Show Me Your Black Archtop

[Easy2grasp]

My 1992 Herb Ellis ES-165 that I reluctantly sold. The four times I have sold an ES-175/ES-165, I have regretted it and missed the guitar. So now I won't sell any more, but they keep accumulating and I have six now.

[billv]

1984 Fender D'Aquisto

[zizala]

I know nothing about the Fender D'Aquisto....

....but that one sure looks great in black!

[don_oz]

[Greentone]

I owned this '68 175 for 30 years then sold it to a dealer friend. He sold it to the people who are selling it now. Great guitar.

[RomanS]

Just got this:

[Greentone]

I like that Godin.

[zizala]

So many nice black archtops here.....good to see the topic come back around!

I've since acquired a couple more:


1936 Gibson Black Special #4


1933 Epiphone Blackstone
(well its black with a sunburst anyway)

[Gitfiddler]

No, I do not own this custom Heritage H-575, but it sure is a sweetie.

[icr]

1974 Les Paul Custom. My only black guitar.

[FourOnSix]

There's always this.

[NielsEpi]

Here’s a pic of my anniversary L5. Purchased when I turned 60 (3 years ago) Dreamed of owning an L5 since I was 16 (after hearing Wes on FM radio— i was probably searching for Duane Allman). The i in Gibson is dotted with a diamond! I wasn’t looking for bling or a black L5- but this is one sweet sounding guitar.


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[NielsEpi]

Here’s the bling




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[Marty Grass]

1974 Les Paul Custom. My only black guitar.

It's an archtop technically.

[Marty Grass]

It sounds and plays as good as it looks.

[wintermoon]

Here’s a pic of my anniversary L5. Purchased when I turned 60 (3 years ago) Dreamed of owning an L5 since I was 16 (after hearing Wes on FM radio— i was probably searching for Duane Allman). The i in Gibson is dotted with a diamond! I wasn’t looking for bling or a black L5- but this is one sweet sounding guitar.


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I'm usually not a fan of black guitars, but black w/gold hardware on an L-5 just pops!

[vinnyv1k]

[citizenk74]

A beautiful black WesMo and a Music Man 112 RD? Color me green!

[Jabberwocky]

I bought this 1966 Epiphone Howard Roberts from Bernunzio a few years ago. This was a photo posted on Bernunzio's sales page; I can't take a better photo than this. I posted it on an AGF thread and am re-posting it here.

[Greentone]

That HR is purdy

[vinnyv1k]

A beautiful black WesMo and a Music Man 112 RD? Color me green!

Music Man 212 65W all original bought new in 1976. Never in the shop and still sounds like new. Hybrid with SS preamp. I only changed the power and phase inverter tubes. Great amp from Leo Fender.

[citizenk74]

Music Man 212 65W all original bought new in 1976. Never in the shop and still sounds like new. Hybrid with SS preamp. I only changed the power and phase inverter tubes. Great amp from Leo Fender.

I had a 112, hence the misidentification. Best reverb ever! I ended up replacing the stock speaker with a JBL recone, and building acab for a 15" JBL from a Dual Showman amp as an extension speaker/raiser-upper. With the open back combo atop the infinite baffle box (a one inch forward port for cooling), hands down the warmest, cleanest, most room-filling rig I ever had. My ES-345 TDSV never sounded better. And letting it go was one of the dumber things I've done in a life with a long list of examples to draw on.

[FredH]

Just got this a month ago. Really cool guitar. Hope the pic comes through. Nice light weight guitar, the usual Godin high quality.

[Tom Karol]

An original Epiphone Howard Roberts is the only black guitar I've ever coveted.

[wintermoon]

this one popped up and is priced pretty reasonably and w/ make an offer feature

1997 Gibson Super 400 CES Black | Guitar House of Tulsa | Reverb