Fulks Run, Virginia: Where the river is clean and there's chicken on the grill!
Semi-Hollow Arch Top Electric: Finished Fall 2000
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Much thanks to my cousin Dick Raffauf, Jr. for this picture set!
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The finished arch top electric guitar.
Includes Schaller humbucker pickups, roller bridge, and stop-piece.
The plate for the five-position switch is hand made from nickel-silver and engraved by Chuck. (Thanks to Jo Boley of Richmond, Virginia ... jeweler extraordinaire...for rolling out the plate to just the right thickness!) See how the three-piece top shines in the lower bout! ...and the bound f-holes!. The face plate was selected from book matched curly maple using a mirror. Scrimshaw inlay was hand cut from reused piano ivory. The oval fingerboard markers are also all hand cut from piano ivory. |
| The glory of the spalted curly maple back!
Click on the photo at right for a closer view.
Check out this close-up and notice how the coco bolo bindings follow the lines of the modified Spanish footer. This design allows for extra room under the fingerboard in the cutaway area. |
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Some great 2002 pics by Diane Elliott (taken for JMUniverse, an internal publication of my employer)
Nice tail view in the shop 97kb
Fine adjustment to the string spacing 148kb
Guitar and barn where my next career will be...and my best buddy and son 245kb
Arch Top Under Construction Page