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Works perfectly, sounds good...I've used it once as an extra pickup on a lap steel.
$160 shipped in the US
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11-27-2020 10:58 AM
Works perfectly, sounds good...I've used it once as an extra pickup on a lap steel.
$160 shipped in the US
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The rise of many of the great independent archtop luthiers predated the cessation of Gibson archtop production by several decades. From the 1960s onward, Gibson did not make many carved archtops, and...
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Yeah, too late to tell him to rotate the &^%$# bridge on that thing.
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There is some interesting factory tour video out there. Godin uses a lot of automated fabrication and finishing processes, and their hand-labour processes rely heavily on jigs that speed the process...
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Really? I didn’t know that. Not surprised about the pickups though. Hard to improve on Gibson pickups at least at that point in time.
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Here's a link to Laurence Wexer's exquisite collection listed on Gbase. https://www.gbase.com/powered/laurence-wexer-ltd
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