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Babicz Spider Guitar
Item Information
Estimated Value $1,488.00
Item Number 115
Item Description
This is the first guitar produced by Babicz, and is one of their most popular models. It won the Guitar World Magazine's prestigious Gold Award and was inducted into the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California. This is an all solid mahogany, six-string guitar with all black finish and, of course, features Babicz patented Lateral String Compression soundboard, Tourque Reducing Split Bridge, and Continually Adjustable Neck. It also features an ebony fretboard and bridge, sealed nickel Grover tuners, 25.5" scale, gloss finish on the back and sides, and high performance satin finish on the top and neck. Also, incorporated is the award winning L.R. Baggs Element Onboard electronics, so you can plug in and play this magnificent guitar amplified! Includes a hard shell case and three year warranty.
Interested bidders may try out this guitar at the legendary Mandolin Brothers, 629 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10310-2576 Tel (718) 981-8585, email mandolin@ix.netcom.com
Showroom hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM Eastern Time
Please stop in and meet our good friend Stan Jay, you will be amazed by this historic New York City institution. Mandolin Brothers is known for the unique blend of vintage and one of a kind instruments along with a vast selection of mandolins, banjos, guitars, dobros, ukuleles and tenor guitars. Many professional musicians frequent the shop and many musicians consider it "Mecca" or a "shrine" They are well known for selling Bela Fleck his banjo and George Harrison a couple of his ukuleles. Other clients have included Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Paul McCartney. Mandolin Brothers is listed on The New York Music Trail -- a map of the famous "Sites of Sound" established by the City of New York and The Host Committee for the Grammy Awards as a destination for visitors.
"The Spider's versatility, durability and sound are mind boggling, especially for a guitar in this price range. Babicz offers numerous different models, some perhaps more conventional looking, but the darkly dashing black Spider is a standout guitar in every respect." ~ Guitar World magazine
Special Instructions
Babicz Guitars USA is a producer of patented performance based, innovative and licensable musical instrument technology, including the Variable Set Neck, Torque Reducing Split Bridge, and the Lateral Compression Soundboard. The company was founded by guitar industry veterans Jeff Babicz Sr. and Jeff Carano in 2003, and maintains their corporate headquarters in Poughkeepsie, New York. The company also has a showroom facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it performs sales/marketing, manufacturing, R&D and fulfillment operations.
Babicz Guitars has received several awards and stellar reviews from the industry’s most respected trade publications. Their innovative guitars are favored by many of the music industry’s most renowned artists, such as Todd Rundgren, Foreigner, The Black Eyed Peas, The Pretenders, Kansas, Adrian Belew, Pat Travers, Porcupine Tree, Orleans, Gregg Allman, Don Dokken, and many others. Their patented features are also licensed by some of the guitar industry’s best known brands, including C.F. Martin and Michael Kelly Guitars.
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