rob aylestone
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Rampant Colt
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Rampant Colt
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rob aylestone
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Thanks - I have to say I really like the one that has the wavy inlay down the fretboard - that's a very pretty guitar.
Rampant Colt
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That is a falcate braced guitar (carbon fiber) such as Trevor Gore & Gerard Gilet developed. Even the bridge & bridge plate are carbon fiber. The resonance is astonishing.
Both of those luthiers are from Australia, but mine was built by Jacob Van Gundy in Ohio, USA.
TalismanRich
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That's quite a nice collection.
What year is The Gibson A style mandolin? I know quite a few people who worked there in Kalamazoo back in the day. One has collected mandolins that her dad helped build.
What year is The Gibson A style mandolin? I know quite a few people who worked there in Kalamazoo back in the day. One has collected mandolins that her dad helped build.
Rampant Colt
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1934.
60's guy
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I'm loving the looks of your Breedlove!
Rampant Colt
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So this guitar is part of a “Limited Edition”, for whatever that means, but I think it mainly has to do with finish. This specific guitar has the requisite specs I look for in my guitars. It happens to be Myrtle over Myrtle and I’m assuming has a sound profile close to Mahogany over Mahogany, or perhaps even Koa over Koa, OR none of the above.I'm loving the looks of your Breedlove!
I purchased a new Breedlove SC20-MY in 1998 which was Spruce over Myrtle. An absolute incredible guitar in every aspect. But SO much has changed in the company since then I’m unsure of their direction as a company now.
I understand they no longer use the JLD Bridge Doctor, and I’m not familiar with the Delta pinless bridge, but assume it’s close to what my 1998 was.
Here are the specs:
Body Shape: Concert
Top Wood: Myrtlewood
Back and Sides Wood: Myrtlewood
Finish: Earthsong Burst Gloss
Neck Wood: Eastern Hard Rock Maple
Fretboard: Ebony
Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Nut: Bone
Neck Joint: Dovetail
Scale Length: 25.5"
Number of Frets: 20
Fingerboard Radius: 16”
Fingerboard Binding: East Indian Rosewood
Inlay: Mosaic Pins
Tuning Machines: Gotoh SG381-EN01 Gold with Ebony Buttons
Strap Button Heel: Gotoh EP-B2 Gold
Strap Button Butt: Ebony
Headstock Overlay: Ebony
Upper Bout Width: 11.28"
Waist Width: 9"
Lower Bout Width: 15.37"
Body Depth: 19.875"
Bracing Pattern: Breedlove USA Concert
Bridge: Delta Pinless Bridge, Ebony
Saddle: Bone Compensated
String Spacing At Saddle: 2 5/16”
Binding: East Indian Rosewood
Purfling: Koa
Rosette: East Indian Rosewood/Koa
Case: Deluxe Hardshell
Made In: Bend, Oregon, USA
Breedlove partnered with One Tree Planted for this guitar. Not surprising given their commitment to sustainability. There is ZERO plastic on the guitar (save perhaps the polymer lubricants in the Gotoh machines).
I’ll leave you with a few more pics….
50 were made.
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Rampant Colt
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We really have Tom Bedell to thank for Breedlove not going completely under. Had it not been for him they most certainly could have.I'm loving the looks of your Breedlove!
So still in the Breedlove vein, here is an uber rare Bedell Custom…
Specifications:
- Body Type: Parlor - Deep Body
- Neck Wood: Honduran Mahogany
- Top Wood: Redwood
- Back & Sides: Cocobolo
- Top Finish: Gloss
- Back & Side Finish: Gloss
- Fretboard: Ebony
- Nut: Bone
- # Frets: 18
- Nut Width: 1.75"
- Tuners: Waverly #4067-G, Gold, Ebony Buttons
- Lower Bout Width: 14.25"
- Waist Width: 8.75"
- Upper Bout Width: 10.312"
- Body Length: 19.67"
- Body Depth: 3.625" at neck, 4.25" at tailblock
- String Gauge: Lights
- Saddle: Compensated Bone
- Fingerboard Radius: 16”
- Electronics: None
- Binding: East Indian Rosewood
- Inlay: Fireside - Figured Maple
- Bridge: Pyramid, Ebony
- Scale Length: 25.0"
- Sound Hole: 3 7/8"
- Hand Tuned: Yes
- Case: Bedell Custom Ameritage Case
PorterhouseMusic
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Man... what a collection. Schwing. That Breedlove is a stunner. Just wow. The Bedell too!
Rampant Colt
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Thank you. I really appreciate it.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
Pretty! What are the rest of them? I can't make them all out by make, and models it'd mostly be guesswork.
Rampant Colt
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They’re listed in my signature.
Madsen SJ & AM
Dowina Vintage Chardonnay
Breedlove Oregon Concert Earthsong Ltd.
Van Gundy Custom
Iris AB & BB
Cirrus CHG-18
Furch Yellow Dark GC-RR
Lowden F10
Bedell Fireside Parlor
Gibson A-4 (1934)
Hill A-5 Custom
Deering Boston
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
Not sure if you can edit posts or if there's a one hour timer or something here, I forget... but adding a caption to each of those pictuires would help a lot!
Even without though, you have an awesome collection of acoustics, those are some beautiful instruments.
Even without though, you have an awesome collection of acoustics, those are some beautiful instruments.
Rampant Colt
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Wel, I had them in imgur, but you can’t access it over there.
TalismanRich
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The problem that I found with sites like Imgur is that when they change the access rules, all the links change, and you lose the image in the messages. Or the person deletes the file from the free site to save space and you end up with broken links. I've seen it happen with lots of photos from Imgur, Dropbox and Photobucket.
I had a collection of videos on Dropbox, and then they changed the access method and all the links broke. There was no way to go back and edit the posts a year later.
Uploading the photos to the site is, to me, the preferred method. We don't need 20 megapixel photos anyway.
I had a collection of videos on Dropbox, and then they changed the access method and all the links broke. There was no way to go back and edit the posts a year later.
Uploading the photos to the site is, to me, the preferred method. We don't need 20 megapixel photos anyway.
Rampant Colt
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It’s never just quite good enough, is it?
Mick Doobie
Jack of All Tirades
Nice. A beautiful collection, gorgeous.
