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Standard Hollow-body Spruce top,
Bigsby model
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6-string, Redwood burl top
(available at Willcutt Guitar Shoppe) |
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Valiant,Tiger Eye finish
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Standard Hollow body Quilt top,
Natural finish |
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T Deluxe, Clear top
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Model T, Deluxe, Emerald green Here is another of those amazing pieces of quilted Maple that defy description. You can almost feel a texture to the wood, despite the fact that the top is flat. 3D hardly describes it. The body and neck are Honduras Mahogany which have been finished in a clear, natural gloss. The Mahogany used for this guitar is also very lightweight, so it ended up being one of those really toneful instruments. The Amalfitano humbuckers sound great on this guitar.
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Standard
solid-body, Wine Red finish
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Model T, Flat Top, Walnut I found this lovely piece of Claro Walnut in my wood pile, and the customer for this guitar snapped it up in a hurry. It looks really good on the Walnut stained figured Mahogany body. The guitar is a little unusual in that it has black outer binding which gives it a bit of a subdued appearance, but the grain of the Walnut is so wild that it still hits you straight between the eyes. I used an Ebony fingerboard to match all the black plastic parts, and the chrome on the bridge and the tuners are the only exceptions to the dark theme. The guitar has a pair of Amalfitano Vintage P90s with that authentic, "old" sound. |
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The Giffin Valiant six-string solid body, Amber burst |
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For a more in depth description of the
Valiant single-cut design, please go to the new "Valiant"page. Here,
on the custom page, I'll just give a brief breakdown of the first instrument
(shown in these pictures). For the guitar shown here, I used a one-piece Honduras Mahogany body which sadly, I can't often find these days. It's a slightly thicker body than I use on my regular Standard 6-string double cut-away. The neck is laminated Mahogany and hard Maple with an Indian Rosewood fingerboard. I used a Maple top that is somewhere between quilt and flame which looks very pretty with the Amber burst finish. Cream celluloid binding finishes off the whole thing very nicely. Pickups are Amalfitano PAFs with Alnico2 magnets for a real vintage sound. The bridge is a TonePros AVT2 and the tuners are Sperzel Solid Pros. The sound of this guitar has all the depth and richness that one has come to expect from an instrument of this type. |
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Valiant Baritone,
Goldtop There is a Maple top underneath that gold paint and the body and neck are Mahogany. The guitar has a 27 1/2 inch scale Rosewood fingerboard which is perfect for the low B tuning. The pickups are a pair of
new old stock Gibson P90s with magnets which came from a pair of 1964
pickups. These things sound absolutely authentic vintage. I used
a TonePros bridge and a set of Sperzel Solid Pro tuners. The wiring on
this one has two volumes and one master tone. Very cool guitar.
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Standard
hollow-body "long-scale," Tiger Eye finish
It's got Lollar Imperial humbuckers which run through a CAE Jangletone Preamp and a Tonestyler rotary tone control. The two mini switches on the front of the body are an on/off switch for the preamp and a coil tap which operates both pickups. It has a TonePros bridge and Gotoh 510 series tuners. As always Tiger Eye works well on any figures wood and gives this Redwood a warm glow. The back of the body and neck are stained to match the dark part of the burst on the front. |
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