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Composite Acoustics carbon fiber travel guitar
Talk about a great idea that didn’t seem to catch on! Feast your eyes on the Composite Acoustics “Cargo” carbon fiber acoustic travel guitar. From their website: “Composite materials allow us to break with tradition in more than one way. Molding a one-piece body enables us to shape the form of an acoustic guitar to the contours of the player’s body. Our guitars are lighter, stronger and more comfortable as a result. Our soundboards are extremely responsive, making for a very clear and powerful guitar. Each guitar is hand-crafted, yet employs computer guidance to control precise tolerances from design to assembly.” It seems the company wasn’t able to stay afloat,…
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Travis Bean makes the scene
It’s kind of like seeing a unicorn. There were a mere 755 of these produced during the company’s relatively short existence during the 1970s. This one is a beauty! From Wikipedia: Clifford Travis Bean (21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011, aged 63) was an American luthier and machinist from California. In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks. The aluminum center section ran through the instrument body, with the pickups directly mounted to the aluminum. The majority of these instruments featured solid Koa wood bodies and Humbucker pickups. Though praised for their…
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1998 PRS McCarty hollowbody archtop
Here’s a lovely 25-year old Paul Reed Smith McCarty hollowbody archtop on the bench for a Southeast Setup, including a new set of Ernie Ball Slinkys. It’s hard to not get lost staring into the beautiful figure of that tiger maple body! IMG_6516.480
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Fender Dread CD-60 Acoustic set-up
How to you turn a $200 guitar into something special? Swap out the plastic nut and saddle for bone, and give it a Southeast Setup, of course! Which is exactly what we did for this beauty. Now it sounds like a million bucks. Or, at least $750! And it plays better than it did when it left the factory in Indonesia. A small investment in a few parts and an expert setup will always bring out the best in your instrument.