Acoustic Archtops

 



Siegmund Archtop Guitars are all entirely carved by hand using traditional violin making tools, techniques and materials.
No powertools, dubli-carvers or computer routers - these guitars are the real thing made individually one at a time old world style.


Very select european woods for body, western big-leaf maple & lignum vitae for neck,
ebony base & bridge with bone inserts and lignum vitae adjustment wheels,
burl veneer european spruce pickguard with soundholes, split herringbone bound f-holes,
beech rope bound body with increased glue surface at top and back plates,
carved figured burl at headstock & contoured heel, oxbone nut, Grover Imperial MOP tuners,
chrome plated brass tailpiece with abalone veneer, 12% german silver jumbo frets
and herringbone purfling & maple burl bound, compensated radius fingerboard
DeArmond floating pickup 1930s


This all natural instrument was assembled with animal hide glue, entirely.
Parallel bracing, T-shaped fingerboard instead of a steel trussrod and contoured heel.
No plastic was used and the finish is french-polished amber shellac.

Construction time: 350 hours