Luke Duke
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Our local forumite Frank Falbo is really doing things up right with his new series of guitars. A few months ago I started collaborating with Frank on an all mahogany hollowbody. Most of you guys know I'm pretty traditional in a lot of ways so my guitars was going to not only be an all mahogany body, but it would have a 1-piece mahogany, a rosewood fingerboard, and single ply binding. In a lot of ways I wanted it reminiscent of an old 335 or 345.
Frank talked to me about how lively I wanted the guitar and how worried I was about feedback because that would determine how he tuned the Intension Bridge. Being no stranger to hollowbody guitars and feedback I told him I wanted the guitar as lively as possible. We talked color and being a traditional kind of guy I told Frank I wanted something classic looking between Fender Custom Color or Gibson Classic colors. We ended up going with a faded or washed cherry that picks up a lot of brown on an all mahogany guitar. Being a Big Back to the Future fan I told Frank it needed to look "Marty McFly approved". He delivered, it has a real nice "old" look to it.
I met up with Frank at the Dallas guitar show last weekend and finally picked it up and it did NOT disappoint! The guitar is light, loud, and lively. It has the Fluence Classic Model pickups and the lithium ion battery pack. The voices are all very use-able but I gravitate toward PAF sounds. When I have spent more time wood-shedding with it I'll give you guysa more detailed analysis.
Being a new/modified version of the original hollowbody design I told Frank I was "ok with him pimping it" so you can hear it here on March 16th and 24th when Frank took it to be featured on the Dan Boul Lunch show.
And.....THE PICS!
Frank's Graceful Headstock
The "Oh so Classy" Alpha Logo
The body shot....well most of it. Don't worry I won't quit my day job!
Look Ma, no heel!
Here you can see the guitar is very thin, but explosively loud due to the Intension bridge design
Here is the back plate with the Fluence micro USB charging port for the Lithium Ion Battery
Here I wanted to show a contrast between my Heritage Cherry red top R8 (maple top) and the all mahogany Falbo Hollowbody.
Frank talked to me about how lively I wanted the guitar and how worried I was about feedback because that would determine how he tuned the Intension Bridge. Being no stranger to hollowbody guitars and feedback I told him I wanted the guitar as lively as possible. We talked color and being a traditional kind of guy I told Frank I wanted something classic looking between Fender Custom Color or Gibson Classic colors. We ended up going with a faded or washed cherry that picks up a lot of brown on an all mahogany guitar. Being a Big Back to the Future fan I told Frank it needed to look "Marty McFly approved". He delivered, it has a real nice "old" look to it.
I met up with Frank at the Dallas guitar show last weekend and finally picked it up and it did NOT disappoint! The guitar is light, loud, and lively. It has the Fluence Classic Model pickups and the lithium ion battery pack. The voices are all very use-able but I gravitate toward PAF sounds. When I have spent more time wood-shedding with it I'll give you guysa more detailed analysis.
Being a new/modified version of the original hollowbody design I told Frank I was "ok with him pimping it" so you can hear it here on March 16th and 24th when Frank took it to be featured on the Dan Boul Lunch show.
And.....THE PICS!
Frank's Graceful Headstock
The "Oh so Classy" Alpha Logo
The body shot....well most of it. Don't worry I won't quit my day job!
Look Ma, no heel!
Here you can see the guitar is very thin, but explosively loud due to the Intension bridge design
Here is the back plate with the Fluence micro USB charging port for the Lithium Ion Battery
Here I wanted to show a contrast between my Heritage Cherry red top R8 (maple top) and the all mahogany Falbo Hollowbody.
