Not really but slightly different.
This is what was originally the Jimmy D'Aquisto inspired modern sound hole guitar. That definitely wasn't working sound wise. So I retopped it with a Big Bouche (thank you to whoever came up with that) top. And for various reasons it ended up blue. It's the first time I've ever dyed wood...I think it looks pretty damn good. I'm calling it "Blue Burst". There's some amber in there.
I still need to finish the neck but I thought you all might like seeing it in progress.
I'll turn this into a classified when it's done.
Apologies for all the self promotion....
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The back and sides look stunning!
yeah this old guy retired and donated all this beautiful wood to me including a ton of this maple. It's crazy beautiful stuff.
Wow, that looks fantastic. The beauty of the woods still fully comes through. I'm not a fan when the wood is completely masked. I'm a fan of this one.
And what a good fortune to inherit a stash of wood like that.
Not sure what type of blue you used but I was always fascinated by the different colors some of the Chinery guitars turned, some almost immediately. Some went purple-ish, some went orange-ish, some towards turquoise, most towards a green-ish hue. But I think he had commissioned the luthiers to use a certain type of blue tint. No doubt there have been improvements in color stability in the last quarter century or so. But there is some sort of synchronicity that this guitar started as a D'Aquisto inspired instrument that then ended up blue!
I used a 3 transtint dyes. The Chinery guitars used a Mohalk blue dye I think. Afaik there were specific application directions that didn't get passed on so some of the guitars faded, most notably Tom Ribbeke's, which went straight to brown. A lot of them look perfect. I saw them all and played a lot at the Fretboard Summit 2 years ago. The Collins and Gibson were my favs playing wise but it was cool to see the D' Aquisto in person.
Wow...beautiful!
Oooh, I like it!! You could call it 'The Peacock' with those colours, or in French La Paonne
From what I read after I posted my comment, some of the maple ages to more yellow. So yellow & blue make green. I think you can see some original photos with folks like Tal Farlow and GE Smith holding the guitars that they are very blue where now they are more greenish/blue-greenish. Some said it might be the finish reacting to UV light and that PRS blue guitars do a similar aging thing. Still, its pretty stunning.
This was pretty much an experiment...I learned a lot. It looks pretty great considering. Next time I will hopefully have it a bit more under control but I like this a lot.
Here's something else I'm working on. I don't really like the looks of wires coming off the top of guitars. So I have planning this for a while. Additionally the goal is to help tame the sound of these guitars to make them easier to amplify and mic for live settings. So this is a humbucker mount with some small sound holes to tame but not eliminate the acoustic sound.
The idea is that I can have a little jack velcro'd to the top and a mini plug on the pickup. I can slide this in and plug it in. It sticks in with fun tack. There's an inner rim to keep it in place.
Whether I can make a humbucker work with these guitars remains to be seen. Right now I have a cheap one from Guitar Fetish to try.
Anyone used a humbucker with Argentines before? I'm open to non humbucker pickup suggestions but it needs to be something I can adjust for height I think.