{"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":"

This is a Blue line Guitar built for\u00a0Roddy 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″ to a little over 3″. 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″. Here are a few pictures that show some stages of the build up to the first couple coats of finish.<\/p>\n

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Custom Blue Line and 16" Amati <\/p><\/div>\n

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Laminating Binding<\/p><\/div>\n

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Headstock<\/p><\/div>\n

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Blue Line in the white<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bound Fhole<\/p><\/div>\n

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Koentopp Custom Blue Line with sealer coats<\/p><\/div>\n

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European Maple Back<\/p><\/div>\n

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Koentopp Blue Line Guitar with ebony veneered headstock<\/p><\/div>\n

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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 […]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-construction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t