Paul's third archtop

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:19 pm

Full hollow 14" archtop.
Engelmann spruce top, Spanish cedar back and sides, maple and African blackwood neck, bloodwood fingerboard, custom wooden pickup rings, knobs, bridge, and lots of binding.

Pickups are a '59 in the neck with series/parallel switch, Twangbucker in the bridge, and a K&K twinspot under the bridge.

25.5" scale, 1-11/16" nut, jumbo stainless frets, and Hipshot tuners.

I'm hoping for some audio samples soon.

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:21 pm

Turquoise dots and banjo-inspired star inlay.

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:30 pm

A few more quick shots.

Greg McKnight · Post by **Greg McKnight** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:42 pm

Pretty cool guitar there.

Bob Francis · Post by **Bob Francis** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:03 pm

Nice Paul!

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:25 pm

A few in progress shots.

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:29 pm

Some more in progress.

Jason Rodgers · Post by **Jason Rodgers** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:34 am

Cool! Great color combos.

What's going on there with the vacuum laminating? Is that a vacuum table? How are those bags secured?

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:55 am

It's a vacuum press. The whole thing lifts open.

Alan Peterson · Post by **Alan Peterson** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:20 pm

Paul Kincaid wrote:It's a vacuum press. The whole thing lifts open.

Is that made from a raised panel door, like from a kitchen cabinet?
If so, oh man... that's very slick.

Jason Rodgers · Post by **Jason Rodgers** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:16 pm

Paul Kincaid wrote:It's a vacuum press. The whole thing lifts open.

Oh, I get it now. There is a membrane across the whole area: I was only seeing the puckered sheets keeping the glue from sticking to it.

Pete Halliday · Post by **Pete Halliday** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:49 pm

Paul--nice looking guitar! If you don't mind I have some controls questions as I'm currently building a hybrid electric/acoustic flat-top and am getting near the point that I need to make some final decisions. What are the functions of the knobs? Are those actually for concentric pots? Do you have an on-board preamp for the K&K? Is there stereo output for acoustic vs. electric source? If you have passive controls on the K&K do you mind sharing what the circuit is? Thanks.

Dan Smith · Post by **Dan Smith** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 7:48 pm

That looks wonderful Paul!
I used a 59 neck pup on my last solid body, it sound's really great with a sound unlike any other hum-buckers I have used.
Did you do any tuning or calculations for the F-hole size and placement?
Looking forward to sound clips, please do a clip un-amplified.
Very sweet!
Dan

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:49 am

The controls in this one are master volume, pickup selector switch, neck tone with push/pull series/parallel switch, and bridge tone. All pots are 500k audio taper, both tone caps are .022mf, and there is a 100k/.002mf parallel treble bleed circuit. The k&k is wired direct to the ring on a stereo jack for external processing or blending only. There is a mini xlr connector with a 500k resistor across the hot and ground on the bridge pickup so that a humbecker could easily be switched.

The sound holes were only calculated by tap tone. Since this guitar is mainly meant to be amplified, keeping them small and the frequency low makes it easy to eq out feedback. The top and back are slightly thicker than with a purely acoustic instrument, which gave us a good balance of acoustic output and feedback resistance at moderate volume.

Darrel Friesen · Post by **Darrel Friesen** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 12:28 pm

Good job. Nice looking axe!

Post by **Barry Daniels** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:24 pm

Can you play it loud at high amplification without feedback?

Dan Smith · Post by **Dan Smith** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:28 pm

Paul Kincaid wrote:The controls in this one are master volume, pickup selector switch, neck tone with push/pull series/parallel switch, and bridge tone. All pots are 500k audio taper, both tone caps are .022mf, and there is a 100k/.002mf parallel treble bleed circuit. The k&k is wired direct to the ring on a stereo jack for external processing or blending only. There is a mini xlr connector with a 500k resistor across the hot and ground on the bridge pickup so that a humbecker could easily be switched.

The sound holes were only calculated by tap tone. Since this guitar is mainly meant to be amplified, keeping them small and the frequency low makes it easy to eq out feedback. The top and back are slightly thicker than with a purely acoustic instrument, which gave us a good balance of acoustic output and feedback resistance at moderate volume.

Thanks, makes sense to me.

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:40 pm

This is the only audio and video that I've seen since it shipped out rhe day I finished wiring it.

11:30 service starting at the 9:40 mark.

http://agapelive.com/streaming-archives ... jbWR3o76rU

Greg Martin · Post by **Greg Martin** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:34 pm

Ive always loved concentric knobs,never seen 2 tone,what brand are those ?

Paul Kincaid · Post by **Paul Kincaid** » Sun Nov 08, 2015 4:11 pm

I made the knobs, and they're not concentric. They are smaller than they look, at under 0.75" at the widest point.

MIMF

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