Gagnon 17″ Carved 2007 DeVant Imperial Archtop Guitar floating KA pickup

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This GAGNON DeVant Imperial  sn 07907 guitar features all Big Leaf maple and spruce body wood. The neck is three piece North American hardwood.  17” body, 3 1/8th rim depth.  25” scale.  Nut width, 1.7”  Ebony bridge, tailpiece and fretboard.  Gold Schaller tuners with ebony buttons.   A floating Kent Armstrong handmade pickup with adjustable poles is attached to the pickguard. The elongated bound pickguard features a volume pot and tone control. The guitar is finished in a light burst  nitrocellulose  lacquer with flamed maple binding over the entire archtop headstock. neck and body. If you look closely at the spruce top, it  is gorgeous, and  almost appears to be flamed, which is called silking, and only found in aged spruce.   Bill always used the best quality woods he could fine. One of the most artistic builders,  Bill Gagnon produced hand built guitars one at a time, with impressive attention to detail.  Bill’s instruments reflect a performance career going back decades. Artistically designed, handsome and easy to play, At just 5lb. 12 oz, the DeVant is remarkably lightweight,  medium  “D” profile neck , with a  1.7″ width solid ebony fingerboard with inlays. The tap-tuned soundboard is meticulously hand graduated, with a rich, responsive acoustic voice, with a  handwound Armstrong PAF.

• Top Material: hand carved and tuned Spruce
• Back and Side Material: Big Leaf Maple
• Neck/Fingerboard Material: Maple neck w/ Ebony board and flamed maple binding
• Fingerboard Radius: 14″
• Brace Pattern: X
• Tuners: Original Shaller tunes with ebony buttons
• Bridge: floating
• Electronics: Kent Armstrong PAF 0
• Scale Length: 25″
• Nut Width: 1.7
• String Spacing at Saddle: 2.18″
• Serial Number: 07907
• Case: HC

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