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Bertram
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- Kapa Challenger - Cool 1960s Vintage Guitar From One Of America's Lesser Known Manufacturers
guitarz.blogspot.com: As a resident of the United Kingdom I have never actually laid eye on a Kapa guitar "in the flesh" as it were, but through featuring them on this blog I have developed quite a soft spot for this little-known brand. Actually, even...
- Hofner 4577 Thinline
guitarz.blogspot.com This Hofner 4577 - the thinline version of the 477 hollow-body model, introduced in 1967 - has at least two features that make it much desirable: a florentine cutaway and a Hofner tremelo, both things that I love on a semi-hollow....
- 1966 Kapa Minsrel - America's Take On The Vox Teardrop
guitarz.blogspot.com: We've looked at several Kapa guitars before, and this particular Vox-like Kapa Minstrel from 1966 is attracting some furious bidding on eBay with just under nine hours left before the close of the auction at the time of writing....
- Dean Psychobilly "picasso" (actually They Meant Matisse But Hey, They're Just American Guitar Makers!)
guitarz.blogspot.com I'm usually not a fan of custom paint job but sometimes something stands out of the lot, like this Dean Psychobilly Picasso - one of three models of the short lived mid-2000s Psychobilly series. I like how the classic full hollow-body...
- Two Very Different Ovation Breadwinners Currently Listed On Ebay
guitarz.blogspot.com: These two different Ovation Breadwinners currently listed on eBay illustrate quite nicely how the instrument had evolved over the eight years or so during which it was part of the Ovation catalogue of instruments. One of Ovation's...
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Ovation Eclipse 1235-5 semi-hollow wonder
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This excessively cool ES-335 style Ovation Eclipse has an interesting story (it it's a true one). It belongs to the late 1960s Storms series - the Tornado model being the most famous of them - whose bodies were actually made by Höfner in Germany. It seems that once they received a batch of bodies with painting problems, but all they had to refinish them was the Lyrachord they used to mold the round bodies of their acoustic guitars (I have this finish on my Breadwinner, it's great!)
That was a good starting point, add to this Höfner 513B blade pickups, classy chrome hardware, a bizarre pickguard and you have this dream guitar, that doesn't look like a 40-year vintage grandma but something Ellen Ripley could have used to smash a Xenomorph with. This guitar was a very short series, like just a few hundred items around 1970, and if there was fairness in this universe, one of them would be mine...
Bertram
© 2011, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Kapa Challenger - Cool 1960s Vintage Guitar From One Of America's Lesser Known Manufacturers
guitarz.blogspot.com: As a resident of the United Kingdom I have never actually laid eye on a Kapa guitar "in the flesh" as it were, but through featuring them on this blog I have developed quite a soft spot for this little-known brand. Actually, even...
- Hofner 4577 Thinline
guitarz.blogspot.com This Hofner 4577 - the thinline version of the 477 hollow-body model, introduced in 1967 - has at least two features that make it much desirable: a florentine cutaway and a Hofner tremelo, both things that I love on a semi-hollow....
- 1966 Kapa Minsrel - America's Take On The Vox Teardrop
guitarz.blogspot.com: We've looked at several Kapa guitars before, and this particular Vox-like Kapa Minstrel from 1966 is attracting some furious bidding on eBay with just under nine hours left before the close of the auction at the time of writing....
- Dean Psychobilly "picasso" (actually They Meant Matisse But Hey, They're Just American Guitar Makers!)
guitarz.blogspot.com I'm usually not a fan of custom paint job but sometimes something stands out of the lot, like this Dean Psychobilly Picasso - one of three models of the short lived mid-2000s Psychobilly series. I like how the classic full hollow-body...
- Two Very Different Ovation Breadwinners Currently Listed On Ebay
guitarz.blogspot.com: These two different Ovation Breadwinners currently listed on eBay illustrate quite nicely how the instrument had evolved over the eight years or so during which it was part of the Ovation catalogue of instruments. One of Ovation's...