1997 Tacoma Papoose P-1 w/hard case and end pin jack
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OVERVIEW:
TACOMA PAPOOSE P-1
An extremely portable and unique A-tuned guitar.
The Tacoma P1 Papoose acoustic guitar boasts superior, all solid-wood craftsmanship and design in a travel-size instrument. Tuned to A, it acts like a normal guitar capoed at the 5th fret. Its perfect for fattening up standard songs with rich high-end harmonics and mandolin-type sounds with its distinctive, chiming tone. It comes with a solid Western cedar top with voiced-support bracing system, solid mahogany back and sides, and bolt-on, one-piece mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard. It has a Graphtech TUSQ nut, compensated saddle, Tone Shaped rosewood bridge, chrome tuners, and a light natural satin finish.
FEATURES:
Overview:
A Luthier's rule of thumb is that low, wide braces are best for bass frequencies, and tall, thin braces are best for treble frequencies. We've applied this thinking to our bridge and it works.
Our solid Maple bridge plate is asymmetrical, and placed diagonally to enhance the dispersion patterns of our bridge design. Our matched bridge and bridge plate configuration balances the bass and treble remarkably, and produces sustain unmatched by any other system.
There are no sharp corners on the front edge of the bridge to concentrate stress on the top. Less stress - Longer life
The sound hole is placed in a low vibration area. This way the hole does not hinder sound, and the area that would normally be just a vent in the top is now contributing to the tone and volume of the guitar.
The Tacoma Guitars Papoose bracing is carefully designed to provide rich, wonderful tone at volumes equal to any stringed instrument, regardless of its size.
Tacoma Guitars braces are triangular in shape because they have equal strength to a rounded brace with less mass. Lower mass allows the top to vibrate more freely, and increases the guitars response.
The Bass side and Treble side primary support braces differ in length and angle to optimize the top's resonant frequency. This allows precise and very consistent balance from note to note.
This guitar does show evidence of being played (minor dings, pick scratches, etc), but not abused. It is an early model judging from the pinless bridge. Later models featured regular pinned bridges. Due to the unique A bracing, there is some expected sagging on the top, but no cracks, separations or repairs.
This features a rare screw in end pin jack and John Pearse stick-on under bridge pick up. It came to me like this, with the pickup wire cut from the end pin. I have no soldering skills, so cannot attest to whether the pickup works or not. What you see is what you get. There are many other under bridge pickups available, but the real find is the original screw in end pin jack. Please ask questions or request other pictures. This instrument will be carefully packed, insured and shipped FedEx Ground. CONUS only.
OVERVIEW:
TACOMA PAPOOSE P-1
An extremely portable and unique A-tuned guitar.
The Tacoma P1 Papoose acoustic guitar boasts superior, all solid-wood craftsmanship and design in a travel-size instrument. Tuned to A, it acts like a normal guitar capoed at the 5th fret. Its perfect for fattening up standard songs with rich high-end harmonics and mandolin-type sounds with its distinctive, chiming tone. It comes with a solid Western cedar top with voiced-support bracing system, solid mahogany back and sides, and bolt-on, one-piece mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard. It has a Graphtech TUSQ nut, compensated saddle, Tone Shaped rosewood bridge, chrome tuners, and a light natural satin finish.
FEATURES:
- Single cutaway small Wing-series acoustic
- Offset paisley sound hole
- Tuned from A to A
- Solid Western cedar top
- Solid mahogany back and sides
- Bolt-on one-piece mahogany neck
- Rosewood fingerboard
- 19.1" scale
- 21 frets
- Mahogany peghead with branded Tacoma logo
- Graphtech TUSQ nut
- Compensated saddle
- Tone Shaped bridge
- Voiced-support bracing system
- Rosewood bridge
- Chrome tuners
- 1.875" nut width
- Light natural satin finish
- "StringEZ" pinless string slots for easy string changes
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Scratch proof satin finish clear Lexan pick guard
- Medium jumbo frets
Overview:
A Luthier's rule of thumb is that low, wide braces are best for bass frequencies, and tall, thin braces are best for treble frequencies. We've applied this thinking to our bridge and it works.
Our solid Maple bridge plate is asymmetrical, and placed diagonally to enhance the dispersion patterns of our bridge design. Our matched bridge and bridge plate configuration balances the bass and treble remarkably, and produces sustain unmatched by any other system.
There are no sharp corners on the front edge of the bridge to concentrate stress on the top. Less stress - Longer life
The sound hole is placed in a low vibration area. This way the hole does not hinder sound, and the area that would normally be just a vent in the top is now contributing to the tone and volume of the guitar.
The Tacoma Guitars Papoose bracing is carefully designed to provide rich, wonderful tone at volumes equal to any stringed instrument, regardless of its size.
Tacoma Guitars braces are triangular in shape because they have equal strength to a rounded brace with less mass. Lower mass allows the top to vibrate more freely, and increases the guitars response.
The Bass side and Treble side primary support braces differ in length and angle to optimize the top's resonant frequency. This allows precise and very consistent balance from note to note.
This guitar does show evidence of being played (minor dings, pick scratches, etc), but not abused. It is an early model judging from the pinless bridge. Later models featured regular pinned bridges. Due to the unique A bracing, there is some expected sagging on the top, but no cracks, separations or repairs.
This features a rare screw in end pin jack and John Pearse stick-on under bridge pick up. It came to me like this, with the pickup wire cut from the end pin. I have no soldering skills, so cannot attest to whether the pickup works or not. What you see is what you get. There are many other under bridge pickups available, but the real find is the original screw in end pin jack. Please ask questions or request other pictures. This instrument will be carefully packed, insured and shipped FedEx Ground. CONUS only.
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