Bourgeois Luthier's Choice 5
The Archtop .
(click on photo for enlarged view)Pantheon is pleased to reintroduce the legendary Bourgeois Acoustic Archtop with a Limited Edition of 12 instruments. To read the press release click here.
HEAR SOUND SAMPLE (MP3) of the LCIV. The guitar you are hearing is #2 of 12 and is being played by Eddie Berman of Indoor Storm.
NOTE THE COLOR DIFFERENCES IN THE SUNBURSTS ON THE ARCHTOPS BELOW. EACH SUNBURST IS HAND SPRAYED BY DANA BOURGEOIS HIMSELF AND THE COLORS VARY DEPENDING ON SEVERAL FACTORS INCLUDING THE COLOR OF THE TOP WOOD. WE LOVE THAT THIS MAKES EACH PIECE IN THIS LIMITED EDITION EVEN MORE LIMITED!
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view. Use back button to return to page.)SPECS:
Limited Edition of 12. Signed and numbered.
16 3/4" x 3" Cutaway Archtop with carved top & back.
Solid Premium Carved Sitka Spruce top.
Solid Premium Carved Curly Maple back & sides.
Three piece Curly Maple neck.
Ebony Snakehead style headstock trimmed with white purfling.
Violin 'Burst top with Violin back, sides and neck.
1 23/32" bone nut.
25.5" scale length.
Elevated, Ebony Fretboard with standard Bourgeois frets.
No Fingerboard inlay.
Fretboard binding is Black with white purfling.
Double Action Truss rod, adjustable at head.
X-braced Top.
Tortoise shell body binding with Black/White top purfling.
No F hold binding.
Adjustable Ebony bridge with Gold thumbwheels.
Ebony tailpiece with white purfling and black aluminium hinge (not pictured).
Floating Ebony pickguard with white purfling (not pictured).
High gloss finish on body and neck.
Gold Schaller tuners with Ebony buttons.
Acoustic Phosphur medium strings.
No pickup.
Premium hardshell case.
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Page last updated: September 18, 2002
