Trenier Classic

**Donplaysguitar** · 05-23-2021, 11:33 PM

Happy NGD!

I agree that it has that D'Aquisto look to it. Very much a custom luthier's guitar. I'm sure that it feels very special every time you pick it up and play it.

**coolvinny** · 05-24-2021, 12:31 AM

Stunner! I have a 16" carved 2016 Trenier and have played a fine 17" carved 2013 Trenier...I'm sure this Jazz Classic sounds spectacular.

**Perdido** · 05-24-2021, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by AKA

Thanks Joe. I will say Tom Ribbecke is a great and gracious human being and I’m fortunate his shop is in easy commuting distance. He once had an instrument hand delivered to me as I was recuperating from a significant medical procedure. I called it my healing guitar.

Fortunately, in this case yesterday, at a friend’s urging I took a pass at buffing out the scuff myself using Virtuoso guitar polish and it worked perfectly! It would take a magnifying glass to find any trace.

Albert

Hey Albert, truly gorgeous guitar! But did Ribbecke move out of Healdsburg? I never considered Healdsburg commuting distance from Sacto, but I guess, as they say, your mileage may vary. Had I known you were swinging through Sonoma County, I would have told you to stop by for some pinot on the porch. Next time, maybe. Meanwhile, enjoy that beauty!

**AKA** · 05-24-2021, 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by Perdido

Hey Albert, truly gorgeous guitar! But did Ribbecke move out of Healdsburg? I never considered Healdsburg commuting distance from Sacto, but I guess, as they say, your mileage may vary. Had I known you were swinging through Sonoma County, I would have told you to stop by for some pinot on the porch. Next time, maybe. Meanwhile, enjoy that beauty!

Perdido,

He’s still in Healdsburg. It’s about a 1- 1/2 hour plus drive for me. Sipping pinot on the porch in Sonoma sounds good to me. I’ll let you know next time l’m coming your way!

Albert

**2bornot2bop** · 05-25-2021, 03:51 PM

AKA, your guitar is simply stunning! I’m happy you worked out the scuff yourself. Enjoy your new guitar, and put it to work playing all the music you can imagine.

**2bornot2bop** · 05-25-2021, 07:30 PM

There you go - In all it's NATURAL beauty!

**QAman** · 05-25-2021, 07:36 PM

What a beauty !!

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**AKA** · 05-25-2021, 11:10 PM

Thanks 2B!

Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop

There you go - In all it's NATURAL beauty!

**Fred Archtop** · 05-26-2021, 12:35 AM

Wow, just wow. Stunning guitar in every ssense. Congrats.

**AKA** · 05-26-2021, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Fred Archtop

Wow, just wow. Stunning guitar in every ssense. Congrats.

Thanks Fred.

**feet** · 05-26-2021, 10:41 PM

I really like those flame maple accents. Sometimes it looks like gold, sometimes it looks like wood and sometimes it blends into the top. Fascinating. The color matched headstock is also a neat detail we never see with archtops. Love the funny little truss rod cover, too

**AKA** · 05-27-2021, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by feet

I really like those flame maple accents. Sometimes it looks like gold, sometimes it looks like wood and sometimes it blends into the top. Fascinating. The color matched headstock is also a neat detail we never see with archtops. Love the funny little truss rod cover, too

Feet,

One detail my quick photos don’t capture is the extent of the bear claw figuring in the spruce top. Depending on the lighting it appears to flow upward on the body from the tailpiece, almost like a fountain. I knew the top had figuring, but not to this extent. I will have some high quality photos taken and will capture this effect. Will post.

Albert

**feet** · 05-28-2021, 03:34 AM

I can see it! It's kinda visible in two of the photos. It's like a lightning strike. Like the guitar somehow sprung forth from the tailpiece like Excalibur or something. It has a cool sort of heat ray/mirage thing happening. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but either way, I've never seen such an clever integration of the natural variances in the wood into the design like that. Not with bear claw, anyway. You are a fortunate duck.

**Max405** · 05-28-2021, 09:46 AM

AKA, You cant take better photo's then you did. I cant imagine that guitar being any more beautiful than what I see in those pics.
What is like to play? How does the neck feel in your hand? Is it lightweight or heavy?
I absolutely LOVE the color/shading of this Guitar. Hands down, my favorite color. Right up there with some of the Viceroy Brown Tal's I've seen.
The Finger rest alone is a work of Art. The Finger Rest! I've never seen anything like that.
Beautiful.
Joe D

**AKA** · 05-28-2021, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Max405

AKA, You cant take better photo's then you did. I cant imagine that guitar being any more beautiful than what I see in those pics.
What is like to play? How does the neck feel in your hand? Is it lightweight or heavy?
I absolutely LOVE the color/shading of this Guitar. Hands down, my favorite color. Right up there with some of the Viceroy Brown Tal's I've seen.
The Finger rest alone is a work of Art. The Finger Rest! I've never seen anything like that.
Beautiful.
Joe D

Joe,

This is a really comfortable and easy playing guitar - very light, extremely comfortable neck. Last night, as I was playing it, I realized just how much it facilitated me relaxing my fretting hand! That led to the realization of how much opportunity this creates to “nuance” each note, and to play more effortlessly. It sounds great both acoustically and amplified. (I’d love to hear you play it.)

The guitar is light - noticeably lighter than my Legrand. On the other hand it is solidly built; not a fragile instrument.

