Palen 7 String Blonde fully Carved Archtop Guitar w Case

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The Palen Archtop – 7 String Models. 17″ lower bout- mint condition with Ameritage OHSC

PALEN ARCHTOPS are among the finest archtop guitars ever built. The Palen 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. Englemann spruce, hand carved and tap tuned. EIGHT piece Neck and constructed from matching maple with laminated ebony between the  pieces of maple. The front of the Headstock is covered with polished ebony and features an inlaid “Palen” with his Unique shaped 7 string Headstock.  The back or the headstocks are multi-laminated with an array or gorgeous exotic woods, which ad great strength and beauty.

All Palens are built with traditional style F-holes to allow excellent clarity and chordal note separation. Scale length is 25 inches, nut width is  2 1/8″ for the 7 string. All Palens come standard with an ebony fretboard with inlays,   standard body depth is 3″ at the rims, and comes standard with a KA hand wound floating pickup. High gloss,multi layered Nitro cellulose finish.  Woods and Hardware are the best available quality

and tailpiece, pickguard, bridge and fingerboard are ebony are ebony. A single Venetian cutaway is standard on the floating pickup model.

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