Treneir Special Custom Carved 16″ Model E Archtop in near mint condition This must be seriously considered if you are seeking a great archtop guitar.
Peerless CONTESSA 16″ Carved Archtop Jazz Guitar w case #3018389
Carved Solid Spruce top & carved solid Maple back, with solid maple sides, 3” at the rims, 16” lower bout. ebony pickguard, fretboard and tailpiece. Floating mini humbucker with 90% the output of an epiphone 57 full size hum bucker. 25 1/2 scale, 1.69” at nut. Great playability and acoustic tone.
Peerless CONTESSA 16″ Carved Archtop Jazz Guitar w case #3018285
Carved Solid Spruce top & carved solid Maple back, with solid maple sides, 3” at the rims, 16” lower bout. ebony pickguard, fretboard and tailpiece. Floating mini humbucker with 90% the output of an epiphone 57 full size hum bucker. 25 1/2 scale, 1.69” at nut. Great playability and acoustic tone.
Peerless CONTESSA 16″ Carved Archtop Jazz Guitar w case #3018286
Carved Solid Spruce top & carved solid Maple back, with solid maple sides, 3” at the rims, 16” lower bout. ebony pickguard, fretboard and tailpiece. Floating mini humbucker with 90% the output of an epiphone 57 full size hum bucker. 25 1/2 scale, 1.69” at nut. Great playability and acoustic tone.
Peerless Cremona 16VC 3017954
The Cremona was built a little smaller 16″ at the lower bout and a little thinner 2 1/2″ at the rims, and given a smaller headstock for perfect balance, making it more comfortable and lighter and more feedback resistant for the professional musician. With a carved solid top it imparts “Bell like tones” with great chordal note separation and feedback resistance not found in the larger model.
Peerless Cremona 16VC 3017955
The Cremona was built a little smaller 16″ at the lower bout and a little thinner 2 1/2″ at the rims, and given a smaller headstock for perfect balance, making it more comfortable and lighter and more feedback resistant for the professional musician. With a carved solid top it imparts “Bell like tones” with great chordal note separation and feedback resistance not found in the larger model.
Peerless Ruby Cremona 16V Archtop Guitar # 7973
The Cremona was built a little smaller 16″ at the lower bout and a little thinner 2 1/2″ at the rims, and given a smaller headstock for perfect balance, making it more comfortable and lighter and more feedback resistant for the professional musician. With a carved solid top it imparts “Bell like tones” with great chordal note separation and feedback resistance not found in the larger model.
Peerless CONTESSA 16″ Carved Archtop Jazz Guitar #3008764 w case
Carved Solid Spruce top & carved solid Maple back, with solid maple sides, 3” at the rims, 16” lower bout. ebony pickguard, fretboard and tailpiece. Floating mini humbucker with 90% the output of an epiphone 57 full size hum bucker. 25 1/2 scale, 1.69” at nut. Great playability and acoustic tone.
Peerless CONTESSA 16″ Archtop Jazz Guitar w upgrades #3008540 w case
Carved Solid Spruce top & carved solid Maple back, with solid maple sides, 3” at the rims, 16” lower bout. ebony pickguard, fretboard and tailpiece. Floating mini humbucker with 90% the output of an epiphone 57 full size hum bucker. 25 1/2 scale, 1.69” at nut. Great playability and acoustic tone.
Moonstone KOA #4811
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.
Moonstone Mahogany
If Steve Helgeson (Moonstone Owner) is still building his guitars with as much attention to detail as he used to, then I imagine that the M80 will be an excellent guitar.
the sound – not for vi8ntage blues tones – but sophisticated Alembic type fusion and jazz sounds. I liken it to a Stanley Clarke sound in a guitar.
the bridge pickup has an insane amount of gain.
Peerless Cremona 16V 9078
The Cremona was built a little smaller 16″ at the lower bout and a little thinner 2 1/2″ at the rims, and given a smaller headstock for perfect balance, making it more comfortable and lighter and more feedback resistant for the professional musician. With a carved solid top it imparts “Bell like tones” with great chordal note separation and feedback resistance not found in the larger model.
Peerless Cremona 16V 6346
The Cremona was built a little smaller 16″ at the lower bout and a little thinner 2 1/2″ at the rims, and given a smaller headstock for perfect balance, making it more comfortable and lighter and more feedback resistant for the professional musician. With a carved solid top it imparts “Bell like tones” with great chordal note separation and feedback resistance not found in the larger model.
Peerless Cremona 16V 9084
The Cremona was built a little smaller 16″ at the lower bout and a little thinner 2 1/2″ at the rims, and given a smaller headstock for perfect balance, making it more comfortable and lighter and more feedback resistant for the professional musician. With a carved solid top it imparts “Bell like tones” with great chordal note separation and feedback resistance not found in the larger model.