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- 1959 Framus Grand Star 5/125
guitarz.blogspot.com: That is a sexy old lady! You can recognize this 1959 Framus Grand Star at first sight with its Framus trademark chromed pickguard / control plate / pickup holder that is still used on some current models. The...
- 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...
- Mr Spock Jams On Vulcan Electric Harp Accompanied By Hippy Girl Playing A Bicycle Wheel
guitarz.blogspot.com: I guess this is the logical follow-up to the Space 1999 video clip we looked at the other day featuring the Coral Sitar. This clip comes from one of the Star Trek's more comic episodes, The Way To Eden, in which the Startship...
- Musima Lead Star Superstrat
guitarz.blogspot.com Usually when one thinks of GDR electric guitars, what comes to mind are superb and very German hollow-body jazz guitars, or these later through-the-looking-glass designs, both familiar and askew, sometimes radically and wildly...
- Framus 1960's Star Bass In La Area For $500
Most Bill Wyman fans know that he played a Framus Star all through the early and mid-60's. His was a red sunburst with two pickups and the "pointer" knobs but this one still looks fairly similar - especially the long thin easy playing neck. Whittier...
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All of us are looking at the stars
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A Migma Star 61 to be exact. Maybe. It's hard to tell really as every search I've made has revealed a whole range of different Migma guitars claiming to be Star 61s. This one doesn't have the typical Migma tailpiece either. Anyway...
We've all heard or used the expression "a Mickey Mouse guitar", I'm sure. Well, for this seller, his Migma Star 61 has always been his Kater Karlo guitar because it looks like a cartoon (Kater Karlo is the Disney character - Pete - sometime villain and general tough guy). He says the model is rare and, if the paucity of Google searches is anything to go by, he's right. It has a large, thick body, of which he says, "What is the material of the body - no idea, it looks as if he had joined like two halves of bread. Maybe it's made of fiberglass, is certainly very hard. It has a slight Flitteroptik (glitter effect, I guess). You can see on the photos that all the edges of the body are rounded off.
"Contrary to expectations, the guitar is very playable, the pickup works, although only one of the pots seems to function".
The guitar has its own design quirks such as the chunky pickup and the rather haphazard placing of the control panel but it's undoubtedly a Star guitar.
A little research indicates that these were probably not fibre glass but carved wood. There is a seam showing but the joint looks pretty accurate and there's no strip to hide the join like with a Res-O-Glas guitar. Someone once showed me how make a very tight fitting guitar case by making a box to size and then splitting it with a bandsaw lengthways to leave two perfect fitting halves. Maybe this uses a similar approach.
A little more research on http://www.schlaggitarren.de/home.php?text=hersteller&kenn=87%20mfg reveals that "Lothar Junghänel is the inventor of the extravagant "Star Series". They were designed by him and built in Zwickau, and later manufactured under license by Migma.
He celebrated his 82nd birthday on 20/05/2011. His son Hanno Junghänel contacted schlaggitarren and soon they will publish a detailed article on the history of Star & Starlet instruments, and its inventor."
Schlaggitarren also have some nice photos of other Star models and their designer plus a lot of other interesting guitars, so it's well worth checking out.
David in dull and dismal Barcelona Brrrrrrr! Anyone got a brolley?
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- 1959 Framus Grand Star 5/125
guitarz.blogspot.com: That is a sexy old lady! You can recognize this 1959 Framus Grand Star at first sight with its Framus trademark chromed pickguard / control plate / pickup holder that is still used on some current models. The...
- 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...
- Mr Spock Jams On Vulcan Electric Harp Accompanied By Hippy Girl Playing A Bicycle Wheel
guitarz.blogspot.com: I guess this is the logical follow-up to the Space 1999 video clip we looked at the other day featuring the Coral Sitar. This clip comes from one of the Star Trek's more comic episodes, The Way To Eden, in which the Startship...
- Musima Lead Star Superstrat
guitarz.blogspot.com Usually when one thinks of GDR electric guitars, what comes to mind are superb and very German hollow-body jazz guitars, or these later through-the-looking-glass designs, both familiar and askew, sometimes radically and wildly...
- Framus 1960's Star Bass In La Area For $500
Most Bill Wyman fans know that he played a Framus Star all through the early and mid-60's. His was a red sunburst with two pickups and the "pointer" knobs but this one still looks fairly similar - especially the long thin easy playing neck. Whittier...