Beard guitar for sale

In 1987 Paul Beards first open body E Model set the bar for the stellar tone and responsiveness Beard Guitars is famous for.  With its balance of power and subtlety the E Model is the ultimate workhouse resonator. 

Whether your playing solo or cutting through a crowded mix, the E Model does the job. The E Model features all select solid tone wood construction, snowflake fretboard inlays and curly Maple binding throughout.  Under the hood the E model sports a handspun Beard Legend Cone™ and an original #14 ™ Spider.

E-Model Specs

- Body:  Solid curly maple top, back and sides.  Curly maple neck and binding open body design, arched back.  Amber finish.  Lower bout width: 14 1/4".  Body thickness: 4"

-Scale length:  25 inches

-Fretboard:  Ebony w/ Snowflake inlay. 

-Bone nut

-Ebony/ Maple bridge inserts

-Waverly tuning machines.

-Beard Chrome Tailpiece, Fan Coverplate, Screens

-Schaller strap-lock

-Triple spun™-Legend Cone™ 

-Original #14 ™Spider

-Deluxe Hardshell Case

-Beard Guitars Limited LIfetime Warranty

-Available with Fishman Nashville pickup installed

Martin Vazquez

Posted 16 Oct 2020 3:16 pm

Mike Auldridge 8 string acoustic resonator guitar by Beard Guitars For sale here is a fabulous 8 string resonator guitar; a legend among resonators. Players have compared it to a baby grand piano with respect to it's brilliant, full and balanced tone. Stike a chord and revel in the rich overtones and deep sustain. As described on the Beard Guitars web site: "A huge, warm low end, with a sweet, crystal clear, bell-like high end, being perfectly balanced in between with awesome sustain." So true. Paul Beard is one of the premier resonator luthiers of our time and with this guitar, he has created a brilliant work of art that is as beautiful to the the eye as it is to the ear! Resonator guitars are a special category of acoustic wood instruments in having the vibration of the strings carry through to a thin aluminum disk below the bridge. This facility lends a gilded sonic quality to its sound that is hauntingly redolent. As seen in the sticker picture, it is serial number 8-031, dated 4/19/2006. Paul Beard developed this guitar model in partnership with the legendary musician Mike Auldridge, a pioneer in developing the musical repertoire for resonator guitars and the model MA 8 bears his name. Mike personally tested every guitar of this model made and signed the sticker if it met with his exacting standards. As seen in the sticker picture, this guitar bears that signature. This awe-inspiring guitar has aged well and has been lovingly cared for. I'd rate its condition as "pristine". Its only flaw are a few light scatches in the finish on the bottom of the guitar near the strap knob (see pictures). These can be cleaned up easily - I would prefer Paul Beard do it but have hesitated to ship it to him just for that purpose. Specifications: - Body: High quality Finnish Birch veneer, fully bound, open body design, arched back. Lower bout width: 14 1/4". Body thickness: 4" -Beard Bass Reflex Baffle -Scale length: 25 inches -Fretboard: Ebony w/ Hearts and Flowers inlay. -Bone nut -Ebony/ Maple bridge inserts -Gotoh Mini tuning machines -Original #14™ Spider -Deluxe Hardshell Case Free shipping in CONUS. No sales internationally, sorry. Paypal preferred. Money back guaranteed if this guitar is not just as I have described. <b>Edited to remove the HTML code. No photo was provided.</b>

Instruments & Gear:New Gear

Beard Roundneck Copper Mountain

An innovative resonator guitar with excellent acoustic and amplified tones.

By: Teja Gerken

May 25, 2017

Luthier Paul Beard’s Maryland-based company Beard Guitars builds some of the finest and most coveted resophonic guitars around. Beard’s squareneck dobro-style instruments are played by many of today’s top resophonic guitarists and the company also makes roundneck models that can be played with standard guitar techniques. Beard’s new Copper Mountain line offers both squareneck and roundneck guitars at considerably lower prices than standard Beard models, and we recently had a chance to check out a Roundneck Copper Mountain that included an optional pickup package. (Check back for a Peghead Nation demo of a squareneck model soon.)

