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This is a one-of-a-kind dreadnought-sized cutaway guitar with Honduran Rosewood back & sides, made by Rob Bustos of Paragon Guitars in Vancouver, B.C. It's amazingly well-balanced with ample gutsy midrange, and the Honduran Rosewood gives it a deep solid bass. I've gigged with this guitar for the last year and a half, so it's well played in and is starting to mature in tone. Reluctantly, I've decided to part with it... (6/21/08)

The guitar is in excellent condition. It does have a few minor dings in the body near the neck.

The guitar was recently re-setup by my local Martin-certified luthier.

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Specifications:

Price: $4500

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The Rane PE-17 is the big brother to the PE-15 parametric equalizer. With improved dynamic range and noise performance, the PE-17 is the choice for all critical digital audio studios, sound reinforcement, and broadcast applications. The PE-17 adds separate IN/OUT Gain controls, 100% overlapping bands and sweepable LOW/HIGH cut filters. Individual Bypass switches and LED indicators allow monitoring of each band. XLR/TRS in/out.

Two mono units are available, both in near-new condition and used in smoke-free home studio. Single rackmount space. Both include external power supply and instruction manual. These units sound really nice!

Asking price: $190 each.

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This is a beautiful, custom-made Paragon Mini-Jumbo-sized acoustic guitar. It is made with Brazilian rosewood back and sides, and has an Adirondack (red) spruce top. The sides are extremely dark in color, and the back is strikingly patterned. Not a straight grain by any means, but stunning in appearance. The top is a typical addirondack top with some grain variation but was chosen chiefly for tone.

Handmade in Vancouver, BC by Paragon Guitars, one of those up-and-coming luthiers that still represents a tremendous value for the money and inspires passionate loyalty among its customers (http://www.paragonguitars.com/).

The guitar is in excellent condition. It does have a few minor dings in the top near the lower bout edge, some small areas marred finish on the headstock where strings may have touched during changeout, and one repaired 1.5 " crack in the upper part of the back (but well-repaired and virtually invisible). (I am told the crack was likely brought on by the difference in humidity between Vancouver, BC and the Iowa winterÐ so I am now a believer in religiously humidifying my guitars!). The red spruce top has acquired a very small amount of "belly" that is visible on sighting along it, but this has not affected tone or intonation, and has stabilized over the last 9 months. The lower side on the upper bout close to the heel has some slight rippling to the wood texture.

The guitar was recently re-setup by my local Martin-certified luthier (who also fixed the crack, after consulting with the builder Rob Bustos). The sound is deep, crisp and even (to paraphrase St. Wenceslaus), and LOUD, with tonal richness across the whole spectrum. The top is starting to break in (it can take years for red spruce), and it's a joy to play. The 1 13/16 " neck makes it flexible for fingerstyle or flatpicking.

I've owned and loved this guitar for over a year.

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Features: This guitar style is termed by Paragon as "Mini Jumbo", combining a narrow waist with a wide, rounded bass bout. Smaller than a dreadnought, it features a well balanced sound with a broad dynamic range and complex overtones.

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Specifications:

Price: Inquire

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High quality summing bus for mixdown, made by Roll Music . Single rackspace unit, unpowered. Sixteen channel balanced input on rear via two 8-channel DB-12 connectors. Stereo out on XLR (requires preamp). Front panel provides individual switches for L/R/Both/Neither per channel. Excellent condition, mininal wear at the rackmount holes but otherwise very clean. Very capable unit, you supply the preamp flavor.

$600

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This is my hard-driving, dry-as-a-bone, crisp Collings dreadnaught, purchased new in 1999. It's a wonderful guitar for bluegrass and any flatpicking style.

Made in Austin, Texas by Bill Collings & Company

The guitar is in excellent condition. It does have a few minor dings in the body near the neck, and also on the bottom near the endopin.

The guitar was recently re-setup by my local Martin-certified luthier.

Check out Collings web site.

Features:

Specifications:

Price: make an offer

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