Rivolta Duocata anyone?

Sunburst

I must say these look gorgeous to me. I hear good things about Rivoltas in general and love the design of the thinline (less so the junior). 

https://www.rivoltaguitars.com/products/duocata

chrisj1602

Yeah. I like the look of that.

Kittyfrisk

Nice but the back of the headstock is suffering from bumf inflation.
Similar to buying a pair of underpants in your size, then finding you can't actually wear them because of the miles of polyester 'information' labels stuck in there  X(

RichAC

Kittyfrisk said:

Nice but the back of the headstock is suffering from bumf inflation.
Similar to buying a pair of underpants in your size, then finding you can't actually wear them because of the miles of polyester 'information' labels stuck in there  X(

I think you might be using your guitars wrong. 

hessodreamy

As someone who lusted after the similar fano Models, I’m very interested. Even more if they released more configurations that the tele/p90 and single p90. 

I have a Rivolta combinata and can attest to the quality, but I’m considering a tele instead. So this might be the way to go for me. 

Kittyfrisk

RichAC said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Nice but the back of the headstock is suffering from bumf inflation.
Similar to buying a pair of underpants in your size, then finding you can't actually wear them because of the miles of polyester 'information' labels stuck in there  X(

I think you might be using your guitars wrong. 

Aah, that makes it less cluttered & ugly?
The front is great 

TheMarlin

I’m a big fan or Rivoltas, looking forward to seeing one of these in the flesh 

duotone

Looks really good, the body shape reminds me of Gretsch.

grungebob

Yeah Rivoltas are really well put together guitars the Combinata I had was excellent. 

StefB

duotone said:

Looks really good, the body shape reminds me of Gretsch.

Reminds me of Frank Brothers guitars. 

hessodreamy

Actually I've just checked out the demos instead of just looking at it and I'm not keen on the scooped, jangly middle position. As a middle position guy I don't think this guitar's for me.

Teyeplayer

Think it looks great. The whole range have so far. Dennis Fano has a great eye for design and has done well ensuring this Novo/fano-lite brand maintains its own identity. 

chrisj1602

hessodreamy said:

Actually I've just checked out the demos instead of just looking at it and I'm not keen on the scooped, jangly middle position. As a middle position guy I don't think this guitar's for me.

If that was the only deal breaker it wouldn’t be hard to swap the pickups…

hessodreamy

chrisj1602 said:

hessodreamy said:

I'm not keen on the scooped, jangly middle position. 

If that was the only deal breaker it wouldn’t be hard to swap the pickups…

True, but then it’s a bit of shot in the dark what the result will be. The combinata (2 p90s) middle position is the same so maybe I just don’t like any p90 middle position. 

I’d like to see a gold foil neck pickup like the fanos do. That would be cool.