Product Description
This is a rare opportunity to own a Palen Archtop – 6 String Archtop. Highly flamed maple, and also what appears to be flamed spuce is just an amazing amount of silking in the spruce making it looked highly flamed also. Playability and tone is absolutely amazing. Gigged, but in great shape. This is one of the earlier models, serial number 39 made in 2005 . (george Benson owns #10, and Rodney Jones, Paul Brown, Jc Stiles and many other famous musicians play Palen Performer)s. Nelson Palen has built 100 archtop and has had to quit building because of health reasons. You can read an article on our website of this builder. His archtops are amazing!
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.
In most cases the back and sides are of bigleaf maple. Woods used are always the best available with great resonance and flame. Tops are either Sitka spruce or Englemann spruce, hand carved and tap tuned. Necks are five piece and constructed from matching maple with laminated ebony between the 3 pieces of maple. The front of the Headstock is covered with ebony and features an inlaid “P”. You may also select your choice of wood for the front of the headstock. The back or the headstocks are multi-laminated with an array or gorgeous exotic woods, which ad great strength and beauty.
Scale length is 25 inches, nut width is 1.78″ and 2.13″ at the twelfth fret for this Palen Neck depth at the 3rd fret is 0.856″ and 0.90″ at the 9th fret. This Palens has an ebony fretboard, with inlays. The body depth is 3″ at the rims, and comes standard with a Hand wound Kent Armstrong Routed in PAF O Humbucker. Hardware is the best available quality of your choice, and tailpiece, pickguard, bridge and fingerboard are ebony. A single Venetian cutaway and a routed set Hand wound Kent Armstrong pickup.
“After purchasing Palen #59 and bringing it home, some wonderful things started to happen. My wife tells me that I sound better than ever. The vocalists that I backup aren’t so happy because they tell me that the Palen sounds so smooth, that their singing pales in comparison to the tone of the Palen. Frank L Michigan”
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