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• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  November 2018 Posts: 613

  Alan - it'll look a lot better when I sell it to you ....

  
• crookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole

  November 2018 Posts: 925

  Looks better in the 2nd, stripped back photo. I look forward to when you sell it.

  always learning
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  December 2018 Posts: 613

  an interesting guitar described as a "Bucolo" on eBay in France
• ChrisMartin Shellharbour NSW Australia✭✭ Di Mauro x2, Petrarca, Genovesi, Burns, Kremona Zornitsa & Paul Beuscher resonator.

  December 2018 Posts: 959

  AndyW wrote: »

  an interesting guitar described as a "Bucolo" on eBay in France

  Yes, that came up on my 'favourite searches' but it is claimed to be a Horace Bucolo. He was the better known as a luthier and did have a workshop in Paris on rue Keller and was supposedly a foreman at Busato before that. His guitars have a fine reputation and do occasionally turn up for sale, there have been a couple here at Djangobooks too.
  The mystery is who was Pierre Bucolo. Did he ever make guitars, or did he always have them made for him? Certainly Pierre Fontaine said he was one of his best customers. So was he just a wholesaler? And are the two even related?
  
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  January 2019 Posts: 613

  This guy may be a useful source of knowledge, he's a well known pro guitarist from Catania in Sicilia and apparently has a collection of historic guitars from the city's luthiers:
  
  Agostino Tilotta:
  
  
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  February 2019 Posts: 613

  This Antonino Napoli guitar is the first I've ever seen with the same soft-shouldered, small-bodied shape as Chris & my Bucolos:
  a possible workshop for some "P. Bucolo- Catania" instruments ?
  The Napoli workshop was in Via Case Sante in Catania.
  c.f. https://www.fetishguitars.com/sicily-southern-italy/antonino-napoli/

  
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  February 2019 Posts: 613

  Here's part two of my P.Bucolo = A. Napoli detective work ;-)
  one (labelled) guitar from each maker.
  More than a coincidental similarity, to my eyes.
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  March 2019 edited March 2019 Posts: 613

  "Attach neck (A) to body (B) using bolts provided (C)"

  
• ChrisMartin Shellharbour NSW Australia✭✭ Di Mauro x2, Petrarca, Genovesi, Burns, Kremona Zornitsa & Paul Beuscher resonator.

  March 2019 edited March 2019 Posts: 959

  Oh ! Where did they come from? I have had the inspection camera inside mine as I need to reset the heel block at some time and I saw no screws. Were they already in there (maybe a previous repair?) or is that your planned fix for what appears to be a poorly designed joint?
  Or did Bucolo make guitars for Ikea?
  In all other respects mine is identical.

  
• crookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole

  March 2019 Posts: 925

  Chris Martin wrote: »

  or did Bucolo make guitars for Ikea?.

  Yes he did, they sold under the name Klumpa.
  

  

  always learning