The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43024   Message #2702685
Posted By: Jeri
17-Aug-09 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: Apollo Guitar
Subject: RE: Apollo Guitar
I'm refreshing this 2 and a half year old thread because I just got one of these sweet babies. I think it's the same basic model as Maeve's. Nick was at Jed Marum's house concert at Mary's (S. Portland, ME) and I got to play Maeve's a bit, John MacKenzie's (wasn't quite his then) and look at Kendall's 12-string and remember Rick playing 'Walk Right In' on it at a Getaway, and I played this one.

I wasn't looking for a guitar, but when they feel so right they almost play themselves and you don't want to put them down, I WAS looking. Then Nick told me the price and I absolutely could not believe it. (Mar in the finish--who gives a rat's ass!?) So I said I would like to buy it.

He needed it for a couple gigs, but I met him and his lovely family in Freeport for Chinese food and came home with my prize. Mahogany back and sides, red cedar table, rosewood fretboard, and it's light. He makes them with floating saddles (no slot in the bridge) so you can adjust them for different gauge strings. It has a truss rod, plus it has a screw in the heel to adjust for humidity related tension. It also has the cute little brass ringed malachite button inlay in the peghead--a signature, I believe.

It has a sweet, true, balanced tone, and I LOVE this guitar!