Double Top Selmer

Michael Collins

I have recently begun making double top Selmer style guitars. Here is the latest version strung up in the white. I would appreciate any feedback. I am hoping this guitar will make it's debut at DjangoFest North West. Please pardon my bad playing.



Thanks for having a look.

Michael Collins
www.collinsguitar.com

woodamand

The idea is to make them louder like they do for classical guitars, right?

Michael Collins

Well, my goal is to make the sound fuller with more clarity and a broad spectrum of overtones. They are definitely louder, but that is not really my goal.

Buco

To me it sounded similar to a flattop. But I don't mean that in a negative sense. And it sounded really nice, very rich single notes. Sometimes people are looking for one versatile guitar that can fulfill several different styles and this model would then be the perfect choice.
Definitely a lot of nice overtones. It would be nice to hear it when the strings are more broken in, right now it's a bit bright for me, especially for rhythm in this style I like to hear more mellow and warmer sound.
I love to see new ideas, or new uses for existing methods, would love to run into it and play someday. And your asking prices have always been fair I thought.
Thanks for sharing.

woodamand

Michael
Let me know if you need someone to break in the strings on this one, I would be happy to do it for no charge! And it IS a nice sounding guitar for sure.

Michael Collins

As for the brightness, this was recorded a couple of hours after I had initially strung the instrument. My technique is obviously lacking as well. Maybe I can get Michael Viteri over here to play it properly, or anybody else with a good technique in the Houston area?

Jazzaferri

Sounds pretty good through my headphones. I will give it a whirl at Djangofest if I can get my life back under control

Bohemian

Agreed, sounds like a flat-top.

Rather wide frets ?

Interesting fret markers and sound hole treatment...
over into Michael Dunn territory ?

Bones

Guitars are typically VERY bright when strung up in the white and played right away. They mellow out pretty quickly like within days in my experience. But very bright right off the bat.

Lango-Django

Forgive my ignorance... what is a double top guitar?

Buco

Lango-Django wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance... what is a double top guitar?

My basic understanding is that It consists of literally two guitar tops but much thinner than traditionally and a composite sheet of a honeycomb structure sandwiched between them. Started in classical guitar building in 80s and later found it's way to still string guitar building.