Kalamazoo Award ($17,000) - Pickup Rockford Mi

[Johnny Mac]

[Jimmy blue note]

Thank you for posting the photos of this gorgeous guitar. Good luck with the sale. I'll let you know if I'm ever in the neighborhood looking for a guitar. It's a spectacular piece of workmanship. I've been tempted before...

[Marty Grass]

What a beauty!

[rtt]

Wow! That is just gorgeous! Good luck with the sale. I hope it finds the right home!

[Johnny Mac]

1991 Ser#92761490.In July of 1994 my wife and I went to Nashville to pickup 3 guitars at the Custom shop. During our visit they gave us a tour and we were introduced to some of the employees. About a month later I received a phone from a gentleman named John Paul whom we met in our tour. He told me they were going through some bins of leftover guitars from Kalamazoo and were still in whitewood in one of those bins was a Kalamazoo Award and he thought of me. He got my number from Hutch. He asked if I would be interested. I immediately called my dealer in New York and sealed the deal. Hutch asked me how I wanted it finished I asked for sunburst. I asked for the Johnny Smith pickup. This the finest archtop I have ever owned. It's time for my collection to go to good homes. I had 4 guitars listed on Just Jazz and 3 of them are gone. A guitar of this caliber should not be shipped. I'm in Rockford michigan.

[Woody Sound]

I had 4 guitars listed on Just Jazz and 3 of them are gone.

What is "Just Jazz?"

[starjasmine]

She shore is purty! GWTS :-)

[Johnny Mac]

Jazzguitaronlineforum. I had 4 guitars on this site.

[Stringswinger]

I wouldn't ship a guitar that rare either. A round trip plane ticket can be had for not very much money compared to overnight, insured shipping.

GLWTS!

[Woody Sound]

A round trip plane ticket can be had for not very much money compared to overnight, insured shipping.

Can one actually do that?

[Stringswinger]

Can one actually do that?

So long as you accompany the guitar, sure.

[wintermoon]

Can one actually do that?

Commonplace in the classical world where very high $ instruments are concerned.
They're certainly not putting a Strad through baggage.

[Dennis D]

Commonplace in the classical world where very high $ instruments are concerned.
They're certainly not putting a Strad through baggage.

That's one thing I've always wondered about Monteleone instruments - - does he even ship them or ??

[Woody Sound]

So long as you accompany the guitar, sure.

I figured that. So actually it would be the cost of *two* tickets. One 1w and one rt.

[FourOnSix]

That's one thing I've always wondered about Monteleone instruments - - does he even ship them or ??

All the high end luthiers do. They takes their chances.

I once bought a classical guitar from a well regarded builder in the Netherlands - not a stratospherically high priced one, but respectably pricey - and he shipped it across the Atlantic by taping up the case. Not even boxed.

[FourOnSix]

I figured that. So actually it would be the cost of *two* tickets. One 1w and one rt.

Or three, including one rt for the guitar if you can't bring it on board and want to keep it out of the hands of the baggage handlers.

[Marty Grass]

I wouldn't ship a guitar that rare either. A round trip plane ticket can be had for not very much money compared to overnight, insured shipping.

GLWTS!

Ren Wall was the artist rep for Gibson for some years. He told me that he would take the guitar personally to that artist and travel by getting two seats on an airline. Gibson paid for that.

Ren has lots of stories. He showed me a "Xerox" copy of Ted Nugent's left hand. It was mailed to Ren to help determine the neck carve. Is that crazy? Mostly, but it's probably true.

[Jimmy blue note]

I wouldn't ship a guitar that rare either. A round trip plane ticket can be had for not very much money compared to overnight, insured shipping.

GLWTS!

Had a friend, a well respected cello player. Bought a ticket for her cello next to her seat. The flight was overbooked. They took away the cello seat and it went to an overbooked customer. They were going to put her cello in baggage and she gave up both seats to attempt another flight. Her's is not the only story like this I've heard

[floatingpickup]

Getting the thread back on track…that is one of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen. I know it’s expensive but it is a really special guitar in mint condition.
Keith

[Jimmy blue note]

I'll be honest. I was considering purchasing it as the steward of an extraordinary Gibson, to lend out to promising young players that could do justice to its legacy and create a new one. I was trying to find a friend who could act as laison and transport it from Michigan to CT.
Logistics are not an easy thing in a big country.
It'd be a shame not to have the hands of a player to play this guitar into what it could become.

On the off chance, is anybody in Michigan going to the Alternative Guitar Camp in Woodstock NY this summer?

[flingrain]

is this guitar still for sale?
DM'd.

[tomvwash]

is this guitar still for sale?
DM'd.

I love how this beautiful guitar continues to reappear. Please let us know what you hear from Johny Mac. And there is this, 8 years down the pike:

Just a moment...

[AllanAllen]

I love how this beautiful guitar continues to reappear. Please let us know what you hear from Johny Mac. And there is this, 8 years down the pike:

Just a moment...

What happened to the sunburst?

[flingrain]

that one's local for me.

i reached out to them as well