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New work to show
Vince Hockey took this picture of Tommy Emmanuel, in Vince's shop in Southampton,
UK. Tommy dropped in on a balmy summer day (Britain, right?) and Vince caught him trying out a flat-backed acoustic-electric
guitar topped with an ACME laminated single cutaway top. Vince used solid mahogany for the body.
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I'm pleased to show Gene Milligan's first archtop using Acme parts. Gene bought his top, back, and side set at the
2005 ASIA conference.
| These pictures were supplied by Gene Milligan. |
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| I'm sorry to say that this is all I have; no specifications. |
| These pictures were supplied by JP LaPlante |
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| ACME built a left-handed top and back covered with matching curly maple for this project. |
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| JP ordered the plates only, and bent his sides to his customer's order. |
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I built this hollow-body bass about seven years ago. The maple wings and mahogany center were extensively hollowed
before glue-up. This was my first instrument, except for a dulcimer back in West Virginia in the early '70's.
| I get to first bass. |
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The bass is a 34" scale, ebony fingerboard on a mahogany neck with a maple center lamination. There's a two-way
truss rod and a pair of graphite bars in the neck; very stiff.
The neck-body joint is via four stainless-steel oval head machine screws pulling against t-nuts under the fretboard.
The bridge is a 2TEK, with the addition of a Graph Tech F.A.A.S. piezo saddle and pre-amp package.
| Another by Gene Milligan |
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| A right-handed archtop with a sunburst |
| Gene keeps 'em coming |
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| A left-hander, plates special ordered, no extra charge |
| More pictures from J P LaPlante |
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| J P LaPlante shot this blue 'burst after bleaching the body, which included an added top in curly. |
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