Rivolta Guitars by Dennis Fano

DougCoda

Exciting news if you like Dennis Fano's guitar designs...in collaboration with Eastwood Custom Shop Dennis has a new line..Rivolta guitars...Delivery is expected in February 2017 ...price is £1099 for the Combinita hardtail model and £1199 for the Combinita Deluxe with Duesenberg Les Trem II 
http://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars-rivolta-c-21_510.html
http://rivolta.andygio.com/
http://imgur.com/a/0xckA

COMBINATA

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The COMBINATA is the evolution of a design which followers of Dennis Fano should be very familiar. The larger and slightly offset body give the COMBINATA a shapely silhouette and more substantial feel. The chambered mahogany body features a German carve top (mahogany on metallics, maple on burst). The 25″ scale maple set-neck sports the comfortably chunky “Rivolta C+” neck profile, with 24 medium jumbo frets and a bound rosewood fingerboard.

The COMBINATA is available in four color choices – Adriatic Blue Metallic, Pomodoro Red Metallic, Toro Black Metallic and Autunno Burst. The Standard model features a compensated wraptail bridge, while the DeluxeTrem model sports a Duesenberg Les Trem II with a roller saddle bridge.

FEATURES

• chambered mahogany body w/ mahogany top
• German carve top
• double bound body
• set maple neck
• bound rosewood fingerboard
• mother-of-pearl block inlays
• bound peghead
• 25” scale – 24 frets

• 12″ fingerboard radius
• 1.687″ nut width
• Rivolta C+ neck profile
• Rivolta “Novanta” P-90 pickups
• nickel hardware
• Kluson style tuners
• compensated vintage wrapover bridge
• white plexi pickguard/gold plexi on burst finish
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Basher

Interesting. A bit disappointed that some of those pictures appear to be photoshopped (the blue stoptail looks real) but the trem looks pasted on the other blue one and the bursts are clearly mockups. 

Great to see Denis' designs getting a wider exposure but it might be worth mentioning that, in some cases, these are not photos of actual guitars.

Whitecat

I read an article recently with Mike whatshisname from Eastwood where he said part of their strategy was going to be to team up with boutique builders to do far-east made instruments to their designs. I had a sneaky feeling this would be one of the first of those collaborations based on some Facebook rumblings from Dennis.

Eastwood are a bit better at design and doing interesting things than they are at factory consistency, but that said it's interesting nonetheless. If a shop takes these in and is willing to set them up and do a second round of QC then they should be a winner. A bit of a shot across the bow at Fano Standards too methinks...

DougCoda

Basher said:

Interesting. A bit disappointed that some of those pictures appear to be photoshopped (the blue stoptail looks real) but the trem looks pasted on the other blue one and the bursts are clearly mockups. 

Great to see Denis' designs getting a wider exposure but it might be worth mentioning that, in some cases, these are not photos of actual guitars.

There have only been a couple of prototypes made so far..hence the Photoshop trem..we should have a prototype at some point in the near future for people to try

SteveRobinson

Basher said:

Interesting. A bit disappointed that some of those pictures appear to be photoshopped (the blue stoptail looks real) but the trem looks pasted on the other blue one and the bursts are clearly mockups. 

Great to see Denis' designs getting a wider exposure but it might be worth mentioning that, in some cases, these are not photos of actual guitars.

Maybe for £160 you just get the PSD?

dindude

A lot to like here, the chamber 'hog with fat-ish maple neck and P90's is a fairly ideal spec for me.

The true test for me of whether they can transcend every Chinese guitar I've ever played is if it is not over-finished. Nothing against a poly urethane finish at all (if that's what it is?) when they are don't well (I.e. thin and not over chintzy), I look forward to seeing one in the flesh.

Strangefan

Ew they nasty! 

earwighoney

dindude said:

A lot to like here, the chamber 'hog with fat-ish maple neck and P90's is a fairly ideal spec for me.

Fairly sure it will be a Korean built guitar, if it is a Eastwood guitar.  

hoops

Rivolting Guitars

Bucket

I like those a lot.

Very pleased to see 24 frets - I wish more "vintage" style designs had that.

lasermonkey

That Rickenbacker Combo shape is really popular these days. I can only guess from the lack of litigation that Rickenbacker never protected that design.

Neil

I don't think Rivolta is a particularly apposite choice of names personally but the makers obviously think so.

timmysoft

disgusting, hipster, revolting. 

 if you're going to photoshop something at least make it look nice, those guitars just look horrible. I also don't like Fanos.

Whitecat

It's Italian for "revolt." So no jokes are actually really possible... although they'll be made anyway I'm sure...

monquixote

hoops said:

Rivolting Guitars

Yeah that's the first thing that sprang to mind.

Corvus

Crikey. I'm sure their mother loves them but they look like they're copped from the Gretsch Astro Jet, one of Gretsch's less good ideas from the Baldwin era pit of desperation.

http://images.equipboard.com/uploads/item/image/27649/1964-gretsch-astro-jet-xl.jpg?v=1463171056

meltedbuzzbox

I think they look alright and I applaud someone trying to do something new in an industry that is stuck in the 50s/60s

ok it is a heavily borrow design but at least its not another strat/tele/les paul with a different headstock

UnclePsychosis

@Corvus ;

It's funny how taste works, I don't like like those fanos at all but the Astro Jet is cool as a very cool thing indeed. 

Corvus

Indeed, it's all good, each to his own and all that, I like the bottom half but the top humpy thing looks all wrong to me though I get it's an intended cartoonish Jetsons kind of vibe.

lasermonkey

Here's a pic of the Rickenbacker Combo 800 which I think is where the inspiration came from:


Unless it was the Hannah Montana guitar!


:-)

fretfinder

meltedbuzzbox said:

I think they look alright and I applaud someone trying to do something new in an industry that is stuck in the 50s/60s

ok it is a heavily borrow design but at least its not another strat/tele/les paul with a different headstock

Or to put it another way, why build a 50s-based design that will sell, when you can build an ugly mutha and watch it sit on the shelf forever...