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Post by Matt Milton on Jun 19, 2024 10:05:17 GMT
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Post by Matt Milton on Jun 19, 2024 10:10:01 GMT
Bargain at £140.
Picked it up this morning on my way into work, and now have to get through a day in the office with it sitting in the corner wanting to be played... No brand (hence cheap price) but a nice thick neck which is a big plus for me and it was set up by a luthier so intonation and action is all there. I prefer a wider string spacing but a thicker neck seems to make string spacing feel wider somehow. Gave it a quick strum in the courtyard outside the office. Sounds pretty good playing my limited repertoire of Freddie Green-style chording. I'll post some sound files later. Think I'll put higher guage strings on it and maybe raise the action a little, see if that ups the volume a little (it's a bit on the quiet side unless you really thump it). No idea when it was made. 1950s or 60s would be my guess.
Had had GAS for an acoustic archtop for a while and this seemed like the cheapest way of giving in to it!
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Post by minorkey on Jun 19, 2024 10:23:29 GMT
Can't view those files
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Post by Matt Milton on Jun 19, 2024 10:41:53 GMT
ah right, was just drag'n'dropping them which didn't seem to work. Have embedded pics now.
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Post by delb0y on Jun 19, 2024 11:15:49 GMT
Excellent! Look forward to hearing that one :-)
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Post by ocarolan on Jun 19, 2024 13:36:51 GMT
Looks similar to Framus archtops in the f-holes, though the tailpiece and bridge are likely not original. Could be a bargain! Congrats!
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Post by minorkey on Jun 19, 2024 14:28:03 GMT
ah right, was just drag'n'dropping them which didn't seem to work. Have embedded pics now. Oh that is a nice looking guitar! |
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Post by lavaman on Jun 19, 2024 16:06:09 GMT
A bargain. Well done.  |
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Post by earthbalm on Jun 19, 2024 17:20:45 GMT
The links displayed some rather dodgy video images for me when I clicked the pictures! I doubt I'll be clicking on pictures on the forum going forward.
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Post by PistolPete on Jun 20, 2024 0:48:01 GMT
Congratulations on the find. How does it play? Apart from the tailpiece it looks very close to one I used to own which was branded "Antoria". I loved the sound of it, but I could never get the action close to what I wanted and ended up replacing it with my Gibson. I never got exactly to the bottom of who made it, but Antoria were a British company who used to import & rebrand cheaper guitars from Germany & Japan - usually, but not exclusively, Framus and Ibanez.  |
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Post by Onechordtrick on Jun 20, 2024 4:18:20 GMT
The links displayed some rather dodgy video images for me when I clicked the pictures! I doubt I'll be clicking on pictures on the forum going forward. The site for the image hosting does have an “interesting” choice of advertising although the second time I tried, purely in the interest of research, I got an ad for stairlifts. |
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Post by Matt Milton on Jun 20, 2024 14:53:43 GMT
Congratulations on the find. How does it play? Apart from the tailpiece it looks very close to one I used to own which was branded "Antoria". I loved the sound of it, but I could never get the action close to what I wanted and ended up replacing it with my Gibson. I never got exactly to the bottom of who made it, but Antoria were a British company who used to import & rebrand cheaper guitars from Germany & Japan - usually, but not exclusively, Framus and Ibanez. Right - that does look pretty similar. I did think the headstock shape doesn't seem entirely in-keeping with an archtop.
It plays OK - it had had a setup with a luthier. Action's probably a little higher than most players would like, but I don't mind a higher action - and it's not "jazz muso high". I am getting a lot more squeaks than I'm used to though - then again I've just changed the strings.
It sounds... like an archtop should sound, I think. I don't have a huge amount of archtop experience.
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