BILLIE

The perfect guitar 16′ jazz

Billie is the emblematic model of our workshop, crafted since the very beginning of our story.

It truly reflects our savoir-faire and represents the essence of the 16-inch jazz archtop guitar.

Hand-carved from the finest spruce from the French Jura and beautiful flamed maple, Billie delivers remarkable depth and tonal richness.

Its solid carved top and back, precisely graduated, create a velvety sound, woody, warm, and round — the quintessential voice of a jazz guitar.

Its design is unique and elegant: heart-shaped soundholes, a sculpted wooden tailpiece, an ebony fingerboard with original inlays, and a pickguard available in wood or resin with gold leaf. The headstock proudly features our original logo in Polynesian mother-of-pearl.

Billie can be equipped with either a built-in table-mounted pickup with a sculpted wooden ring, or a floating pickup at the end of the fingerboard.

Multiple bindings enhance the instrument, while its subtle "rustic" finish evokes the polish of vintage instruments.

Lightweight, elegant, and highly comfortable, Billie is an absolute joy to play — equally loved by jazz aficionados and professional performers.

Discover also the Carmen model, embodying the timeless elegance of traditional archtops.

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Soundboard: massive spruce.

  • Bracing: X in spruce.

  • Back: massive maple.

  • Rims: maple, 75 mm.

  • Neck: maple.

  • Fingerboard: ebony or rosewood. 12″ radius.

  • Scale: 635 mm (25') with 21 frets.

  • Headstock: double rosewood or ebony veneer.

  • Signature: original Sabolovic logo.

  • Nut : bone 44mm.

  • Bindings: multiple.

  • Pickguard: floating in rosewood, ebony or plexiglass.

  • Bridge: massive and ajustable, in rosewood or ebony.

  • Tailpiece: carved in walnut or ebony.

  • Tuning machine: Schaller.

  • Pickup: Jazz Benedetti with Vol & Tone.

  • Finish: antique, honey, blond. Natural or sunburst in option.

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  • Sabolovic Billie archtop guitar is the perfect archtop jazz guitar in our 16′ range.
  • Sabolovic Billie archtop guitar is the perfect jazz guitar in our 16′ range.

L'excellent Sidney Rodrigues, Ambassadeur de notre modèle Billie.