Griffin/Arnold | Dreadnought | 1995 | SN:2495
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- Model: Dreadnought
- Serial no: 2495
- Year: 1995
- Top: Adirondack spruce, from a tree harvested by Ted Davis after Hurriance Opel.
- Back and sides: Brazilian rosewood
- Neck: Mahogany
- Purfling: Herringbone
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Bridge: Ebony
- Nut Width: 1 3/4″
- String Spacing: 2 1/4″
- Scale: 25.4″
- Body Length: 19 7/8″
- Lower Bout: 15 5/8″
- Upper Bout: 11 3/8″
- Pricing: US$6,500 spa
This started out as a 1995 Ronnie Griffin guitar herringbone reproduction with a sitka top and brazilian rosewood back and sides. In 1999/2000, the owner had the reknown John Arnold of Tn retop the guitar to a Adirondack top from salvaged from the Smoky Mountains after the 1995 hurricane Opel because he wanted adirondack. The result is phenomenally loud yet responsive guitar.
John Arnold’s guitars are extremely rare and extremely sought after- more so than Wayne Henderson’s. Ronnie Griffin has recently retired and is only accepting small repair work.
John no longer has any Smoky mountain tops for sale and the brazilian is high grade material, this is a guitar that will make any player happy. The action is low, neck is vintage shaped, nut width 1 3/4 at nut. also bone nut and saddle.
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Drool……!
Very nice instrument.