onewilyfool Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 http://www.om28.com/ProductDetail?product=P150515001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 http://www.om28.com/...duct=P150515001 OK, now I know what a one-of-a-kind $65,000 Gibson looks like. I'm thinking the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation should buy me that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 A hyper nice find. Extraordinary good shape for a mid-thirties guitar We clearly see how art-deco plays a role here - and take a look at that 'super-heel'. Is this period the birth or youth of m.o.p. split-parallelograms. Of course the archer-bow-shaped fret-board-end has survived to this day too. Seen on 200's and the Firebird Custom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Sheesh! From reading the listing, it isn't clear how many of the "Super 400" appointments are original, and how much was done when it was converted from Hawaiian-style. I think I'll pass at that price. Plus, I can't imagine trying to play a guitar with that string spacing, and my hands ain't small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 My Nationals have 1.82 nut width..wouldn't want to play bar chords all night on them, but normal blues picking - great!!!! I have NOT checked my lottery ticket yet.... Things could change drastically - "I'll take it"..."And that one too"..."And that! :unsure: BluesKing777. Edit: Update on the lottery - Pffffffftttttttttt! But next week the jackpot makes it 50 million!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe M Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 What does "converted from Hawaiian" mean??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 What does "converted from Hawaiian" mean??? Think it has to do with the action. The instrument apparently lived a horizontal life in its ealier days - thus had high positioned strings. Correct if wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Think it has to do with the action. The instrument apparently lived a horizontal life in its ealier days - thus had high positioned strings. Correct if wrong. Correct, plus it also requires carving down and re-shaping the neck, which on a Hawaiian, is almost square in cross-sectional shape. Some of the specs scared me away. Weight is 5 pounds, 5 ounces (2.4 kg), which is more than a pound (actually 500 grams +)heavier than a standard J-45. String spacing at the nut is 2.06" (52.3 mm), which means the nut width is at least 2.19" (55.6 mm). String spacing at the bridge is corresponding huge. You better have giant hands if you are going to play this as anything other than a lap-style guitar with a slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullmental Alpinist Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I'm going to buy it just for the pickguard. Anybody want the rest of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Correct, plus it also requires carving down and re-shaping the neck, which on a Hawaiian, is almost square in cross-sectional shape. Some of the specs scared me away. Weight is 5 pounds, 5 ounces (2.4 kg), which is more than a pound (actually 500 grams +)heavier than a standard J-45. String spacing at the nut is 2.06" (52.3 mm), which means the nut width is at least 2.19" (55.6 mm). String spacing at the bridge is corresponding huge. You better have giant hands if you are going to play this as anything other than a lap-style guitar with a slide. Correct, plus the Hawaiian-style Roy Smeck guitars never had frets until the conversion. The fretboard on the Smecks had white lines inlaid where the frets would be (roughly), which made converting to Spanish a more tricky affair when trying to get note accuracy: Yes, a bit on the heavy side; is that more due to the extra lumber on the neck, or was this a laminate maple? And, yes, FullMental, I too could get lost in that pickguard. And a sunburst over a flame maple back has to be one of the more beautiful things to see. Could only imagine what this would sound like. The maple worked well in the small, deep-bodied Gib Nick Lucas- some observations on the Super Smeck 400 were made by Steve Swan when this guitar was being discussed Wednesday on the UMGF Vintage Corner, here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pesh Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 The flame on the neck and the back of the body; looks like fire embers! Beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txcbm Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 That costs more than my first house did. The guitar is probably built better though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Too rich for my blood. I like the part about the guitar not being stored on the premises. Eric is a great, great guitar player and he does have one heck of a shop but his prices go past ridiculous into insane territory. Going by his prices, my Regal 12 string is worth $4K. In the real world top dollar is around $2,500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainpicker Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 That's the one from that huge Guernsey's auction in April of '14 if the serial number is 346A. Wonder what the back story is since then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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