Not what you’d usually find at Mighty Fine Guitars, but Southern California luthier George Leach’s 16” archtop is just so fine, I couldn’t resist giving it a shot. Gorgeous thing. Beautifully built. Plays great.

• all hand-carved

• top: Sitka spruce

• b&s: maple

• neck: 3-piece maple, core piece birdseye, w/double-action truss rod and carbon fiber reinforcemenst

• Bridge, saddle & tailpiece: Macassar ebony

• trim: East Indian rosewood

• fingerboard: bound

• scale 24.9”

• nut width: 1-3/4”

• inlays: MOP & paua abalone

• tuners: Gotoh 510s w/gold buttons

• pickup: Kent Armstrong