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Opatik Guitars

18" Carved Top

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This is a big guitar with a big neck
and a big sound.  12 frets to the neck
joint to put the bridge right in the
sweet spot.  I'm thinking a transparent
black lacquer finish.

 The P. A. "Downey" Style

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  • Neck thru construction
  • Basswood body
  • Maple neck
  • Rosewood fingerboard
  • Aluminum bridge
  • P-90s

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Big Jumbo w/carved back
Gretsch, Epiphone & Guild all had big Flat Tops with arched backs.  
Spruce top, 2 pc. maple neck w/center strip, bound
rosewood fingerboard & bridge w/vintage Kluson tailpiece & Grover Imperials.  Inlaid MOP logo on ebony headstock and bound  tortoise scratchplate finish it off.  Big bass notes seem to jump out of the oval soundhole
.  Going to sunburst neck, back & sides, natural top.  Lower bout: 45cm or just shy of 18".  Scale length is 66cm or 26".


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Big Jumbo
Here's a shot of the carved back. A little hard to see in the
light.  This is hand carved rock maple and represents quite a few man hours of labor.

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