EAST German Archtop... worth a look!

[jazzkritter]

Interesting guitar and the poster does a good job on its history.
Striking design....
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[neatomic]

lovely guitar..and good write up




always loved the german carve...roger rossmeisl is an unheralded guitar design great..brought that style stateside...worked for rickenbacker and fender...influenced semie moseley/mosrite

good stuff

cheers

[neatomic]

german carve even works for a tele





cheers

[Hammertone]

Production Rickenbackers used a degraded semi-German carve as opposed to a full German carve. No need for the real thing, since they didn't make any production acoustic archtops. Semie Moseley picked up a lot of design cues for his own instruments from his time working at Rickenbacker. I think the look works better on a tele when it's done well as a full German carve, as opposed to a semi-German carve, or even a Semie-German carve, heh.

[Cunamara]

Abe Rivera's solidbodies also seem influenced by the German recurve. Also, I saw a mention on the Internet that Abe recently died from COVID-19.

[Hammertone]

A bit of the real thing: