Michael Spalt ResinTop Gate Series Ser#11

[Mark Wein]

http://rebel-guitars.com/preowned-michael-spalt-resintop-gate-series-ser11/

Gate Series

The gate to our new location in Vienna needed replacement. To me it looked like prime guitar-building material. Nice weathered Pine boards-resonant and light-with a wonderfully textured surface! Now, a year after the move, we are finally getting around to making guitars out of it. It will be a limited series of 50 (the boards will yield just about enough wood), commemorating our move and the new start of production after what turned out to be a more than 2-year hiatus.

The standard model guitars have a Mahogany body, a 25 1/2″ scale bolt-on neck (either Maple or Maple/Rosewood), a Lindy Fralin and/or BoneTop pickup combination, a Hipshot through-the-body bridge, Gotoh vintage style tuners and Dunlop Straplocks. This formula proved itself on our successful Totem-X series of guitars and offers a wide range of useful sounds. The use of a standard configuration will allow us to offer these guitars at an attractive price.

Gate Series Standard #11

• Body: Mahogany w/Resin Top
• Neck: Maple
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Scale: 25.5″
• Frets: Med/Wide
• Bridge: Hipshot String-Thru
• Tuners: Gotoh Vintage
• Strap Buttons: Recessed Straplocks
• Pickups: Lindy Fralin Unbucker & SC
• Controls: Volume, Tone, 3-Way Toggle
• Case Included

$2800.00 + Shipping

 

[Coralkong]

Wow, they'll make a guitar out of anything these days.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Not a fan of the resin top concept, but that's a groovy looker right there. Decent specs. I'd play it to see what the RT does though...if I could even discern any difference that I could directly attribute to the top.

 

[Elias Graves]

Not bad.

 

[Coralkong]

Wasn't there a resin guitar out a few years ago that people were raving about?


Perhaps I am misunderstanding what is going on here....

Are there 2 series, the Gate and the Standard?

The idea of old pine boards used for an electric guitar doesn't excite me. Pine isn't really a hard tonewood.
The Standard is listed as having a Mahog body, so that sounds a little better.

Not sure what's going on here.

 

[Tig]

Needs sexy cowgirl leather pick guard.

 

[Chad]

the more I look at it, the more I like it.

 

[baimun]

I like parts of it.... the bridge, the pickups, the aging idea... not a fan of the shape, or that green, or the headstock... and too many screws and shit around the controls.

 

[jp_nyc]

Looks like a Craigslist “custom guitar” disasterpiece.

 

[CBHScott]

I like the overall design; the finish, not so much.

 

[Stratguy]

I understand the concept, but it looks like after being cut, the wood separted/shrank while fully drying. Don't dig that design. It's that artificial relicing thing.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Oh, hell no.

 

[Knox in Box]

Thomann musikhaus had a couple of those. Maybe someday I'll head up there and see if I can test one out.

 

[dougk]

Love it.

Course I'm biased, I love the Spalt's.

 

[Prages]

I actually really like that.

I don't like the price, but I love the look.

 

[el diablo]

I love it!
It's almost a tele, but not quite.
Check out the little face in the upper bout. I would buy it just for that attention to detail.

 

[el diablo]

Wasn't there a resin guitar out a few years ago that people were raving about?


Perhaps I am misunderstanding what is going on here....

Are there 2 series, the Gate and the Standard?

The idea of old pine boards used for an electric guitar doesn't excite me. Pine isn't really a hard tonewood.
The Standard is listed as having a Mahog body, so that sounds a little better.

Not sure what's going on here.

Bill Kirchen aka Hot Rod Lincoln used a pine tele guitar and loved it. Said it had a real distinctive sound.

 

[el diablo]

F*CK! I have GAS!

 

[el diablo]

Bill Kirchen aka Hot Rod Lincoln used a pine tele guitar and loved it. Said it had a real distinctive sound.

And what the hell is that fuzzy donut thing behind the headstock?

 

[DFB]

I like all but the top