Philadelphian guitar-maker Bill Comins now has the traditionally styled Chester Avenue archtop guitar. Available in Standard and Deluxe versions, both models feature solid, hand-carved Sitka spruce or Englemann spruce tops and solid hand-carved, figured domestic maple back and sides. The 16 or 17-inch lower bout has parallel or x-bracing and Venetian cutaway. The violin styled floating ebony tailpiece matches the ebony pickguard and ebony bridge. Other good things are; multi-purling; 25-inch scale with a 22-fret ebony fretboard; gold-plated hardware; floating pickup with volume control; a choice of violin sunburst or honey blonde finishes and hard shell case.