Brad Nickerson 2002 Corona Highly Flamed Acoustic Archtop Guitar w floating Benedetto pickup and OHSC

Product Description

The Corona is the top of the line of Nickerson guitars with a current base price of $9500. This is a traditionally styled 17” Archtop with hand carved X-braced Spruce top and in immaculate condition with no signs of wear. Highly figured Maple back and sides and neck. The spruce top has so much silking it appears to be flamed also. This particular guitar was made for a very discerning collector with the most demanding perfection demonstrated in the beauty of these specially chosen woods with a sound just as wonderful. Bound peghead, fingerboard and finger rest, multiple black/white binding and purfling on the body. Macassar ebony peghead laminated with burl, finger rest and hand carved tailpiece.
Body Depth: 3 – 3 1/8” Inlay: Upgraded Floral Design Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer Tuners: Germany made Schaller with ebony buttons.

“I absolutely LOVE my Nickerson Guitar! It is a truly gorgeous instrument… so amazingly balanced & with such an incredibly full range. I don’t know how you do it Brad, but my Nick runs the gamut from the sweetest high tones, to warmest/fullest midrange & most resonant bottom end. It is responsive and sings like no other guitar I’ve ever played. Every other pro guitarist who’s played it loves it as well… Thank You Brad for your Magic… I am most honored to have a Nickerson Guitar in my world!”

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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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