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I've made a photoshoot of every guitar I own. Had to do this one, my AMKA accoustic Archtop made in 1938. I've never been an accoustic player, but since I bought this one I've not played electric at home much.
The dimensions are not standard, the builder was clearly experimenting. This guitar was one of the first build by Dutch luthier Veneman in The Hague. He usually made violins, but was persuaded by his sun to build guitars, which he did from 1938 to the early '50ies. I love this guitar. It's all wrong, the fretboard is wide, the neck is warped, the top is split at certain places, but it sounds amazing. Very punchy and very distinct.
I make these photographs usually with our wooden floor as background, but this made it a bit difficult as the contrast between the guitar and the floor was not huge.
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It's playable enough. The neck has had a bad reset at some point, which makes the neck slightly off and the action a tad high in the upper registers. Also there is a slight twist in the neck, which I can see clearly, but weirdly enough doesn't seem to harm the playability too much.I'm not sure how playable it is, but one thing I love about wide fingerboards is that they allow for fine fingerpicking. Given this guitar's age and design, and the music popular at the time, the fingerboard might be wider to allow for fingerstyle-jazz comping?
Handsome box all the same, love the maple top.
I've been meaning to do a family shoot of my four but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Would love to see your axes as well.
Will post 'em when I get to it, I've got individual pics but want to sit them out in the sunlight here for a group shot. Play on, brotha.
Good lord, I love me a triple-aught. Some of the best fingerpicking guitars ever built.
Love the 000-18. Not that the test is too shabby though
Thumpalumpacus , nice collection. A friend of mine had a similar Ibanez. Great guitar.
The test what I have is a Les Paul Gem P90, a Telecaster, a BM1 and my other accoustic guitar, a Washburn D97 which I'm actually trying to sell. I've had it since forever but hardly played it the last 10 years. The AMKA taught me that I actually do like acoustic guitars, but not necessarily that one. Although the Washburn is probably technically the better guitar, the AMKA is way more defined in tone. I think I don't really like the big bottom end sound on the D97. Maybe if I ever go for another flattop accoustic, I will probably go for an 00-style body, so quite a bit smaller and I think I would like it to have the wider neck, like the AMKA.