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Old 09-13-2010, 03:26 PM
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Parker PJ Series is a little different. I just read a nasty review on one while looking for the photo, so without playing one, and seeing they've been discontinued, I'd not recommend. http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv134/EliasGraves/PJ12.jpg
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:34 PM
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Woven bamboo!



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Nice one, BDLH! I wonder what the brand name is. Robinson Crusoe?
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Nice one, BDLH! I wonder what the brand name is. Robinson Crusoe?
I took the images from this thread: handmade bamboo top tele - Telecaster Guitar Forum

The poster made that guitar as well as a bamboo-capped Tele.
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Old 12-08-2010, 12:02 AM
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I wonder how this one sounds:

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Old 12-08-2010, 07:24 AM
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I wonder how this one sounds:
Eh, if this was the GearPage, that guitar would warrant a "meh" UNLESS it was suffliciently "reliced". Good thing it's near a pond, maybe they could drop it in the drink a few times.
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Nice Green Dolphin Streak
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Time to resurrect an old thread, well it's just a poor excuse to drool and G.A.S

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I realize it's entirely personal taste, but that last one is ugly, to me. (Sorry, jazzbow! )
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Wait a minute. I just perused the entire thread. Most of them are ugly.

Okay, I get it. Carry on ...
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i like my metheny. I think it's kind of art deco

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this is not revolutionary, but its not exactly conservative either. its.....fancy. i like the "honeyburst" finish.


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Let me right this ship.

Guitar Blog: A Flying V for jazzers?
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Wow! This one is outstanding! I love it!
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wow, interesting. i predict low sales however. very looooow sales.
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wow, interesting. i predict low sales however. very looooow sales.
Yes, sales of 1. I got interested and found the luthier posting about it here:
Archtop V

I bet it actually sounded nice with the hollow body and Kent Armstrong.
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I bet it would be killer for a chord melody version of "Rock You Like a Hurricane".
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If you turn that Ken parker olive branch over the back and sides are stunning.
How about these curious shaped Bosma guitars?
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Old 04-22-2011, 01:09 PM
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OMG!! Still LOL. How can you not love the sense of fun that produces that?
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Anybody like this?
Love it. I love the body shape and small sound hole too. I'm a sucker for some glitz. Who's the maker?
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Maker is Todt Aschado
And this is where it starts to get a bit complicated (I love this place). Aschado guitars come from the shop of Alfred Gustav Schaufuss. There is a connection between some of his guitars and those built by Herbert Todt, expressed in the uniquely high-waisted design of their instruments - both were members of Migma ( a buying cooperative). They probably supplied each other with parts (typical of the German builders) or subbed out some of the building to each other. And they were related through marriage, if memory serves.

The German makers and companies often made up brand names from their names combined with place names: Alosa, Astro, Aschado, Eroma, Esge, Este, Isana, Marma, Migma, Musima, Oebra, Osbama, Otwin, and more.

As per a variety of guitars posted on this thread by Stefan Lob (stelol), there's lots of info about various West German and East German archtop builders on his website Schlaggitarren.de &ndash; Willkommen as well as on the group I moderate European Guitars Forums &bull; Index page.

These are the two main sources of info regarding the parallel world of German archtops, if anyone is interested.

Also, BigDaddyLoveHandles, the Hofner 461 in post #8 is probably a refin (they came in a Fordian colour palette - any colour so long as it was black) with an added pickup. The Hofner blade pickup is from the late '60's but the guitar is from before 1960 (no adjustable truss rod). The sound-holes are directly based on those of a viola d'amore. There are two main sources of info about Hofner: Steve Russell's site http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/cont.html, as well as "Hofnerhounds", a group that I moderate as well http://www.hofner.co.uk/.

To those of you scratching the surface of German archtops, here's a good explanation of what you are in for from my pal Johnny Keats:

On first looking into Chapman’s Homer:

MUCH have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.


Yeah, silent. No kidding. Wild surmise indeed. There's a whole other ocean out there, and it's pretty deep.
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Not quite - the maker is Alfred Gustav Schaufuss. From Adorf, hence the Ashado name. The German makers and companies often made up brand names from their names combined with place names: Alosa, Astro, Aschado, Eroma, Esge, Este, Isana, Marma, Migma, Musima, Oebra, Osbama, Otwin, and more.

As per a variety of guitars posted on this thread by Stefan Lob (stelol), there's lots of info about various West German and East German archtop builders on his website Schlaggitarren.de &ndash; Willkommen as well as on the group I moderate European Guitars Forums &bull; Index page.

These are the two main sources of info regarding the parallel world of German archtops, if anyone is interested.

Also, BigDaddyLoveHandles, the Hofner 461 in post #8 is probably a refin (they came in a Fordian colour palette - any colour so long as it was black) with an added pickup. The sound-holes are directly based on those of a viola d'amore. There are two main sources of info about Hofner: Steve Russell's site Hofner Guitars - Steve Russell's Vintage Hofner Index Page, as well as "Hofnerhounds", a group that I moderate as well Hofner Guitars Internet Community &bull; Index page.
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Old 06-14-2011, 01:01 AM
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I love mine: beautiful (to my taste), different, simple, nice sounding and very comfortable.
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I am completely in love (which seems appropriate):
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Here's one, looks exquisitly made but...... It don't shake me tree
Made by Mr Rorerto Canova over in Italy
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