What strikes me most about this particular guitar is the unusual angular metal pickguard - a particularly chunky affair - which also houses the wiring and control pots which are mounted sideways on along the bottom edge of the guard. It's a beautifully idiosyncratic design with an almost DIY feel to it, reminscent of Italian Wandre guitars.
G L Wilson
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best electronics housing ever!
ReplyDeleteKGB operatives called this the Spy Model as the housing doubled as a discrete stash for microfiche, miniature camera [lipstick] and various monitoring devices. Those knobs do more than you'll ever know!
DeleteThe bridge is a bit of genius in itself. If you look closely, four sep. grooves were cut perpendicular so the setup man could, somehwhat, adjust intonation. Clever! Ghengis may be right, former owners may have re-routed the strings for dual trem action. At the price of stainless you could scrap it and break even.
Sweet. 1930's traditional guitar building colliding with eastern block 70's space age design. Love the Tremolo too but looking at other pics online I think the strings are suppose to go in from the front and wrapover the top. if you look at the other pics on the listing you can see marks where the strings have been. Also to my eye it looks like you would only pull it. Does any one know?
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