2006 Jim Triggs San Salvador L-5 Style Archtop Guitar (Pre-owned)
We are excited to be offering for sale this incredible masterpiece by luthier Jim Triggs.
The San Salvador is built in the style of the classic Gibson L-5CES with a 17" Venetian cutaway body and parallel bracing. It features all solid woods throughout, with dramatic curly maple back and sides. The guitar is in superb condition, with all original hardware and case, and the solid ebony fingerboard has elegant Super 400 split block inlays. The voice is clear and even, and the neck profile is a slim gentle "D", sublime in the hand with its nicely radiused fingerboard. An artful blend of traditional design and modern craftsmanship, Triggs' handcrafted guitars are rarely found on the used market, and offer exceptional value to the serious player. If this had Gibson on the headstock, it would be priced at £10k plus.
About Jim Triggs:
Jim Triggs started building instruments over 35 years ago. Prior to working for Gibson in 1986, Triggs, who was a respected mandolin builder in the Midwest and on the West coast, had already built between 130-150 mandolins.
Jim was hired at Gibson to work in their world famous custom shop. His first duties included getting their F-5 mandolins back to their 1920’s specifications. Jim’s other responsibilities at Gibson included supervising the custom shop and running their Nashville artist relations department. During his last tenure at Gibson Jim spent his time overseeing the archtop guitar line. In his six years at Gibson, Jim worked on over 20 art instruments and signed the labels of over 700 guitars and mandolins.
Jim left Gibson in the spring of 1992 to build guitars on his own. Jim’s vast knowledge of various instruments led him on a path to become a “one man custom shop”. He also has a reputation for making guitars for a who’s who of artists in the music industry. Jim’s son Ryan has been working in the shop along side his dad for over 10 years now and this duo continues to create beautiful custom instruments one at a time in their Lawrence, KS shop. Their instruments have been featured in the Smithsonian Institute and Country Music Hall Of Fame, and graced the covers of USA Today, Billboard Magazine, and Country Weekly Magazine. They've also been played on The Today Show, The Travel Channel, TNN, The Grand Ole Opry as well as countless award shows.
Specifications:
- Bookmatched handcarved tape tuned solid spruce top
- Solid highly figured bookmatched flamed maple back and sides
- Figured maple neck with walnut centre stripe
- Ebony fingerboard with split block inlays
- 25 1/2" Scale length
- 1 11/16" Nut width
- 7-ply ivoroid body binding
- Bound f-holes
- Bone nut
- Ebony Bridge
- Bound ebony pickguard
- Gold adjustable finger tailpiece
- Gold Grover Super Rotomatic tuners
- 2 x Humbucking Pickups
- 2 x Vol, 2 X Tone
- 3-Way selector switch
- TKL Hardshell Case
***PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL GUITAR IN STOCK***