Kent Armstrong

❌SOLD❌ Paquet Esperanto 18 Cedar Top Archtop Guitar, 2018

On March 13, 2023 /

Built in Montreal, the Paquet Esperanto 18 Archtop guitar is a full size model with hand carved top and back, large soundholes in the upper bouts and a Kent Armstrong pickup. This example was built during 2018 at Paquet’s shop in a suburb of Montreal. It is in very good condition, with one small finish chip to the back of the neck.

Used

Price: $3,450.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

SOLD Eastman AR803ce Archtop Electric Guitar Sunburst, 2009

On December 2, 2021 /

The Eastman AR803ce archtop falls in the category of the ‘Jazz Box’ guitar – providing the warm, rich, rounded tone an arched top guitar provides so well. Eastman is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hand made, carved top instruments, with a background in violin and cello family construction. They pride themselves on following European luthiery traditions, particularly those flowing from 17th century German builders. At the time, many of the the most respected Italian builders were actually German!

Used

Price: $2,199.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Eastman AR803ce Archtop Sunburst, 2008

On November 5, 2021 /

Now discontinued, the Eastman AR803ce Archtop Electric features a 16 inch wide, single Venetian cutaway body with carved, solid Spruce top and Flame Maple back. The sides and neck are also Flamed Maple, with Ebony for the bridge, headplate and bound fingerboard. Hardware is gold coloured, with Gotoh tuners bearing ‘Imperial’ deco-style stairstep tuner buttons. The original Ebony / metal tailpiece has been replaced with a standard trapeze model.

Used

Price: $2,199.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌Eastman El Rey ER2 Thinline Archtop Electric Sunburst, 2006

On February 28, 2021 /

The Eastman El Rey ER2 is designed to produce a full archtop sound from a smaller, much lighter body – it is only 14 inches across, a bit bigger than a Gibson Les Paul. Otherwise it has a relatively typical archtop construction – solid, hand carved spruce top, solid and hand carved flame maple back, solid flame maple sides and neck, and ebony for the fingerboard, bridge base, and tailpiece cover.

Used

Price: $1,599.99 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Tony Duggan Smith Mystic Short Scale Archtop Blonde, 1995

On June 9, 2020 /

Here is a treat – a Tony Duggan Smith Mystic, a short scale (21.89 inch, 556mm) cutaway archtop built during 1995 at Duggan-Smith’s Toronto shop. Tony Duggan-Smith has been around the Canadian arts music and film scene for decades. He was a member of the Pukka Orchestra and Neotone after apprenticing with Jean Larrivee and leading the repair department at Ring Music, then run by Bill Wagner and Michael McLuhan (yes that McLuhan.), and has also over a decade of work in the film industry. One of his current projects is the Apprehension Engine, an instrument specifically designed for use in horror films.

Used

Price: $5,650.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ American Archtop Unger American Dream Archtop Guitar Natural, 2002

On January 2, 2020 /

This Unger archtop – an American Dream model, was built with solid hand-carved German Spruce top, hand carved European Flame Maple back, and Flame Maple for the sides and neck. The body is unbound. The neck carries an unbound Ebony fingerboard, and Ebony is also used for the bridge, tailpiece, and pickguard. Schaller tuners are mounted on the head and a Kent Armstrong pickup is mounted to the top in the neck position, and volume and tone controls are mounted beside the lower part of the the treble F-hole.

Used

Price: $3,000.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

Kent Armstrong

❌SOLD❌ Paquet Esperanto 18 Cedar Top Archtop Guitar, 2018

SOLD Eastman AR803ce Archtop Electric Guitar Sunburst, 2009

❌SOLD❌ Eastman AR803ce Archtop Sunburst, 2008

❌SOLD❌Eastman El Rey ER2 Thinline Archtop Electric Sunburst, 2006

❌SOLD❌ Tony Duggan Smith Mystic Short Scale Archtop Blonde, 1995

❌SOLD❌ American Archtop Unger American Dream Archtop Guitar Natural, 2002

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