SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

These twin guitars may look almost identical but they are actually four years, ten months apart. One of them is Howard Paul’s personal guitar, S2176HP and the other is a newly built, highly customized copycat. Both based on the 16-B model but with highly flamed European tone woods, flamed maple binding, traditional f-style sound holes, x-bracing, violin style tailpiece, and B-6 pickup.

We started this guitar as a custom-spec model intended for Bob’s Boutique but one very savvy customer with impeccable timing snatched it up before anyone else could have a chance.