Ebony

❌SOLD❌ Peter Hopkins Tessa Nova Archtop Electric Guitar Red, 2009

On May 22, 2018 /

This Peter Hopkins Tessa Nova archtop electric was built as part of the ‘Red Collection’ for the 2009 Montreal Guitar Show. A full body archtop with floating Kent Armstrong pickup, it’s built with spectacularly figured Big Leaf Maple and Sitka Spruce.

Used

Price: $6,999.99 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌ SOLD ❌ Michael A Lewis ‘Le Petite Rougette’ Archtop Guitar Red, 2009

On May 10, 2018 /

Michael A Lewis builds very high quality archtop guitars and mandolins in his Grass Valley, California workshop. For a time, Lewis built authorized replicas of D’Angelico instruments though this arrangement has come to an end. He builds largely to order, though some instruments are available from stock. Built for the 2009 Montreal Guitar Show as part of the ‘Red Collection’, this Michael A Lewis ‘Le Petite Rougette’ archtop is an excellent illustration of Lewis’s skill. Fully acoustic with an Bartolini jazz pickup mounted to the fingerboard and pickup, this guitar is in excellent condition.

Used

Price: $6,999.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌ SOLD ❌ Wildwood Heirloom Open Back 5-String Banjo, 2008

On March 28, 2018 /

The Wildwood Heirloom traditional open-back banjo is handmade by master luthier Mark Platin in Bend, Oregon, and features a Tubaphone style tone ring and engraved vintage theme inlays. The Wildwood Heirloom pot is built around Wildwood’s turned rock-maple block rim, fitted with a brass Tubaphone replica tone ring and Waverly tailpiece. This banjo also has the historic Vega banjo ‘bracket band’ upgrade.

Used

Price: $1,990.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Caldersmith Concert Classical Number 73, Red Cedar and Walnut, 2009

On March 27, 2018 /

Here’s a treat – a Graham Caldersmith Concert Classical Number 73 guitar from 2009, with lattice-braced Red Cedar top and lovely American Walnut for the back and sides.
Graham Caldersmith has long been interested in musical instruments, and after a detour that led to a Masters in Aerophysics – advanced study of Mars – in 1978 he decided to shift to full time lutherie. His shop builds concert classical guitars, violins, violas, and cellos, based on careful research he himself conducts.

Used

Price: $4,000.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Ray’s Rootworks Shellback Mandolin 2018

On March 22, 2018 /

This Shellback Mandolin uses a surprisingly wide range of materials. The top is nicely figured Redwood, and the shellback – based on the Fibonacci spiral found naturally in many shells – is made of Cherry veneer with a Spruce center point. The side rims are Maple, with Wenge, Ebony and Spanish Cedar for the neck joint. The neck itself is birds-eye maple with a Padouk center strip and Ebony for the fingerboard.

New

Price: $2,599.99 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌ SOLD ❌ Olivo Chiliquinga Requinto Guitar, 1982

On March 22, 2018 /

This very nicely built Olivo Chiliquinga Requinto Guitar was built in Toronto, Canada during 1982 by Olivo Chiliquinga at his Olivo Guitar Company workshop. It is constructed with a Cedar top, Indian Rosewood for the back, sides, headplate and bridge, mahogany for the neck and ebony for the fingerboard. The tuners are quality Schaller models, gold-coloured with faux pearl buttons. It also sports a set of the original Twelfth Fret bridge transducer pickups, mounted to an end-pin jack. This wonderful instrument plays well and is in overall good condition, with a few small marks on the top and back acquired over the last 36 years. A hard shell case, possibly the original, is included and is in working order.

Vintage

Price: $1,450.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

Ebony

❌SOLD❌ Peter Hopkins Tessa Nova Archtop Electric Guitar Red, 2009

❌ SOLD ❌ Michael A Lewis ‘Le Petite Rougette’ Archtop Guitar Red, 2009

❌ SOLD ❌ Wildwood Heirloom Open Back 5-String Banjo, 2008

❌SOLD❌ Caldersmith Concert Classical Number 73, Red Cedar and Walnut, 2009

❌SOLD❌ Ray’s Rootworks Shellback Mandolin 2018

❌ SOLD ❌ Olivo Chiliquinga Requinto Guitar, 1982

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