{"id":395,"date":"2012-03-22T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2012-04-03T03:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T10:47:20","slug":"custom-blue-line-spring-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Blue Line Spring 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Blue line Guitar built for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roddyellias.com\/\">Roddy Ellias<\/a>. I built it around custom specs that would give him both a wonderful acoustic sound but also provide him with a practical guitar he could gig with and plug in. It is made from all European tone-woods and is carved to be an extremely responsive acoustic archtop. To give the Blue Line a little more air movement I increased the depth from the standard 2.5&#8243; to a little over 3&#8243;. It will have all ebony fittings and a floating handmade Kent Armstrong humbucker pickup attached to the neck with stealth wiring. The neck on this guitar is a little longer than the normal Blue Line at 25&#8243;. Here are a few pictures that show some stages of the build up to the first couple coats of finish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_398\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-398\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0452\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-398\" title=\"DSC_0452\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0452-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Custom Blue Line and 16&quot; Amati <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_397\" style=\"width: 562px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-397\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0401\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-397\" title=\"DSC_0401\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0401-552x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laminating Binding<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_399\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-399\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0461\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-399\" title=\"DSC_0461\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0461-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Headstock<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_400\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-400\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0467\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-400\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-400\" title=\"DSC_0467\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0467-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Line in the white<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_404\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-404\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0508\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-404\" title=\"DSC_0508\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0508-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bound Fhole<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_401\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-401\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0487\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-401\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-401\" title=\"DSC_0487\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0487-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koentopp Custom Blue Line with sealer coats<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_402\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-402\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0497\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-402\" title=\"DSC_0497\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0497-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">European Maple Back<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_403\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-403\" href=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/custom-blue-line-spring-2012\/dsc_0503\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-403\" title=\"DSC_0503\" src=\"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0503-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koentopp Blue Line Guitar with ebony veneered headstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Blue line Guitar built for\u00a0Roddy Ellias. I built it around custom specs that would give him both a wonderful acoustic sound but also provide him with a practical guitar he could gig with and plug in. It is made from all European tone-woods and is carved to be an extremely responsive acoustic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}