Triggs New Yorker at GC $4,999.99

[daveyisgreat]

Here's an interesting one at the ol' Guitar Center, a "Jimmy Triggs New Yorker" in cherry sunburst, looks like a flamed maple top? Anyway, for anyone who may find this interesting.

Have a happy new year's everyone!

Used Jimmy Triggs New Yorker Cherry Sunburst Acoustic Guitar Cherry Sunburst | Guitar Center

[73Fender]

I’m a fan of GC’s return policy. 45 days (last I looked for guitars less than 25 years old) to try it out.

[Alder Statesman]

Hey, it comes with a case!

That is all the description offered.

[2bornot2bop]

Great looking archtop, priced to move, rather than simply to display.

[wintermoon]

Triggs guitars are kind of a hard sell and I suspect one w a maple top more so.

[Archtop Guy]

I disagree with Triggs' being a hard sell. I've owned and sold San Salvadores, New Yorkers and a D'Angelico Replica New Yorker. They have been fine instruments and as easy to sell as any other top of the line archtop. I still have a 17" New Yorker. Now, the maple top is another completely different animal. That could be a much harder sell.

[Jimmy blue note]

I disagree with Triggs' being a hard sell. I've owned and sold San Salvadores, New Yorkers and a D'Angelico Replica New Yorker. They have been fine instruments and as easy to sell as any other top of the line archtop. I still have a 17" New Yorker. Now, the maple top is another completely different animal. That could be a much harder sell.

Would I be safe in assuming that it follows the tradition of maple laminate? I do see maple tops, albeit associated with humbuckers built in (excepting the Herb Ellis variation) but solid maple acoustics... not so much. Plywood on this beautiful baby?

[Jimmy blue note]

Hey, it comes with a case!

That is all the description offered.

Well. In that case...

[vinnyv1k]

With a maple top that guitar should have had a set in humbucker.

[Jimmy blue note]

With a maple top that guitar should have had a set in humbucker.

I'd agree, especially if it's a maple laminate or even if it's thicknessed and graduated as if it were a spruce top (When you change material, say, from spruce to maple, you need to figure out an entirely new set of archings, thickness and bracings because the inherent character of the woods is SO different-spruce not even having the same long/cross grain stiffness.) If Triggs did carve a solid piece of maple, arch, tune and graduate it for a maple top (thin carving with bracing) this would be indeed interesting and he could truly pull off a worthy acoustic instrument. But given the price point and how much this would deviate from standard top carving practices, I'd be very surprised if this were the case. Still, I'd really like to know what the truth is here, given the paucity of actual information.
Laminated maple acoustic with a floater? Pretty but I'd definitely need to play it to be convinced that it's more than a pretty face.

[Crm114]

I have a lovely 17 inch Triggs New Yorker, a blonde with beautifully quilted Maple. I love that sucker. I also have a Triggs telec New Yorker solid body. he made it for one of his best friends. It’s got a Screamin quilt, a top on it, and all the New Yorker reappointments.

Of all the D’Angelico replicas I owned I hung onto my Triggs

BigMike

[HeyNow]

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