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Nice work, John.... great pics.

Brings back a few memories.....

Thanks John, That is what I was thinking with the pickup selection and placement very cool looking. What awesome experience.

Really nice photos, John. Thanks!

One small correction: there are three Jackson Browne Limited Edition prototypes. There's the Jetglo one with the maple fretboard that you showed, the torquoise one with the bubinga fretboard that I reproduced, and the Fireglo (or Amberglo?) one with the maple fretboard, white plastic and the odd pickup spacing.

You can see the Fireglo one in this photo, just above and behind the torquoise one.

Great pics.......I used to have that same Smiths t-shirt as well !!

Wow! What a blast that must have been! Thanks for the shots of the museum guitars, I've been curious about several of those. The detail on the Sam Cooke guitar especially blows my mind...I've wanted to see more of that one since seeing the old black & white pic decades ago. How did it sound? I have an old Harmony Archtone and there is really nothing like playing blues on an archtop.

Dom wrote:How did it sound? I have an old Harmony Archtone and there is really nothing like playing blues on an archtop.

Well, hard to say. I mean, I'm holding the thing with practically-trembling hands, making sure I don't swing it around too abruptly, plus it was tuned a bit low (probabaly D-D) and was out, so I spent 10 of my 30 seconds with it trying to tune it, another 10 seconds having my photo taken, and the other 10 doing a little Chet-esque picking on it, which I don't suppose it was made for.

That all being said , it had a very sweet tone - not as loud as I was expecting, but Rossmeisl seemed to favor thicker tops on his archtop builds. It quite reminded me of the unplugged tone of my old '62 ES-125. I would have loved to try it against the modern day Jazz-Bo prototype, which has been one of my dream guitars since the first time I laid eyes on it. I'm hoping that we get to see some production of those one day. Oh, and with a single neck toaster. Yeah.

I thought the Sam Cooke Jazzbo played great!


Nice neck shape, low action, rounded fingerboard radius. Just a great jazz guitar. I mostly did some fingerpicking on it, but it was very comfortable.

sloop_john_b wrote: It quite reminded me of the unplugged tone of my old '62 ES-125. I would have loved to try it against the modern day Jazz-Bo prototype, which has been one of my dream guitars since the first time I laid eyes on it. I'm hoping that we get to see some production of those one day. Oh, and with a single neck toaster. Yeah.

I too would love to see a Jazz-Bo with a toaster. Archtops are the bees knees. For my music I prefer even a cheap archtop like the Harmony or a Kay to any flatop. I can't get a toaster to fit on my Harmony so I'm permanently stuck in feedback mode with a Tiesco pup. Great for recording, but no good at gigs. It's one of the reasons I decided to stick a piezo under my bridgeplate.

Nothing wrong with the sound of an unplugged ES-125 either. John Lee Hooker played one heck of a version of Hobo Blues with one unplugged.

I just got around to looking at all the photos. Thanks, John. Man, what an opportunity! You're a lucky dude, all right.
JimK

sloop_john_b wrote:I thought you guys might enjoy my photos of a recent factory/museum tour I took with Collin:

http://www.johnbiscuti.net/photos/

Major thanks goes to Ben for taking the time to indulge us.

WOW. great pics. lucky ducks.

suedehead71 wrote: WOW. great pics. lucky ducks.

Twas a good day, capped off with burritos & beers in Monterrey Park.

sloop_john_b wrote:

suedehead71 wrote: WOW. great pics. lucky ducks.

Twas a good day, capped off with burritos & beers in Monterrey Park.

i'd imagine. my evil twin coLLin is good company!

suedehead71 wrote:

sloop_john_b wrote:

suedehead71 wrote: WOW. great pics. lucky ducks.

Twas a good day, capped off with burritos & beers in Monterrey Park.

i'd imagine. my evil twin coLLin is good company!

...with enough beer.

suedehead71 wrote:Monterrey Park.

That's where we go for dim sum when we are in L.A. NBC Seafood. No TVs in the place, IIRC.

jps wrote:

suedehead71 wrote:Monterrey Park.

That's where we go for dim sum when we are in L.A. NBC Seafood. No TVs in the place, IIRC. [/quote]

My girl was born and raised there -- best Chinese food I've had BY FAR!