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January 25th, 2008, 08:55 PM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Mason, MI
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Budget archtop?
Your budget archtop recommendations? EDIT:Sorry, found thread.
BTW - I saw some shots of some of the new Harmony archtops at NAMM and they look sweet! Can't find the link, I'll post it when I do. HARMONY Last edited by Freedom Fries; January 25th, 2008 at 09:13 PM. Reason: found TDPRI thread |
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January 25th, 2008, 11:41 PM
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Tele-Holic
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I've been waiting for those to hit the stores. I think there''s good potential there. Even the old Gibson 125's are going for $1800 which is insane.
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January 25th, 2008, 11:46 PM
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Poster Extraordinaire
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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Check out Gary Stroup's work, well worth the very reasonable price(s)....
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January 26th, 2008, 02:50 AM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: crawfordsville In.
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i was able to build this thing for a good friend of mine for about 600.00 bucks
solid spruce top. solid maple back and sides, maple neck with ebony fingerboard. the green paint was a paint to mix up right. but it turned out pretty decent for my first one, my girlfriend plays a washburn archtop for practice that was about 300.00 bucks new or something, its not bad for what it is, the acoustics could be better tho.   and yes i did put knobs on it, but he could not decide what he wanted for about 3 weeks after it was done so it looked like this for a while. |
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January 26th, 2008, 09:18 AM
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Robert, when you say you built that, what exactly did you do? Did you build it from scratch and form the sides and top and all that, or what?
I spent last night blowing off some steam and tried out a lot of guitars at the store. All of the Epi archtops were very nice, including two or three Sheratons, a Casino, and a Joe Pass model. All were $599 w/o the case. It's been a long time since I tried one, but the Ibanez archtops were also very nice.
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January 26th, 2008, 09:32 AM
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Staten Island, NYC
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oscar schmidt on MF
150>>200 dollars last time I looked I have an black OE30 that strangely arrived without the Delta King logo on the headstock My son records with it An indy band from NYC>>>> "And You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Dead" recorded an most of an album with one... I put cheap PAF clones in mine and love its tone and thin fast neck... My Oscar sparked four other sales at my sons High School when players asked to check it out.. they did not get such a thin neck as mine though.... now I gotta go get it out of his room... |
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January 26th, 2008, 05:21 PM
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Friend of Leo's
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I have an Ibanez Artcore and I can't believe how nice it is for the price. Actually, regardless of the price!
 
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January 26th, 2008, 05:47 PM
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Staten Island, NYC
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Artcores
What ever possessed Ibanez to put a lightning bolt
on the headstock... it seems so "out of character" with the overall traditional classic vibe of that otherwise killer guitar 
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January 27th, 2008, 05:01 AM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Jan 2008
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i mean i hand carved that thing and bent the sides, made the entire thing from scratch, if you wish i have build pics from day one.
i had a thought on a budget archtop, i have see a few kay archtops go for cheap online and they good thing about them is that they are generally solid wood and decently built, and thru the years they tend to sound better but you will have to deal with the issues of a 40 year old guitar. |
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January 27th, 2008, 12:29 PM
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