GFSA flat tops

Bob-Dubery · 2011-03-17T07:59:31+00:00

OK... another gear specific love-in. Let's see pictures of your flat top acoustics - steel string, hole more or less in the middle. No arch-tops, no nylon strings, no f-holes, no resonator guitars.... we can start other threads for those. I'll kick off. On the left my Larrivee LV-05. Honduras mahogany back and sides. Tusq nut, bone saddle. On the right my Morgan OMR. Indian rosewood. I had a new saddle and nut cut from Warthog tusk. The original graphtec pieces are in the case. Both have Sitka spruce tops, gotoh tuners and are fitted with a LR Baggs "Dual Source" pickup/mic combination. Both have mahogany necks with ebony fingerboards. Both have ebony bridges. The Morgan has ebony bridge pins (though currently they're put aside for safe keeping and I have a set of graphtech pins in there). Detail of the larry - you can see the lovely reddish-brown mahogany and the maple bindings. The back of the Morgan. Lovely chocolate brown rosewood. This guitar has cocobolo bindings. The Morgan is now in it's 9th year, the Larry in it's 8th. The Larry is starting to get that great mid-range mahogany growl. The Morgan is darker in tone and a little more complex. Both have a 25 1/2 scale and are 1 3/4 inches wide at the nut. I'd like to get some better quality photos of these. Must get snapping. I can't get a shot that conveys the richness of the Morgan's top which is aging beautifully.

PeteM

Fingerpicker wrote
I hate that feeling of running up against a bulkhead when you want to move freely on the fretboard.

vic

Gibson LG-2 1946.....still unmolested

Reinhard

My 70's epi jumbo

Gibson Hummingbird

Highway-Chile

vic wrote Gibson LG-2 1946.....still unmolested

WOW!! Vic, that is just a super guitar man. Holy crap! I trust you have this puppy safe and sound and that you keep it humidified and all?

These guitars can have such a super voice. Many other very nice guitars here too folks.
Sweet.

racman

Cornerstone Zion:

guitarboy2828

racman wrote Cornerstone Zion:

Show off! ?

racman

Well, I did wait a few weeks to post a picture of it again, and the thread does ask me to post so I guess it was time..... ? ? ?

Sean

racman wrote Well, I did wait a few weeks to post a picture of it again, and the thread does ask me to post so I guess it was time..... ? ? ?

You can post those pics in any thread, at any time ?

theantirockstar

Ok, here's my Tanglewood. Love it. That Zion looks AMA-zing though!

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