Benedetto 16″ 7 String Blonde Archtop
Manufacturer | Benedetto |
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Guitar Type | 7 String, Archtop Electric, Archtop Hollow Body |
Lower Bout Width | 16″ |
Body Depth | 3.00″ |
Nut Width | 2.125″ |
Fingerboard Scale | 25.00″ |
Pickup Type | Floating |
Wood Composition | Carved Solid |
Tonewoods | Maple, Spruce |
Fretboard | Ebony |
Bridge | Floating |
Finish | Blonde |
Benedetto ARCHTOPS are among the finest archtop guitars ever built. The Archtop is an “X” braced traditional instrument, descendent from the D’Aquisto school of instruments- very light and acoustic. It features a hand carved and graduated top and back, slightly thicker than many typical archtop guitars, with a very resonant and acoustic tone.
Product Description
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The Benedetto Archtop – 7 String Models. 16″ lower bout
This is one of the best 7 strings to ever come into our shop, and it is a rare 16″ model hands built by Bob Benedetto in the early 80’s. with traditional style F-holes to allow excellent clarity and chordal note separation. TScale length is 25 inches, nut width is 1 3/4″ for the 6 string, and 2 1/8″ for the 7 string,with an ebony fretboard, withdotinlays. The body depth is 3″ at the rims, and comes standard with a floating pickup. High gloss,multi layered Nitro cellulose finish in various colors, or a custom color of your choice. . Hardware is the best available quality of your choice, and tailpiece, pickguard, bridge and fingerboard are ebony are ebony. A single Venetian cutaway is standard on the floating pickup model.
Specifications
Body: | 17″ Lower Bout |
Body Depth: | 3″ |
Nut Width: | 2 1/8″ |
Finger Board Scale: | 25″ |
Top: | AAA Spruce – hand carved & tap tuned |
Back: | Hand carved Figured Maple |
Neck: | Figured Maple |
Rims: | Figured Maple |
Finger Board: | Bound Ebony – Book Pearl Inlays $300 Optional |
Truss Rod: | Adjustable |
Binding: | White & Black Multiple PlyWood binding optional |
Pick Guard: | Ebony – w/ binding $150 Optional |
Bridge & Base: | Ebony w/Thumb Wheel Adjustment |
Tailpiece: | Ebony carved |
Tuning Machines: | Grover Imperial |
Pickup: | Kent Armstrong floating w/ volume and tone thumb wheels |
Color: | Blonde, Sunburst, Violinburst, Natural |
Case: | 5-ply custom Cedar Creek |
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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