes he inlays actual
wood purfling into the spruce – and although the color of the spruce matches the
color of the maple truth be told the bindings are not maple. Bill calls this
the Chester
Avenue because one of his earlier shops was in fact
on an Avenue that bore the same name. This builder calls this finish color
“autumn’burst.” Bill Comins avers that he believes that he, himself, coined
this phrase and all other builders that use it must from now on send him $5
royalty fee in cash in a white envelope-within-a-brown-envelope if you don’t
mind; thank you. We have just sent him $5 for just printing the term
here.
This incredibly beautiful
professional quality acoustic-electric is equipped with Gotoh 510
tuners sporting
ebony buttons, and for playing while amplified it is provided a Kent Armstrong
floating PAF type pickup with 12 individual pole pieces. To enhance your sense
of control, there are twin burled maple volume and tone knobs mounted to the
pickguard. The body depth is uniformly3 1/8”; the nut width is 1 ¾”; the
string spacing at the bridge, per the builder’s specifications, whatever it is,
is beyond correct – it is perfect! Comins guitars are played visibly and in
public by such luminaries as Rick Stone, called “One of the finest
straight-ahead guitarists on the current NYC jazz scene,” Vic Juris, who has
played with Jimmy Smith, Mel Torme and Larry Coryell, and D.C. guitarist Steve
Herberman, recently shown on the cover of Just Jazz Magazine with his Comins. You
can own one of the finest new archtop jazz guitars – a commanding and creditable
Colossus in the contemporary world of uncompromised six-strings for only: