Meckbach Archtop 2001
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Meckbach Archtop, 2001

3.690,00 €

I built this 17″ archtop guitar in 2001 for a jazz musician.

  • Solid spruce top, maple body, 65 scale, fitted with Carlos pickup. refretted in 2025.
  • Fingerboard, pickguard, tailpiece: ebony.
  • Neck: Maple
  • Machine heads: Schaller
  • 24 frets
  • 45mm saddle width
  • Deep cutaway
  • incl. used case

Originally, the guitar was equipped with a Gibson P-94 single coil in humbucker format as requested, without a pickguard and control options. A pickguard with controls was added later. Over the years it got lost, so I made a new pickguard in 2025.
The old pickup had been replaced by a Carlos floating pickup. Volume and tone pots had also been added.

It was supposed to be punchy, percussive and acoustically really loud. I achieved this by using an unusually high maple bridge on a thin spruce top, whose parallel bracing was glued in under slight tension.

The guitar has two bridges: depending on the sound preference, the light maple bridge with ebony top or the Schaller roller bridge with hardwood bottom can be fitted. The former provides more wooden attack and higher acoustic volume, the latter offers even more sustain.
The guitar is currently strung with D’Addario 12-gauge halfrounds.

This is the first guitar that I built under my own name shortly after my training as a plucked instrument maker. This was the first time I used my “M logo”, which I developed especially for this commissioned work and which I have used for my guitars ever since.

This archtop guitar has been played a lot, and its signs of wear and tear are testament to over 20 years of musicianship.
Technically, everything is fine, and it now works perfectly again with my 2025 setup.
I had the case custom-made for the guitar by Meinel Etuis. It shows very heavy wear and tear, essentially taking on the damage the guitar had been spared thanks to it. After a bit of gluing, it’s now working again.

The instrument is sold with differential taxation; VAT is not shown.
The guitar is available for testing in Diez an der Lahn, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany.

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