The most distinctive and unusual feature of Copper Mountain guitars is their backs and sides, which are made from a composite material instead of wood. The solid black back is shaped like a traditional body, so the composite material doesn’t give it an unfamiliar feel or appearance. More traditional construction elements include the guitar’s laminated Finnish birch top, maple neck, and ebony fingerboard, and the resonator combines Beard’s triple-spun Legend cone and original #14 spider.

The Copper Mountain base models don’t include electronics, but our demo instrument had a dual pickup setup with a Fishman Nashville Series pickup mounted in the bridge and a Lollar Silver Foil magnetic pickup mounted to the top. The two pickups are routed through a Fishman Powerchip onboard preamp powered by a nine-volt battery.

Played acoustically or with amplification, the Roundneck Copper Mountain is a really fun guitar. The guitar’s stock setup makes the action low enough to comfortably fret with the fingers and high enough to play with a slide. The spider-style resonator creates a sound closer to that of a dobro than most roundneck resonator guitars (which often have National-style “biscuit” resonators), and the result is very cool note clarity, a nice midrange punch, and plenty of volume. Plugged in, the guitar offers astonishing tonal variety. While the Fishman bridge pickup essentially delivers a louder version of the acoustic sound, the Lollar adds more of an electric guitar quality, and depending on how the tone controls are set, delivers a warm and fat sound or an assertive bite that will cut through any mix.

Although the Copper Mountain is more affordable than other Beard guitars, it clearly doesn’t compromise on tone, making it a great choice for anyone looking for a versatile resophonic guitar.

SPECS: Roundneck resonator guitar. Laminated Finnish birch top. Composite back and sides. Mahogany neck. 25-inch scale. Beard triple-spun Legend cone and original #14 spider. Fan cover plate. Enclosed chrome tuners. Fishman Nashville Series and Lollar Silver Foil pickups. Fishman Powerchip preamp. $2,450 as shown (base models without electronics start at $1,700). beardguitars.com

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Paolo Lardera and his brand - BlackBeard Guitars (name that directly takes inspiration from Paolo´s long black beard) - constitute one of the most beautiful novelties in handcrafted guitars that the Italian market has seen in the last five years.A novelty that was born in the social media when one day Paolo shared his idea of turning his passion into his day job in a famous social network. This is still alive at Paolo´s Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/paolo.lardera), which is still frequently visited and has turned into a place to exchange jokes and make virtual friends that become real. However, Paolo is a shy modest person, now that his guitars, simple but brilliant at the same time, are admired everywhere, he doesn´t let success go to his head. He doesn´t describe himself as a Luthier, but as someone who builds guitars and a craftsman who has invented himself... Paolo looks at the guitar´s world with great practicality, dispelling myths and calling things by their proper name. It is not a coincidence that he had selected the Telecaster as base model. As he tells us it is a guitar´s prototype: its essential, fundamental and still surprising incarnation. A guitar that Paolo plays masterfully developing different projects. Everything was created with his own hands: bodies, necks, pickups, and even the famous metal pickguards, all of them gathered in a research based on sound and a precise idea of materials and finishes. Paolo is, somewhat the anti-Paul Reed Smith: the shiny varnished contrasts with its roasted finish, the flaming top with pine, polished and shiny metals with iron.Up to his Root Telecaster, guitars made with old poplar boards where knots and cracks are evident. Objects of desire where the aging process was not done by men but by nature itself: time sculptures that turn into sound and which are also beautiful.


SIX STRINGS...


1. GUITARS EXCHANGE: How did you end up becoming, or start out as, a luthier? 
Paolo Lardera: As a kid, I was always very curious about how things worked. I would spend hours disassembling anything I could get my hands on and sometimes managed to put it back together. Deciding to build something from scratch was the natural evolution to my inclination. But, assembling a car, motorbike or camera from scratch requires too much ability so I got into electric guitars.

2. GUITARS EXCHANGE: What inspires you to design and manufacture a new guitar?
Paolo Lardera: I decided to use the Telecaster as base model revising tonewoods, aesthetic and sound. In fact, I only decide the shape of the guitar and later I let myself be guided by the tonewood I find: each type of wood evokes a path, a route I try to find.

