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I've created this thread for ANYONE wishing to post a picture of a guitar they have made by the celebrated Mr. Wu.
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10-01-2017 01:03 PM
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?Here's just a few shots, these span the years - from one of the first guitars Wu made for the fledgling Eastman company to fall of last year when my Manhattan arrived. It's a real mishmash of photos.
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Here's my little one.
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Does he have a website?
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kissin' cousins!
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How much was that one?
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Pulling the "art" thing w/black & white. Very cool.
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$2k, after $600 for the following additional work, not counting the purchase of the Biltoft CC pickup:
Glued down loose frets
Plek-Fret dressing
Cut Fret ends
Gibson bone nut blank and install
Set up and adjustment
Installed a 5 ply Ebony pickguard - Electronics - Proper grounds installed to tailpiece
Installed a CTS 250k split shaft and replaced the original output jack
Installed a Pete Biltoft CC floating pickup
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Blondie in Long Island
Red is here in River Forest
Last edited by BigMikeinNJ; 10-02-2017 at 08:28 PM.
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Electronics, bone nut etc I understand, the loose and rough frets I don't ... Any guess shy and how?
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So getting one of these one should expect to have work done on the frets and to completely replace the electronics? Not condemning it but just trying to get details because I have wanted to order one for a while and am tempted to now that I know their website but I just want to plan ahead.
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Originally Posted by CamillusUSA
Originally Posted by rio
Member Spook410, who owns many Yunzhi, Wu, and perhaps other China made archtops, put it this way:
"The flaws seem consistent. Hardware and frets. I replace the tuners, nut, and electronics on mine. Only a few of mine have not needed this."
I anticipated going in that one should budget X amount of dollars for the "finishing" phase. Still, the cost is crazy good for a custom designed archtop.
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Check with Ms. Lora. They have less expensive archtops in their catalogue. Originally Posted by silvertonebetty
The last email address I had for her is: guitar_archtop@163.com
If for any reason that address doesn't work, PM member BIGMIKE, who for sure will have her current contact info
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did you donate Blondie? I bet you did! Originally Posted by BigMikeinNJ
Blondie in Long Island
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Great looking guitars guys.
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2B,
Yeah Blondie went to a buddy of mine, Johnny Lach, in Long Island. Poor guy stumbled over his upright bass players gig bag on stage and broke the hell out of his left hand. He's better now. I sent him Blondie because way before Blondie there was a guitar much like it we called Red that Johnny was offered by Miss Tilly (I think). It was a custom order - the seller was a real PITA demanding this and that, constantly rejecting it (via photos) and insisting on changes and improvements. Eventually this (d*ckhead) "buyer" walked away leaving Mr Wu holding the bag for the whole thing.
Johnny was offered the Red guitar at cost, there was no case. Johnny got it and had a bunch of stuff done to it. The typical fret, setup, electronics stuff. It was great. That red guitar influenced what I wanted Mr. Wu to make me - I told them, take your time, and I was very strict on what I wanted it to be... I got it right after my Mom passed away and just before I moved from Jersey to Chicago... Johnny's medical expenses required him to sell some gear, I had always pestered him to have 1st right of refusal, so when he offered his Red to me I bought it. Then after I got it I sent him Blondie - Johnny was dumbfounded I cared that much about him, his wife still to this day thinks he pulled some kind of accounting fast one on her. Even after I called and talked to her... LOL True Story
Camillus, it's really a nice guitar dude... You losing sleep yet waiting for it to arrive ???
Big
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A brotherhood of guitar players.
Anyway - doing the custom guitar thing w/Ms Lora and Mr Wu has been real fun - should ship soon.
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I wanna Wu, but don’t know whether I’d go for an old school L5 vibe or a copy of Mike Moreno’s guitar (with more conventional f-holes so I don’t look like a total fan boy)
Hmmmm
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I have a reasonable collection of guitars. Goodall, Kinscherff, Gibson, Fender CS, Heritage. I've actually hit 'max guitar' and have no more room for them. However a Mr. Wu is my primary and daily player. It's set up with acoustic strings and an acoustic pickup (Sunrise). It sounds pretty good.
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Thanks to a very good year, my employer paid out generous bonuses, and I decided to use part of it to buy a custom-made Chinese guitar. I've been in communication with Ms. Lora, who represents both Mr. Wu and Yunzhi, and after looking over the quotes, I decided to go with Mr. Wu (at a premium) over a Yunzhi.
The guitar is basically a 17 inch archtop, with a 1940s-style sunburst finish, but with a flat, classical width (2 inches) fingerboard (with block inlays) to aid my fat, stubby fingertips, which have made it nearly impossible to play my grandmother's 1933 Gibson L-7 with a 1-3/4 inch wide nut, even after having it gone over on a Plek machine. It will be 3-3/8 inch deep (standard spec is 2.75 inches depth).
It's still early in the back-and-forth with Ms. Lora, but I expect to enter into setting the final specs and paying my deposit after Chinese New Year ends in two weeks.
I expect I'll have to replace much of the the hardware and electronics, and am already thinking about a Biltoft floating CC-style pickup to replace the Wilkinson this guitar comes with. I am fortunate to have a guitar shop in the area with a Plek machine, so I can get it set up perfectly.
Considering I have only been taking lessons for 2-1/2 years, it may be premature to have a guitar custom made, except that it isn't terribly often that I have enough money to do something this extravagant.
My late uncle, Gibson clinician/salesman Andy Nelson (he designed the L-5 CT, ES-355, Dove, Epiphone Excellente, others - it's his picture in profile in that late 50s Gibson ES-355 -- with L-5 neck -- magazine ad) would probably disown me for this, but I don't have the deep pockets necessary to buy something with an American label. He almost went apoplectic when I bought my first Japanese car!
Looking forward!
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at this juncture more and more of us are owning multiple guitars and buying them from different places. Consider yourself lucky to be able to choose from different sources - I think you'll look back at this process as a fun thing and I will not be surprised if in the end you get a wonderful instrument from Mr Wu & Ms Lora - good luck.
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