Cheap acoustic archtop?

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Nightfire

Nightfire

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Hey,
can anyone recomend me a cheap acoustic archtop? Any old brands that could be picked up for cheap on ebay?


Thanks

Mike
 
Your right I shouldve mentioned a budget.
Despite some of the laughs Im gonna get, the budget is about $100-150.
Its for experimental purposes.


Mike
 
Also, in the $100 budget, what kind of parlor guitars should I be looking at (those small but full curved acoustic guitars) as far as used goes?

Thanks,

Mike
 
Hey Nightfire,

I have my dad's old Kay archtop from 1948. Although I believe Kay was a department store type brand, he bought the best one they had (couldn't spring the extra $75 for a bottom-of-the-line Gibson (damn!). It is a beautiful instrument with lots of inlays and nice bindings - also has a nice plucky, retro, mid-rangey kind of sound. Kind of hard to play though as the action is less than great.

I've seen a few older models similar to mine for a few hundred on ebay and many cheaper models for $100 or less. Just a thought...
 
Harmony is a good place to look on ebay and on craigslist/pawnshops etc etc

I think you could also look around for a cheaper off brand like silvertone which is the same thing as Harmony.

Parlor guitars can be a lot of fun and in fact there are a bunch of them on shopgoodwill.com right now that look really sweet from Stella among other brands...

I picked one up at a music store for $50 that has some sort of Pat Pending adjustable neck that you turn a bolt to convert the guitar from a "hawaiian" to a "western" sounds like cardboard and waxed paper rubbing together when I play it but then again that was what I was looking for.
 
Thanks for all the info.
I went to all the pawnshops yesterday and found an old Silvertone, the dude wanted $500 cause it was a collectible:rolleyes: He also had a TEAC 8 channel mixer that he wanted $500 for because it had tubes and he said tubes are collector items nowadays:rolleyes:
Needless to say I got outta there, but couldnt find anything else in the city.
I will take a look at Kay, Silvertone, Harmony and Stella.
The archtop I want to use to mount some guitarfetish pickups on it (the gretsch type), and the parlor guitar I want to get that old folky guitar sound for some of my songs.


Mike
 
sounds like you need to look on ebay or craigslist
 
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