{"id":138582,"date":"2023-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=138582"},"modified":"2023-08-10T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:14:55","slug":"john-monteleones-rocket-convertible-archtop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/john-monteleones-rocket-convertible-archtop\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Acoustics: John Monteleone\u2019s Rocket Convertible Is a Standout Archtop from the Blue Guitar Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThis was a very important guitar to me,\u201d luthier John Monteleone said about his stunning Rocket Convertible in an interview with the Archtop Foundation, which now owns this instrument as part of the Blue Guitar Collection: 21 archtop guitars built for the late collector Scott Chinery, whose epic assemblage of over 1,000 guitars was documented in the book The Chinery Collection: 150 Years of American Guitars<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Blue Guitars were inspired as a tribute to luthier Jimmy D\u2019Aquisto, who built Chinery one of his modernist Centura Deluxe guitars using a distinctive blue hue. Chinery gave Monteleone and the other makers two conditions for the commission: the guitars had to be 18 inches wide and use the same stain D\u2019Aquisto used\u2014Mohawk Ultra Penetrating Stain #520-4146. Besides that, the makers were free to follow their muse, and this guitar resulted from Monteleone\u2019s vision and craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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