Night Owl

The Maxey Archtops Night Owl is a hand carved, small body,  double cutaway guitar. Night Owl is available in spruce top with maple back and sides or curly maple top, back and sides. Available colors are Night Red or Sunburst. Electronics are gold & black. Every Night Owl features all solid wood selection, parallel bracing, kerfing, mahogany or maple binding, nitro finish, ebony fingerboard, tailpiece and floating bone saddle bridge. It’s 24 fret neck with 25.5” scale is designed to provide a clarity and pop to the notes while positioning the pickups exactly where we want for a balanced mix of high, low and mid while providing a truly sweet and expressive tone. Each Night Owl is equipped with Seymour Duncan ’59 humbuckers in series, parallel and split functions. The wooden volume/tone and switches will be positioned by the bridge and f-hole for easy control of a wide range of tones. 

Hand carved small body archtops are known for their blooming notes. They are rich in acoustic quality, harmonics and responsive to the touch. With hand made instruments, the woods are carefully crafted individually to bring the most out of the particular materials. We are happy to offer a new luthier made option at an affordable price to small body archtop enthusiasts.