Vintage sicily guitar 100 years old!!!

maxmsteen · #1 06-15-2008, 04:41 PM

Would want us pages to describe all the winning beauties and present decorations in this stupendous collection (for connoisseurs he intends) tool, but I will try to introduce better him to you. The guitar (turned and turned liutai in the zone Catania because of the lack of the label to its inside) is of handicraft production catanese and it brings varied details and characteristics componentistiche that brings to affirm that has been built by the teacher OLIVIERI or his student CAPONNETTO, of international fame for the one who is of the field. The tool is about 100 years old!!!! and you/he/she can be noticed him/it by the seasoning of the woods, from the mechanics and from the bridge (apart the total plastic absence). We pass to the description of the componentistica and the woods:

Table in Fir

Bands and Fund in beech tree

Neck in Walnut-tree

The box is bombata and to its edges you/he/she has been inserted a splendid gilded decoration that recalls that around the hole of the harmonic box, closed with a' as many handicraft decoration in cellulosa.Il nut is in bone and also the superior part of the bridge that is composed from an overlap of strips of different woods, useful to give an artistic touch to this last.gilded (even if the time and the usury in past you/he/she has grown weak the effect) and they possess a white edge that recalls the edges of the keyboard that, from that that you/they have told me, they are in bone. The tool has been restored by a known liutaio catanese ALFIO Leone (http://www.musikalia.it/it/azienda.htm), that has been building for about 60 years and it restores tools to rope. The guitar always introduced the unstuck fund and two lesions on the same that, the accurate restauration, succeeded in restoring so much to make her seem some veins of the wood. Gives the age of the tool I don't recommend of usufruirne for a' musical (where he would be able more still usurare) activity, above all because the mechanics of epoch should be replaced since one turns to empty. For any question, explanation or photo you also ask me!!!

You go to this site to see other guitars of the same liutaio, cliccate Stefano Caponnetto to the left of the page....WON'T HAVE ANYMORE' DOUBTS!!!!

http://www.fetishguitars.com/index/sicilia.html

Contact me at:

Belasola_oh@hotmail.it

**GilkyBear** · #2 06-17-2008, 09:49 AM

Moved to correct forum.

Also, per forum rules, you need to state a price.

**jim777** · #3 06-17-2008, 02:57 PM

Locking, as the links go to a store.

maxmsteen · #4 06-17-2008, 05:55 PM

Thanks to jem777 and Gilkybear to have moved the announcement!!!! The price is of 500 Euro and I sends photo to whom is interested.

shogun · #5 06-17-2008, 07:14 PM

trade for boss compressor?

**jim777** · #6 06-17-2008, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxmsteen

Thanks to jem777 and Gilkybear to have moved the announcement!!!! The price is of 500 Euro and I sends photo to whom is interested.

Is this your personal guitar or is it being sold by a store? You ad is far from clear, and your link is to a store...

thanks

nuno · #7 06-18-2008, 05:29 AM

hi guys, i'm gonna ask the guy what's the deal, whether it's a personal or store item. then i'll try to sum it up and translate it better for you

shogun · #8 06-18-2008, 07:40 AM

still offering boss compressor for trade

**jim777** · #9 06-18-2008, 10:29 AM

Thanks Nuno

nuno · #10 06-18-2008, 11:36 AM

ok, the guy sent me some pics and told me that this guitar belonged to his grandfather, so it's a personal item. to sum it up a bit, this seems to be a hand-made guitar, built by a luthier in Catania, Sicilia, Italia, named Caponnetto. it's probably about 100 years old. good seasoned woods, no plastic parts, bone nut and bridge saddle. the top is made of Fir, sides and back in Beech and a Walnut neck. because of its age, this guitar isn't supposed to be a player, but just a collector's item. also, one of the tuning pegs doesn't work.
at some point of its life, this guitar has been restored by another skilled sicilian luthier, as the back was starting to unglue from the sides, in some spots. the restore job went great.

some pics HERE