I hope I can capture the figure in the spruce top in a photo. It is quite a sight.

I’m with you on the shading. I love it.

AKA

**QAman** · 05-28-2021, 07:53 PM

It’s the responsiveness of a great guitar which creates that relaxation and enables us to explore new ideas. Your not fighting the guitar - as many do with stiff instruments.

It’s sounds very inspiring - I’m excited for you AKA.

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**AKA** · 05-28-2021, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by feet

I can see it! It's kinda visible in two of the photos. It's like a lightning strike. Like the guitar somehow sprung forth from the tailpiece like Excalibur or something. It has a cool sort of heat ray/mirage thing happening. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but either way, I've never seen such an clever integration of the natural variances in the wood into the design like that. Not with bear claw, anyway. You are a fortunate duck.

Feet,

When I told Bryant that with the instrument in hand I was struck by the figuring in the top, he presented the imagery of the tailpiece as a fountain from which the figuring flows.

Yes, I am very fortunate as, like many of us, I’ve been searching for the “Holy Grail” for many years, and have owned and still own several outstanding instruments including Gibson (Super V, Legrand), Benedetto (Fratello), Ribbecke (Monterey), Grimes (Oval hole), Megas (Athena), Mirabella (Jazz Moderne Non-cutaway). This Trenier is special.

AKA

**Mark M.** · 05-28-2021, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by AKA

Feet,

One detail my quick photos don’t capture is the extent of the bear claw figuring in the spruce top. Depending on the lighting it appears to flow upward on the body from the tailpiece, almost like a fountain. I knew the top had figuring, but not to this extent. I will have some high quality photos taken and will capture this effect. Will post.

Albert

I can see it, but I’d love to see pics that really show it more prominently if possible. After getting my Model E I’m such a Trenier fanboy. Give me more!

**Max405** · 05-28-2021, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by AKA

Joe,
This is a really comfortable and easy playing guitar - very light, extremely comfortable neck. Last night, as I was playing it, I realized just how much it facilitated me relaxing my fretting hand! That led to the realization of how much opportunity this creates to “nuance” each note, and to play more effortlessly. It sounds great both acoustically and amplified. (I’d love to hear you play it.)
The guitar is light - noticeably lighter than my Legrand. On the other hand it is solidly built; not a fragile instrument.
I hope I can capture the figure in the spruce top in a photo. It is quite a sight.
I’m with you on the shading. I love it.

AKA

AKA, I am glad for you bud.
I get what you and QA are saying 1000%. Sometimes a guitar is very easy to play because of how it responds to your touch, which means, don’t have to touch it as much and... viola! It allows you to think ahead easier and makes you a better player.
You don’t want to hear me play it. I want to hear how much YOU love playing it.
It’s nice seeing a beautiful guitar in the hands of a classy dude.
Enjoy that guitar. It’s a masterpiece.
JD
QA, thanks for turning us onto these world class guitars. You’ve been all over this for years.

**Gustavo Eiriz** · 05-30-2021, 11:02 AM

Both Trenier and Campellone guitars are really amazing. Lately I started believing that these kind of instrument must be recorded using not only the amp`s sound, a nice condenser should place in front of the F hole to blend with that amp`s sound.
No pickup can make justice on such a beautiful acoustic sound.
I can imagine it played through a nice Polytone and in front of some Neumann U-67, or maybe a pair of Schoeps in X/Y configuration for a nice stereo take.

**Max405** · 05-31-2021, 01:02 PM

Gustavo, or just watch and listen to Pasquale Grasso play just about anything on any of his. It would probably blow me away listening to him just tuning the guitar!
JD

**AKA** · 05-31-2021, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by Gustavo Eiriz

Both Trenier and Campellone guitars are really amazing. Lately I started believing that these kind of instrument must be recorded using not only the amp`s sound, a nice condenser should place in front of the F hole to blend with that amp`s sound.
No pickup can make justice on such a beautiful acoustic sound.
I can imagine it played through a nice Polytone and in front of some Neumann U-67, or maybe a pair of Schoeps in X/Y configuration for a nice stereo take.

Gustavo - I love the acoustic/ amp mixed recorded sound. I play a lot that way at home. That is, I’ll plug in and only turn the amp up enough to compliment the acoustic sound of the instrument. Just yesterday I was discussing this with a friend who recorded a local trio - Steve Homan (guitar), Joe Gilman (piano),Tom Peron trumpet. My friend is a dedicated guitarist and in producing the recording he mixed a mic’d signal of the acoustic sound of the archtop with the line signal of the instrument. It turned out wonderfully!

AKA

**Jabberwocky** · 06-01-2021, 04:56 PM

I love your Classic, AKA. Your Classic is one I would order for myself. I don't like the Calore for sale at Austin Guitar House that much.

**AKA** · 06-02-2021, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by Jabberwocky

I love your Classic, AKA. Your Classic is one I would order for myself. I don't like the Calore for sale at Austin Guitar House that much.

Thanks Jabberwocky. What is it about the Calore that you don’t care for?

AKA

**Jabberwocky** · 06-02-2021, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by AKA

Thanks Jabberwocky. What is it about the Calore that you don’t care for?

AKA

Little details like the lack of curly maple binding in the tailpiece and pickguard that is seen in your Classic, the shape of the Calore's tailpiece, pickguard, headstock, finish. Even the soundholes look subtly different in the Calore and not in a good way-I attribute that to the camera angle in Austin GH's video..