3. GUITARS EXCHANGE: Do you look for a given sound for any particular reason?
Paolo Lardera: As I said before, materials often guide you to a special sound. When you build an instrument you may choose direction and then you try to take the helm to maintain it but, you do not always manage to get where you want. I have my own method to evaluate a guitar´s sound. I take a guitar and if after 15 minutes I keep playing, it means that it has a nice sound, regardless of its voice. A guitar´s voice is a combination of sound, feeling and playability: each guitar has a voice and every guitar player is looking for a specific one. When a guitar and a player find each other it means I made a good job.
 
4. GUITARS EXCHANGE: Select one and talk about: soul, jazz, blues, rock, pop…or other.
Paolo Lardera: Blues, everything I know and love about music started there. Soul, jazz, rock are respectively and `simplifying a lot´  the ludic, intellectual and pissed off versions of blues. Let´s leave pop apart.

5. GUITARS EXCHANGE: Are you a jobbing artist or a solitary artisan?
Paolo Lardera: I am a lonely hermit, extremely solitary. Behind BlackBeard there is only one person who does everything ….myself. All the instruments are handmade by me (pickups included) according to my personal taste. Fortunately, more and more people appreciate my stylistic choices. I believe this is due to the fact that whoever wants a handmade instrument is looking for something exceptional, unique, a result of their intuition but also of the artisan´s view. Sometimes, the person who is looking for an instrument like this may have unclear ideas….in that case it is the artisan who interprets and guides the customer…when this happens it is very exciting for me because I will have to do the job. If I have to put a part of me in what I do, I will do it better, right? and in the end the customer will be happy. There is nothing sadder than taking a look at a corner of your home or studio and see a forgotten instrument under a layer of dust. I would like each of my guitars to be played, lived, used. After all they are made for that.

6. GUITARS EXCHANGE: What was the last record or CD you bought? And listened to?
Paolo Lardera: The last one I bought was Three Men by ZZTop because I found it on vinyl. The last one I listened to was The Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd. It is one of those records you put on at the start and then let it play until the end.

...ONE BODY...

7. GUITARS EXCHANGE: Electric or acoustic?
Paolo Lardera: Electric, undoubtedly although, in the end the sound source is always in the wood vibes.

...ONE NECK...

8.  GUITARS EXCHANGE: What is the secret behind your choice of wood?
Paolo Lardera: There is no secret: I believe every piece of wood has its own personality. The ability, or originality if you prefer, is to get out and make the most of each. I also believe that it is important to use “simple” materials where simplicity is understood as easy to find and work with. I have nothing against African padauk nor abalone bindings. They simply aren´t for me.

 ...AND TWO HANDS

9. GUITARS EXCHANGE: Why should we consider luthier-crafted guitars as a viable option to guitars made by the large manufacturers?
Paolo Lardera: Major brands use economies of scale to minimize costs and increase profit margins. Nothing wrong with that, ethically speaking since nowadays you can find good instruments in the lowest price ranges. But it is also true that production is largely industrial, although some of these processes are manual. Manufacturing lead time has to be low and each element must be manufactured on an assembly line. A luthier also has to take profit of his work, but in our case the main element is passion. Ours is not an industry of factories and factory workers but a few craftsmen workshop. In my case only one: myself, sometimes with the help of an external co-worker in some works for which I do not have the right tools. He helps me because he likes what I do, not because it represents a great source of income for him. In the end, I believe that this dedication, love for wood, metals and magnetos pervades the finished instrument. The person who values all these things can feel it when he picks a hand built guitar up.

10. GUITARS EXCHANGE: Who plays your guitars? Who would you like to have play your guitars?
Paolo Lardera: Among the clients of BlackBeard you can find some professionals and many passionate ones…and lately also, collectors. The guitar players or bassists I would like to build and instrument for are dead! I really feel lucky to have this job and I just hope that each guitar or bass I build, make its owner happy. Each time I sell an instrument I feel different emotions: I suffer for the separation, thinking about how many hours I spent working on it but I am very satisfied with every sale since we should not forget that this is my passion but it is also my job. I am pleased by the confidence I have earned, but what encourages me is the fact that I will build a new guitar and start all over again.    



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