Dale Unger American Legend Carved 6 String Natural Blonde 2022 Archtop specially priced! w OHSC
Manufacturer | American Legend, Dale Unger |
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Guitar Type | Archtop Electric, Archtop Hollow Body |
Lower Bout Width | 17″ |
Body Depth | 3.00″ |
Nut Width | 1 3/4″ |
Fingerboard Scale | 25.00″ |
Pickup Type | 1 Set Humbucker |
Wood Composition | Carved Solid |
Tonewoods | Maple, Spruce |
Fretboard | Ebony |
Bridge | Floating |
Finish | Natural |
Unger American Legend Archtop are among the finest archtop guitars ever buil patterned in the fashion of Bob Benedetto. The Archtop is an “X” braced traditional instrument, descendent from the D’Aquisto& Benedetto 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
Dale Unger Legend 2022 Blonde American 6 String Archtop w case-
Spectacular hand selected solid European highly flamed maple back and sides and hand selected solid European spruce top. Purist solid black ebony for our handmade fingerboard, bridge, tailpiece. Top and back recurved by hand to create incomparable acoustic tone and amplified sound.
- 17″ Body
- Single Cutaway with Solid Maple Sides
- Body Depth 3″
- Neck made of matching Maple
- 25″ Fingerboard Scale 21 Frets
- Width of Neck at Nut: – 6 string 1 3/4″ – 7 string 2 1/16″
- 2 Way Adjustable Truss Rod
- Fingerboard, Bridge, Tailpiece all made of Solid Ebony
- Gotoh 510 Tuning Machines
- Built in Humbucker with tone & volume controls $150
- Finishes: Nitrocellulose Lacquer Natural or Blonde
- Custom TKL Hard shell plush lined case
- Upgraded Woods
- C shaped flamed neck reminiscent of the Vintage D’Angelico’s
- 1.77″ nut, 2.08″ 12th fretboard width, Neck depth 0.84″ 1st fret, 0.87″ 3rd fret, 0.99″ 10th fret
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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