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- 1966 Mosrite Gospel Mark-i - Model 600
guitarz.blogspot.com When I think Mosrite I think mostly about the iconic double cutaway solid body with a longer lower horn, a slanted neck pickup and a German carve, but though this Gospel semi-hollow is more classic, it still has the special hardware...
- Unidentified Hopf Solid-body
guitarz.blogspot.com You cannot have a full frontal picture of this beautiful Hopf guitar, because the mirror effect of its amazing chrome front plate would show the photographer - that is not the purpose (even if he/she is fully dressed). Hopf was probably...
- Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a
guitarz.blogspot.com This Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a is a quite sober guitar compared to the flamboyant jazz/acoustic guitars this brand offered in the 1950s: no special finish, no German carve nor carved top, no complex binding, regular F-holes... No,...
- Late 1970s Hopf Studio
guitarz.blogspot.com I love this horned little devil Hopf Studio, I always enjoy a SG line with slightly longer and thiner horns, it makes it look feral and elegant at the same time. Like most vintage Hopf solid body guitars, the Studio is poorly documented...
- 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special
guitarz.blogspot.com This guitar is sold on eBay as a genuine 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special (with serial number 74008), and it does like like one - same P90s, pickguard, characteristic yellow finish... But I've never seen such pickguard and stoptail...
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1950s Hopf Special
guitarz.blogspot.com
3 years ago I posted on Guitarz about the Hopf Special, but with a very small picture, and I've been frustrated about it since! Happily I finally found much better photos of this indeed special hollow-body guitar from the 1950s (with a different pickguard though - there were different models).
Eveything is slightly twisted in this guitar, the outline is almost the one of a renaissance guitar, the stoptail looks like it's been cut by Matisse, the F-holes are dolphin shaped, the headstock and the pickguard look like a guan dao blade - the result is very cool, and the craftsmanship enhances it: double binding, ebony fretboard, nacre inlays!
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- 1966 Mosrite Gospel Mark-i - Model 600
guitarz.blogspot.com When I think Mosrite I think mostly about the iconic double cutaway solid body with a longer lower horn, a slanted neck pickup and a German carve, but though this Gospel semi-hollow is more classic, it still has the special hardware...
- Unidentified Hopf Solid-body
guitarz.blogspot.com You cannot have a full frontal picture of this beautiful Hopf guitar, because the mirror effect of its amazing chrome front plate would show the photographer - that is not the purpose (even if he/she is fully dressed). Hopf was probably...
- Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a
guitarz.blogspot.com This Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a is a quite sober guitar compared to the flamboyant jazz/acoustic guitars this brand offered in the 1950s: no special finish, no German carve nor carved top, no complex binding, regular F-holes... No,...
- Late 1970s Hopf Studio
guitarz.blogspot.com I love this horned little devil Hopf Studio, I always enjoy a SG line with slightly longer and thiner horns, it makes it look feral and elegant at the same time. Like most vintage Hopf solid body guitars, the Studio is poorly documented...
- 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special
guitarz.blogspot.com This guitar is sold on eBay as a genuine 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special (with serial number 74008), and it does like like one - same P90s, pickguard, characteristic yellow finish... But I've never seen such pickguard and stoptail...