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Bertram
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- Martinez Daytona Series Ds-w
guitarz.blogspot.com: I have very scarce information about this Martinez Daytona DS-W - the brand seems to be the German distribution brand of a Chinese or Korean company, and though they mostly produce the usual copies of the 4 same models...
- Just Look At The Size Of The Case For This Guitar: Pointy 1980s Hondo H-1
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another 1980s offering from Hondo guitars - reviled in some quarters and loved in others. It's a Hondo II H-1 from the 1980s with body styling obviously based on the now legendary Gibson Explorer but with the pointiness...
- The Curse Of The Carved Guitar: Hideous Mockingbird Copy
guitarz.blogspot.com O brothers in guitarhood, let's lament on this new manifestation of the evil that creeps if the dark depths of human's psyche... In spite of the horrid carving job, you all recognized the unforgettable Mockingbird design...
- 1965 Egmond Kansas
guitarz.blogspot.com This 1965 Egmond Kansas is both simple and bizarre, it has its own coherence though one could find it like a collage of contradictory elements... I still cannot figure out if Egmonds were only crap budget guitars or...
- A 1980s Take On The Extravagant Tokai Hummingbird
guitarz.blogspot.comUnfortunately I couldn't find any information about this Tokai, but you can't deny that it looks to the Tokai Gakki Hummingbird like the Yamaha SC looks to its SGV predecessor: a toned down metal-oriented guitar....
Guitar
Samick Greg Bennett E-1
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I just couldn't manage to find any information about this Samick Greg Bennett E-1 - it's quite different to the ordinary designs of the guitar branch of this giant Korean music instruments company, usually inspired by the classics without being mere copies, plus a few metal oriented original models.
There are bits of Eko and Danelectro in the E-1's design - a tribute to the times when budget guitars were more than cheap copies of standards and had cool and creative designs? - but the effort is spoiled by the absurdity of the back cutaway: it's OK to do things just for the look, but a cutaway can be useful in term of ergonomics when in the right place, and really counterproductive when like here it leaves a void where an arm rest is expected....
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Martinez Daytona Series Ds-w
guitarz.blogspot.com: I have very scarce information about this Martinez Daytona DS-W - the brand seems to be the German distribution brand of a Chinese or Korean company, and though they mostly produce the usual copies of the 4 same models...
- Just Look At The Size Of The Case For This Guitar: Pointy 1980s Hondo H-1
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another 1980s offering from Hondo guitars - reviled in some quarters and loved in others. It's a Hondo II H-1 from the 1980s with body styling obviously based on the now legendary Gibson Explorer but with the pointiness...
- The Curse Of The Carved Guitar: Hideous Mockingbird Copy
guitarz.blogspot.com O brothers in guitarhood, let's lament on this new manifestation of the evil that creeps if the dark depths of human's psyche... In spite of the horrid carving job, you all recognized the unforgettable Mockingbird design...
- 1965 Egmond Kansas
guitarz.blogspot.com This 1965 Egmond Kansas is both simple and bizarre, it has its own coherence though one could find it like a collage of contradictory elements... I still cannot figure out if Egmonds were only crap budget guitars or...
- A 1980s Take On The Extravagant Tokai Hummingbird
guitarz.blogspot.comUnfortunately I couldn't find any information about this Tokai, but you can't deny that it looks to the Tokai Gakki Hummingbird like the Yamaha SC looks to its SGV predecessor: a toned down metal-oriented guitar....