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The Aldridge is my 16" pre-war style guitar. This is a new guitar and is fully warrantied. Asking $6K plus shipping. If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.
- 1 11/16" nut width
- 24.75" scale length
- 3.25" side depth
- 16" lower bout
- parallel braced
- full C-shape neck profile
- Sitka spruce top
- domestic flamed maple back/sides
- ebony fingerboard
- ebony bridge/saddle
- ebony headstock veneer
- nitrocellulose lacquer
- Waverly tuning machines
- stainless frets
- TKL hardshell case
- dual action truss rod
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11-09-2024 05:06 PM
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I’ve played this guitar and can vouch for it. Beautiful workmanship, it plays great and sounds absolutely wonderful. It’s worth every penny of the asking price.
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Gorgeous!! GLWTS!
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Combs are one of the lesser known luthiers, but they make beautiful guitars:
Combs Instruments
Here's another one of his guitars:
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Beautiful!
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Originally Posted by Doug B
That color is AMAZING!!
[and they make great pedals, too!]
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Originally Posted by marcwhy
Doug
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What an absolutely beautiful sounding and looking guitar.
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I have never heard of them, but they look absolutely beautiful and capture the early l5 guitar is ways that other builders have not. I am going to rely on TRM who knows a good guitar and says is sound great. I would really like to try one of his guitars.
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
Doug
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Originally Posted by Doug B
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
Yep, it’s a beautiful guitar.
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Originally Posted by Doug B
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Originally Posted by marcwhy
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Originally Posted by ThatRhythmMan
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These guitars at 6k are a fucking steal.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
Shhh!!! :-)
Doug
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Wow! Beautiful guitar and sound! What is the lead time currently for a 1 3/4" nut Aldridge?
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Wasn't the nut at the time closer to 1.8" than 1.75" even, or was that in flattops?
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Early L-5's had fairly wide nut widths. The problem I've run into with the wide nut + short scale is that it creates a pretty wide string spacing which can be great for finger style playing it can also be wide enough that it puts the strings outside of the coil of DeArmond pickups (modern pickups too). So you can end up with the low E string being much quieter than the other strings. I'd be happy to make one with those specs for someone, of course. I'll also add that my pre-war style guitars are not copies of any one guitar. Even though this guitar looks a great deal like an old L-5 it is my own body shape and my own headstock and the arching and graduations are not from an L-5. My goal is to build guitars that look and sound like they could be contemporaneous with guitars of that age but are modern in feel and playability.
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