The justjazzguitars collection of vintage and rare jazz archtops.
The justjazzguitars collection of
vintage and rare jazz archtops.






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Byrdland, D'Angelico, Guild, Hofner, Benedetto, Guitars for Sale,
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In
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Giving new life
to some old,
interesting, rare or special archtops makes for a great retirement hobby
......... but it is just a hobby so some of these lovely old
guitars may take me a year or more to finish!
To follow
progress, just click on the pics.
Alan Cramp. |
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Currently in my Workshop: |
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New Archtop. My
final Custom Hofner.
I have had it in mind to
build this guitar for about 10 years.
So there has been plenty of time to think it through,
get the design right, and source the parts.
It will be my final
Hofner Custom - the guitar that Hofner never
built - a smaller sister to The Jazz Café.
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New pickguard for D'Angelico. |
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#109 Neubauer.
For assessment!
Decision time -
shall I do everything (a full restoration) or just what
it takes to allow it to play nicely?
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#111 Rodebald Hoyer
Jazzstar.
Rodebald's guitars are
renown for their enormous acoustic voice. I
bought this one as a project. I wanted to get inside
it and understand its construction to find out how these amazing guitars had been made.
But
it turns out to be in very good overall condition and
requires much less work than I had expected.
Most of the hand carved
Spruce-top Jazzstars are Blonde so this gentle sunburst
example is of special merit.
Built in 1961 it
deserves a full
refurbishment to allow it to give of its best.
For progress updates,
just click on the pic.
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