Gagnon 17″ Carved 2002 DeVant Archtop Guitar floating pickup as new condition

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This GAGNON DeVant  sn 1302 guitar features all European 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 honey blonde nitrocellulose  lacquer. 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: Spruce
• Back and Side Material: Maple
• Neck/Fingerboard Material: Maple neck w/ Ebony board
• Fingerboard Radius: 14″
• Brace Pattern: X
• Tuners: Original
• Bridge: floating
• Electronics: Kent Armstrong PAF 0
• Scale Length: 25″
• Nut Width: 1.7
• String Spacing at Saddle: 2.18″
• Serial Number: 01302
• Case: HC

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