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Bertram D
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- Plastic Semi-hollow Body Lunacharki Maria Leader
guitarz.blogspot.com When I first saw this semi-hollow Lunacharki Maria Leader (Луначарки Мария Лидер), I was stricken by how much its body looks like plastic - and in a pretty good shape for a 40-year old instrument... Well, it...
- 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...
- Your Guitars: "uncle" Bill Kennedy And His Framus Hollywood Solidbody
guitarz.blogspot.com: Bill writes: Regarding Framus. I was stationed in West Germany in the late 50s and early 60s. Came over with a beautiful Magnatone guitar [pictured right] and sold it to buy a Framus Hollywood solid body. It was an outstanding guitar....
- Klira Jazzmaster-like In Bright Orange Finish
guitarz.blogspot.comNow when you think of cheap guitar copies, the Stratocaster comes first - iconic and easy to build (compared to a Les Paul), but in the 1960s, the Jaguar / Jazzmaster was the most successful and copied design in the alternative electric...
- Vintage Klira In Red Mosaic Finish
guitarz.blogspot.com Nothing exceptional here - just a good old cool vintage Klira in fancy finish, but I take the opportunity to remind some facts. First, about Klira: it was an underrated guitar brand from West-Germany that unfortunately left no online...
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Framus SG with bizarre tremolo
guitarz.blogspot.com
While in Soviet-era East-Germany, guitar companies were developing new instruments for a new society, based on the lutherie tradition of Markneukirchen, with radically new designs and solid technology, capitalist West-Germany was busy copying successful American models, such as this Framus version of a Gibson SG.
Still this guitar has a bit of German experimental spirit with this strange wooden block on its Jaguar-esque tremolo, though I have no idea of its use, having never seen such thing before... Anybody amongst our readers could explain this?
Still this guitar has a bit of German experimental spirit with this strange wooden block on its Jaguar-esque tremolo, though I have no idea of its use, having never seen such thing before... Anybody amongst our readers could explain this?
Bertram D
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Plastic Semi-hollow Body Lunacharki Maria Leader
guitarz.blogspot.com When I first saw this semi-hollow Lunacharki Maria Leader (Луначарки Мария Лидер), I was stricken by how much its body looks like plastic - and in a pretty good shape for a 40-year old instrument... Well, it...
- 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...
- Your Guitars: "uncle" Bill Kennedy And His Framus Hollywood Solidbody
guitarz.blogspot.com: Bill writes: Regarding Framus. I was stationed in West Germany in the late 50s and early 60s. Came over with a beautiful Magnatone guitar [pictured right] and sold it to buy a Framus Hollywood solid body. It was an outstanding guitar....
- Klira Jazzmaster-like In Bright Orange Finish
guitarz.blogspot.comNow when you think of cheap guitar copies, the Stratocaster comes first - iconic and easy to build (compared to a Les Paul), but in the 1960s, the Jaguar / Jazzmaster was the most successful and copied design in the alternative electric...
- Vintage Klira In Red Mosaic Finish
guitarz.blogspot.com Nothing exceptional here - just a good old cool vintage Klira in fancy finish, but I take the opportunity to remind some facts. First, about Klira: it was an underrated guitar brand from West-Germany that unfortunately left no online...