Show us your vintage archtops and acoustics

prlgmnr

Strangefan said:
My first gibson was a 225!brillaint guitars as long as you change the all in one bridge! 

This has the wraparound/trapeze, but you can see where it's had another one fitted at some point

markblack

1953 ES-125

WezV

my only one at the moment is a mid 50's framusish thing


Its had a new fretboard, and neck reset - the original board was braz rw but too thin to save and had horrible inlays.  Its also got a new bridge and pickup.   I  made pearloid guard to match the headplate but have never got around to fitting it

The closest i can find is a framus 5/57 Tango
http://www.framus-vintage.de/modules/modells/instruments.php?katID=4628&instrumentID=2788&modellID=386&cl=EN




I  also have a old hofner thinlinebody and some gretsch plates for future projects

Strangefan

@WezV ; love those soundholes! 

57Deluxe

My mid 80s Hofner 457 - think Billy Duffy White Falcon tones and you in same ballpark!

http://i64.tinypic.com/2b712c.jpg

Epsilon

1959 Guild X50. The P90(esque) pickup sounds glorious though a Memory Man with a hint of drive.

Strangefan

@Epsilon ; Guild are my all time favourite make, that's a belter

Schnozz

Great Thread...Great!

Epsilon

Strangefan said:

@Epsilon ;;; Guild are my all time favourite make, that's a belter

In that case here's another treat for you! 1973 F-412.

Strangefan

@Epsilon in my opinion the greatest 12 string of all time,  I recently traded my 60s f 20 and I need another guild in my life! 

ESchap

Current crop of old Archtops

1955 Hofner Committee

1961 Gibson Barney Kessel

1961 Gibson ES-125DC

1963 Customer order Gibson ES-175CC (carved spruce top, ebony board etc.)

camf

@ESchap ;;; Woof! I'm salivating. Especially that 125DC

Strangefan

Holy shit @ESchap ;

Schnozz

ESchap said:

Current crop of old Archtops

1955 Hofner Committee

1961 Gibson Barney Kessel

1961 Gibson ES-125DC

1963 Customer order Gibson ES-175CC (carved spruce top, ebony board etc.)

EDIT: Nice Guitars.

guitars4you

camf said:

@ESchap ;;; Woof! I'm salivating. Especially that 125DC

a very classy selection indeed - agree with you on the 125DC

Danji

Woah, there’s some lovely purvy stuff on this thread.  @ESchap I’m looking at that 175 CC the way a man shouldn’t look at another’s guitar.

My Metheny guitar is now 21, so that will be classed as vintage soon enough. 

mikem8634

@ESchap That 1955 Hofner Committee brings back some memories. The singer in my first band had one as beautiful as that, though possibly a little later as it had Hofner on the headstock. It used to generate some lovely warm rhythm sounds through its floating pickup and it was wonderful acoustically as well. But the times when we let it loose through his cranked Pro Reverb were positively unhinged, with a ragged, chaotic, garage blues howl and a wall of feedback that even Neil Young couldn't climb. Loved it.

richardhomer

Epsilon said:

In that case here's another treat for you! 1973 F-412.

That’s a lovely guitar - I’m a big fan of Guild 12 strings.