My personal interpretation of modern archtop, whether it is in shape or in sound.

structure

Top: carved, hand–graduated and tuned, master grade european spruce; Back&sides: carved, hand–graduated master grade european flamed maple; Asymmetric shape 16” size; 76mm. or 52mm. body thickness; Bracing: X braces; Binding: wood binding or no binding with decolored edges in violin-style; Neck: American maple; Fingerboard: ebony 21 frets, 628mm scale with side dots.

pickup&electronics

S1 o H1 fixed on fingerrest; Volume and Tone controls on fingerrest; Ebony or Metal knobs; Minipots 500k Volume, 250k Tone, Aluminium foil/paper-in-oil capacitors; output jack in the bottom of the guitar.

bridge&hardware

Hand-crafted ebony or maple bridge and base. Tailpiece in ebony with fastener to the output Jack; Headstock cover and nut in ebony; Machine head: Gotoh, Grover, or Schaller.

finish

Natural gum hand-applyed, traditional Italian violin maker glossy finish; Color: natural, amber, violin red and cello brown; Satin finish on neck.

double cutaway

The doule cutaway version has same structural and acoustic characteristics of a single cutaway guitar. The advantage is a better access to the higher frets, since in this model the neck joins the body at 18th frets (and not at 14th as the single cutaway model)

52 mm

Thin body Maryan is exactly alike the regular size one in the construction process. The only differrence is its lower air volume, to reduce the feedback. Armonic and acoustic qualities are unchanged.

Wood binding or no binding

Wood binding for lighter colors guitars, no binding for darker colors, where is possible to decolor the edge.

S1

A soapbar single coil with adjustable poles, ebony structure, a double magnetic bar (in Alnico V or II) with opposite polarity, and a very high number of wirings. It allows an output similar to the Humbucker, but with a wide frequency range and a darker sound, very different from traditional single coil pickups.

H1

A soapbar humbucker with adjustable poles, ebony structure, magnets of Alnico V or II. Magnets are specifically placed to emphasize a specific sound. H1 is also characterized by great versatility, dynamics, and allows a very balanced output for every string. In fact it gives the non wound strings the same depth of wound strings.

Controls

Knobs

Paper-in-oil capacitors

Are used vintage style of paper-in-oil capacitors, made by hi-end suppliers (Jansen, Mundorf and others). Use of these quality capacitors allow for a smoother, velvety tone, with an output much superior in comparison to traditional ceramic capacitors.

Output jack

The input jack here placed works also as a hook for fastener tailpiece.

Ebony or maple

The bridge, since it is an antenna, transmits the sound from the strings to the body of the guitar, depending also on the materials it is made from. The maple bridge (as in classic lutherie) makes the attack sweeter than ebony, which is faster in transmission.