Originally Posted by Howard Emerson (Post 7448745)

It is arched, of course, and it is chambered . . .

Originally Posted by Sam Sherry (Post 7450360)

2.5" deep? 2.75" deep?

What's under the stop tailpiece -- a thick top, an attached bar, a pier reaching the back, something else?

Is there a port on the top bout or is it fully-closed?

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson (Post 7450977)

No matter how 'chambered' it might be,

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson (Post 7450977)

. . . most people would probably consider it a solid body for all intensive porpoises.

Originally Posted by Sam Sherry (Post 7452594)

"Chambered" is an electric-guitar-builder's term of art. It means that instead of bent sides a solid block of wood is routed away to create a hollow space.

For example, the Epi WildKat is chambered:

http://i.imgur.com/itCRDt9.jpg

John Monteleone did not rout away 2.5" of wood to create this guitar. It has bent sides or dinner's on me.


It's a hollow guitar, maestro. Look at how much thicker it is than a solid-body Les Paul:
https://gear-vault.com/wp-content/up...uitar-side.jpg
See how the LP's jack takes up almost the entire side, but the Monte's has an inch or so on top and bottom?

Yes, it has a maple top.
Yes, it's built to play through an amp.
Yes, I would be mighty happy to let it stay at my house while it settles in over the next few decades.

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson (Post 7452654)

Hi Sam,
Do you want to send me gift card, or will you coming down this way anytime soon so we can have dinner together?

It's an odd, but slightly satisfying feeling being spoken to as if I were young and ill-informed. I wish I was still that young, but hey.......a meal is a meal.

It's a maple cap, and a two-piece mahogany slab that John joined, and then marked out for a center neck block, AND for 1/2" thick sides. He band sawed away the waste, and then inlaid thin mahogany veneer fillets to fill the band saw cut.

Orville Gibson is kvelling in his grave.

Best regards,
Howard Emerson

Originally Posted by dilver (Post 7452713)

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A Gibson CS-336 has back and sides that are carved out of a single piece of mahogany capped with a maple top. It sounds surprisingly a lot like a Les Paul, but a touch smoother.

https://imgur.com/a/sgnc7U4
https://imgur.com/a/sgnc7U4

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson (Post 7452654)

Hi Sam,
Do you want to send me gift card, or will you coming down this way anytime soon so we can have dinner together?

It's an odd, but slightly satisfying feeling being spoken to as if I were young and ill-informed. I wish I was still that young, but hey.......a meal is a meal.

It's a maple cap, and a two-piece mahogany slab that John joined, and then marked out for a center neck block, AND for 1/2" thick sides. He band sawed away the waste, and then inlaid thin mahogany veneer fillets to fill the band saw cut.

Orville Gibson is kvelling in his grave.

Best regards,
Howard Emerson