Author Topic: Name that guitar (Read 806 times)

jalevinemd · « **Reply #15 on:** September 30, 2004, 07:07:06 PM »

Next to my custom Alembic, this is the most incredible guitar I've ever played. Tim and Pat O'Donnell, who continue Stephen Cripe's legacy, do some fantastic work. Here are a couple pictures of my own Tiger and Alembic inspired Resurrection Lightning Bolt. It's much heavier than Bear, weighing in at around 10 pounds. The top is a variety of rosewood, very similar in color to morado. The body is a five layer sandwich of rosewood, maple and mahogony and the neck is a nine piece sandwich of the same. The fretboard is the very same opium bed rosewood that the top and back of Jerry's Lightning Bolt were constructed of. They still had a few pieces leftover. Regards, Jonathan

echo008 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 30, 2004, 07:15:12 PM »

WOW.... Im sure the pictures dont really do it justice, but that really looks outstanding!!!!

Im still partial to alembics curves but again very very nice!!
did I read that they use enviormentally friendly woods only?
- Tom

jalevinemd · « **Reply #17 on:** September 30, 2004, 07:57:03 PM »

Yeah,

Pictures never do these poor things justice. I hear you about the Alembic curves...you can't beat 'em. When Bear is sitting next to my Bolt, you can really appreciate the wonderful lines that many Alembics have. The feel I was going for was pure Jerry when I ordered the Bolt...a brass ornamented piece of musical folk art...and that's what I got. With the Alembic, I was after pure beauty of form and function, and that's precisely what they delivered. I love them both for different reasons. And, I'll tell you, it's hard to beat the punch and sustain of a 10 pound neck through guitar!!!

On the subject of inlays. What many may not know is that the headstock inlay on the Cripe and Resurrection guitars is an exploding firecracker. That was Stephen Cripe's passion and ultimately the way he died.

Jonathan

lbpesq · « **Reply #18 on:** September 30, 2004, 08:16:44 PM »

Jonathan:

I noticed one difference between Jerry's Bolt and your Big Bear (as opposed to your new Alembic Little Bear). Your's has Alembic-style fret markers as opposed to Bolt's standard dots. Did you order it this way, or has Resurrection adopted the style.

Bill, the guitar one

jalevinemd · « **Reply #19 on:** September 30, 2004, 08:28:24 PM »

Bill,

Funny you should ask that. I ordered it that way from Resurrection. I figured if you're going to design a fancy instrument, it'd be a shame to litter the fretboard with little dots! I was later informed that those oval MOP fret markers are, in fact, an Alembic copyright. Technically, they weren't allowed to be used, but neither Tim nor myself knew that at the time. Susan was really cool about it when she saw the pictures I sent her. I was a little embarassed, to say the least. The moral of the story...if you're having a custom instrument built by someone else, choose your second favorite shape for the fret markers.

Jonathan

echo008 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 30, 2004, 08:37:58 PM »

I read the about the way Mr. Cripe passed and I have to say thats more than a little eerie having an exploding firecracker for the headstock logo .....ahhh the irony.
I took a better look at the resurrection site, they have some nice models I especially like the fishy hollowbody.
I noticed you do not have the effects loop, I suppose you also can custom pick PUP's etc with resurrection.
- Tom

poor_nigel · « **Reply #21 on:** September 30, 2004, 09:09:55 PM »

If you are going to go, dying in an explosion is probably one of the least painful ways. I hope I go quick like that when my time comes.

What an outstanding guitar! I just love the brass work and the woods are certainly special. I like all aspects of the guitar, except that it ain?t a bass, but the brass is really special to me. Maybe Susan can 'get em back' if I order a custom Alembic bass with similar brass work on it. Naw! It would cover the neck lams, which is sacrilege to me. Besides, I know she has too much integrity.

Last word on the subject ? Wow, what a great guitar!

kmh364 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 01, 2004, 02:19:15 PM »

If you ck that dozin.com thread that echo008 posted, it shows an unfinished Cripe guitar that is referred to in the site as Stealy...is this the unfinished guitar Jerry never got before his untimely death, or was this Bolt II? There is no other explanation of text other than a full anterior and posterior shot of the unfinished guitar and the title STEALY.

jalevinemd · « **Reply #23 on:** October 01, 2004, 04:15:13 PM »

As I understand it, having spoken to the guys at Resurrection, Jerry's next guitar was called Eagle and it is quite different from his two bolts, Lightning and Top Hat.
Check out this link:

http://www.vintageoneguitars.com/OtherGuitars.html

Jonathan

echo008 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 01, 2004, 04:37:18 PM »

very different indeed I cant beleive its valued at 100k !!!!,
what exactly are they referring to when the say recycled from a 19th century Asian opium bed I mean what is a 19th century opium bed?
- Tom

hollis · « **Reply #25 on:** October 01, 2004, 05:06:10 PM »

I would imagine that it's a berth in an opium den leased to those partaking of the fruit of the Somnifera(sp?)poppy......

David Houck · « **Reply #26 on:** October 01, 2004, 08:41:09 PM »

A quick search suggests that an opium bed is a style of bed frame, apparently typified by multiple slats and curved legs.
http://www.teak-collection.com/pages/product-detail_qt.asp?SP_ID=&SKU=BD411

echo008 · « **Reply #27 on:** October 01, 2004, 08:45:19 PM »

... thanks for taking the time to search...guess Im feeling lazy tonight.
- Tom

David Houck · « **Reply #28 on:** October 01, 2004, 08:51:12 PM »

Well I decided I just had to know. When I first read it, I thought opium bed, flower bed; didn't make any sense to me.

echo008 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 01, 2004, 08:59:45 PM »

thats true.... the words opium bed seem to conjure exotic far away thoughts....not that the wood isint rare... it seems like it is but Im a little disappointed ...not
- Tom