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moll custom instruments
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Welcome to Moll Custom Instruments.
Within the pages of this site you will find products that are the result of over 30 years of instrument building, repairing, and restoring. Each model offered continues to go through a process of refinement and evolution, ever striving to become much, much more than the sum of it's parts.
Our craft lies at the intersection of creativity, and a specific application of acoustical physics. An intuitive mixture of art, science, and ingenuity that creates visual, as well as audible music. I believe that an instrument should be built to perform at a superior level acoustically, before any electronics are considered, and we individually build each of our instruments with that objective. My years in the violin business gave me a singularly unique perspective in this area of acoustics, and I apply many violin making techniques to the building of fine archtop guitars....
All of our archtop guitars are finished in nitrocellulose, and are available in a variety of colors. All are X-braced, (parallel available), and feature a dual action truss rod for maximum control over deflection.
We currently offer our guitars in 16", 17", 18", and 19" Concert Grand widths, and 20" widths for our acoustic bass bodies. Venetian cutaways are standard, but may be made in the Florentine style, and we make our Florentine cutaway with an invisibly mitered corner, the same way we miter the corners on our violins and violas.
Standard scale length is 25 1/2" for six and seven string guitars, and 34" for basses, but we can produce the fret coordinates, via computer, for any scale length you desire. Standard nut width is 1 3/4", or an optional 1 11/16" for the smaller hand. Seven string nut is 2 1/16". Fingerboards have 22 frets, unless otherwise specified, 24 frets on basses....
Admittedly, there was a time when I had no desire to get involved with “plywood” guitars...I had spent the bulk of my years in this business carving, and using only solid wood in my work. I was given to the erroneous thought that “plywood” meant “cheap”. I was wrong.
While laminated plates are less expensive, they are also much more stable during climatic changes. They are less likely to swell and recede with changes in temperature and humidity, and less likely to suffer the cracks and structural damage that can sometimes happen in fully carved instruments....
Our in-house designed, and built, fiberglass flight cases are in production now, and have become the standard case for all our Custom instruments including the "John Pizzarelli model". The "Classic" and "Working Man's Hero" models do not include a flight case as part of their selling price.
These new flight cases are built with double reinforced fiberglass shells, #70 density interior foam, and 6 ATA approved TwistLoc latches for added security. all exterior metal fittings are finished using a powder-coat process for resistance to wear and the elements....
Within the pages of this site you will find products that are the result of over 30 years of instrument building, repairing, and restoring. Each model offered continues to go through a process of refinement and evolution, ever striving to become much, much more than the sum of it's parts.
Our craft lies at the intersection of creativity, and a specific application of acoustical physics. An intuitive mixture of art, science, and ingenuity that creates visual, as well as audible music. I believe that an instrument should be built to perform at a superior level acoustically, before any electronics are considered, and we individually build each of our instruments with that objective. My years in the violin business gave me a singularly unique perspective in this area of acoustics, and I apply many violin making techniques to the building of fine archtop guitars....
All of our archtop guitars are finished in nitrocellulose, and are available in a variety of colors. All are X-braced, (parallel available), and feature a dual action truss rod for maximum control over deflection.
We currently offer our guitars in 16", 17", 18", and 19" Concert Grand widths, and 20" widths for our acoustic bass bodies. Venetian cutaways are standard, but may be made in the Florentine style, and we make our Florentine cutaway with an invisibly mitered corner, the same way we miter the corners on our violins and violas.
Standard scale length is 25 1/2" for six and seven string guitars, and 34" for basses, but we can produce the fret coordinates, via computer, for any scale length you desire. Standard nut width is 1 3/4", or an optional 1 11/16" for the smaller hand. Seven string nut is 2 1/16". Fingerboards have 22 frets, unless otherwise specified, 24 frets on basses....
Admittedly, there was a time when I had no desire to get involved with “plywood” guitars...I had spent the bulk of my years in this business carving, and using only solid wood in my work. I was given to the erroneous thought that “plywood” meant “cheap”. I was wrong.
While laminated plates are less expensive, they are also much more stable during climatic changes. They are less likely to swell and recede with changes in temperature and humidity, and less likely to suffer the cracks and structural damage that can sometimes happen in fully carved instruments....
Our in-house designed, and built, fiberglass flight cases are in production now, and have become the standard case for all our Custom instruments including the "John Pizzarelli model". The "Classic" and "Working Man's Hero" models do not include a flight case as part of their selling price.
These new flight cases are built with double reinforced fiberglass shells, #70 density interior foam, and 6 ATA approved TwistLoc latches for added security. all exterior metal fittings are finished using a powder-coat process for resistance to wear and the elements....
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