This is an Alvarez Acoustic guitar, model 5032. It was bought around 1994. Condition is very good. The label says "Silver Anniversary" which possibly means the guitar was made in 1990 - when the Alvarez brandname celebrated its silver anniversary. The BlueBook of acoustic guitars, however, says that this model was introduced in 1994 and discontinued in 1998.
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The sides and backs of the APX20D are sycamore, and it has a solid spruce top. The neck is African mahogany with an ebony fingerboard. The D suffix indicates a slightly deeper body than other APX guitars: the body depth is 90mm (neck side), 100mm (bridge side) with a 12mm round back bulge. It has a unique asymetrical oval shape soundhole with an asymetrical bridge.
The Yamaha APX7 CT was a thinline electro-acoustic 6 string guitar. The top was spruce and it had ovangkol nack and sides. Body dimensions were: neck side- 75mm (2-15/16") and bridge side 85mm (3-3/8").
The Lys L5 had a Canadian spruce top with mahogany back and sides, ebony bridge and fingerboard. The mahogany neck had 21 frets. The L5 was finished in transparant lacquer.
Lys guitars were made in LaPatrie, Quebec. The Lys guitars were built by Canadian luthier Norman Butcher, who also made the Kamouraska classical guitar. In the last part of 1980 fire ruined Butcher's shop and he was financially too weak to rebuild. Hence he sold everything to Robert Godin, who rebaptized the Lys to Seagull and the Kamouraska to LaPatrie.
This easy to follow PDF guide shows you how to make your own electric cigar box guitar. Its author Ed Vogel says
Cool Acoustics started as a PhD project in industrial design by Owain Pedgley in 1999. It is now a guitar innovation project, hosted by Loughborough University in the UK.
Kristen Fowler and her friend Shalisa Francis made this amazing guitar shaped birthday cake for Shalisa's sister Denise. You can make one too by following the steps on Denise's website. The tattoo style design on the front reminds me of Luna Guitars. According to Denise it took forever to make and there was A LOT of leftover cake!
Korean made dreadnought style acoustic guitar. Soundboard is plywood, 20 fret rosewood fingerboard. Tuners are open three-on-a-strip units with white plastic tuner buttons and ferrules. Paddle shaped headstock with gold painted on Hondo II logo. Black bridge pins. Black binding is painted on only. MAnufacture of this guitar probably started somtime after 1974
Series of budget Hondo steel string acoustics first introduced in 1974. Quality of the series II models was a marked improvement on the original models (1968 to 1974).
This pdf file from Make magazine shows you how to make a three string cigar box guitar and matching amplifier.
This is an acoustic guitar, customised by riveting recycled vintage license plates all over it. It can't be played (the strings are aluminium and the bridge is made out of a harmonica), the idea is to hang it on the wall as an artwork. It costs $500, but custom options are available: you can choose the color or the state of the license plates.
The SJ-65 S is a super jumbo shaped acoustic. It has a solid spruce top with flamed maple back, sides and neck. Finish is natural gloss. Neck and body are bound. The fingerboard is rosewood with split block position markers. Scale length is 25.6 inches. Machineheads are gold die-cast units. The SJ 65 S was discontinued in 2002.