Ok then you anoraks.........name my 'avatar' guitar if you can. There, a challenge has been issued!
Russ
Name that guitar!
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Ok Steve, you're close, but no cigar......you need to think more English than that I'm afraid!
As for yours.........? Well, if I was buying a guitar that was that shape (and not a vintage Ibanez) I reckon it would have to be either a Gordon Smith Graduate or GS2.
Mind you, I'm a bit odd like that!
Russ
As for yours.........? Well, if I was buying a guitar that was that shape (and not a vintage Ibanez) I reckon it would have to be either a Gordon Smith Graduate or GS2.
Mind you, I'm a bit odd like that!
Russ
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Ok , You're all a bit too smart!
It's a Shergold Numeteor maple/sycamore neck fitted to a swamp ash strat body. pick-ups are a couple of alnicos and a coil tapped humbucker. Owing to the short scale length the neck is set quite deep into the body. The pick-up configuration is interesting, as I've copied much of the Shergold switching which means I've got about eighteen combinations to play with! The neck pick-up is really interesting. Because of the neck being so inset, the pick-up buts up hard against the heel which gives masses more sustain than you'd get from normal positioning. If you think about it, this is the same as a lot of classic semi-acoustic jazz boxes - they had the pick-up screwed to the neck!
It is a truly outstanding guitar that amazes everyone that plays it - and most agree that the Shergold neck was one of the finest made by any maker.
Ex Shergold partner and neck specialist, Norman Holder confirmed that it was a Nu-Meteor neck, and possibly one of half a dozen factory prototypes from the early eighties. I like to think it would be the kind of guitar Shergold would be making now if they were still around.
Here's a pic;
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102 ... ergold.jpg
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It's a Shergold Numeteor maple/sycamore neck fitted to a swamp ash strat body. pick-ups are a couple of alnicos and a coil tapped humbucker. Owing to the short scale length the neck is set quite deep into the body. The pick-up configuration is interesting, as I've copied much of the Shergold switching which means I've got about eighteen combinations to play with! The neck pick-up is really interesting. Because of the neck being so inset, the pick-up buts up hard against the heel which gives masses more sustain than you'd get from normal positioning. If you think about it, this is the same as a lot of classic semi-acoustic jazz boxes - they had the pick-up screwed to the neck!
It is a truly outstanding guitar that amazes everyone that plays it - and most agree that the Shergold neck was one of the finest made by any maker.
Ex Shergold partner and neck specialist, Norman Holder confirmed that it was a Nu-Meteor neck, and possibly one of half a dozen factory prototypes from the early eighties. I like to think it would be the kind of guitar Shergold would be making now if they were still around.
Here's a pic;
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102 ... ergold.jpg
Russ
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Nope, not a Hamer either
OK I'll put you out of your misery. It's a 1979 Washburn Falcon. The upper middle price model of the Wing series, it was made by Matsumoku, the company also resposible for Aria & Aria Pro II guitars, The also did Vantage & some Epiphone gutars. Matsumokwas producing from early 1970s to 1987
Pictures of the wing series can be found here:
http://www.matsumoku.org/models/washburn/wing/wing.html
The Falcon is an arch toppped solid body guitar with a 5 piece laminated transmit (through body) neck, brass nut & bridge pieces, ebony fingerboard and two high output naked humbckers (said to be DiMarzios) and it weighs a TON!! It is also very badly balanced (neck heavy) so you have to wear a wide leather strap to keep it from rotating on you.
However, the neck is superb and the heavy body gives it incredible sustain.
I've had it from new
Steve
OK I'll put you out of your misery. It's a 1979 Washburn Falcon. The upper middle price model of the Wing series, it was made by Matsumoku, the company also resposible for Aria & Aria Pro II guitars, The also did Vantage & some Epiphone gutars. Matsumokwas producing from early 1970s to 1987
Pictures of the wing series can be found here:
http://www.matsumoku.org/models/washburn/wing/wing.html
The Falcon is an arch toppped solid body guitar with a 5 piece laminated transmit (through body) neck, brass nut & bridge pieces, ebony fingerboard and two high output naked humbckers (said to be DiMarzios) and it weighs a TON!! It is also very badly balanced (neck heavy) so you have to wear a wide leather strap to keep it from rotating on you.
However, the neck is superb and the heavy body gives it incredible sustain.
I've had it from new
Steve
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