2016 Custom Florentine Cutaway Palen PERFORMER Sunburst #89 , SOLD

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Rare CUSTOM 2017 Palen JAZZ PERFORMER 17” Carved Archtop on the way!- Ultimate performing Archtop with a set Gibson Classic 57 pickup- Fat punchy tone remineniscent of the carved archtops from the early 1950’s with great sustain that makes NEW GIBSON Wes L5’s sound muddy. Body Depth 2 1/2”at rims,Nut Width 1 ¾”, 25”Scale, Engelmann AAA Spruce Top- hand carved and tap tuned, Back…Hand carved Flamed Maple,Neck…Figured Maple,Rims…Figured Maple, Ebony Finger Board w/ Book Pearl Inlays, White & Black Multiple Ply Binding or wood binding,Mother of Pearl and or Abalone Inlays, Custom bound Pick Guard with Volume & Tone wheels, Ebony carved Tailpiece and Base, Tunomatic Bridge, and Grover Imperial, Tuning Machines elision Palen has built 99 magnificent guitars, and they rarely come up for sale.  Please email for detailed pics of the new Palens just arriving. Most Palens are pre-sold before arrival or in the shop for only a few days. This archtop is one of the best values on the market and has been appreciating in value. Make an appointment to visit our new Showroom in Summit, NJ to try our Palen demos and find out how you can reserve your Palen. We are only 30 minutes from Manhattan by car; 2 blocks from the Summit train station – 35 minutes from NYC on the midtown direct!

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About Palen

Nelson Palen started building his acoustic archtop Palen Guitar in November, 1998 and finished it the last week in June, 1999. He read the book and viewed the 6-hour video by Bob Benedetto, who has been building guitars and violins for 30 years and is considered the premier archtop builder in the country. The Palen archtop is unique in that the soundboard and back are carved from wood approx. 1″ thick to a domed shape similar to that found on a violin.

Before Nelson made Palen archtops, he had been making decorative wooden bowls as shown here for approx. 12 years. His woodworking skills and attention to detail began here and from his ancestry. His dad, Benedict Palen, has been doing woodwork since the 1930’s starting out with a pedal-powered lathe. His dad’s enterprise, Artistic Woodcrafts started with a Shopsmith and then homebuilt a heavy-duty lathe capable of swinging up to 32″ diameter blanks.. The blanks for the bowls are made up of segmented rings stacked and glued. Various wood species, domestic and foreign are used. Examples are walnut, white gum, padauk, wenge, mahogany etc. Nelson Palen added a CNC desktop mill in 1998 that can be mounted on the lathe for engraving. The spindle is slowly rotated by computer command with approx. 1000:1 reduction. The basic turning operation is done with conventional hand tools.

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