Members Django Sentenza Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Year: 1960s Manufacturer: Teisco Model: K4-L Color: Sunburst Condition: Oh balls! Description: Hipster as {censored} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Django Sentenza Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Manufacturer: Matsumoku Model: Bison Case: What Year: 1965 Color: Tinted dark brown n {censored} Condition: {censored} yeah Description: Awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jet9 Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 It might just be the fact that it's purple, but change the headstock, make it an H/S/S or H/S configuration, throw on a floyd on there and... :love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Speaking of German carves and Matsumoku, picked up this 1970 Aria model 1720 Mosite short-scale bass copy over the weekend: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Not terribly odd, but it is one of a kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Too few action shots. Here's the Black Keys playing a Guild Thunderbird: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members supafast213 Posted June 5, 2012 Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Ritter Instruments Princess Isabella Baritone I was going to post this one up myself. I'm glad to see Ritter getting into guitars. He's going to give a lot of luthiers a run for their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Rex Machete Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 holy hell yes to that video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Django Sentenza Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 holy hell yes to that video. It's pretty damn awesome all right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Muddslide Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 Cool! The Mighty Link Wray (RIP) played the 6-string version of this model almost exclusively for several years in his later days. I think he called it "The Red Screamer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tool Shedd Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 My 1st guitar, an early 80's Hondo solidbody copy of a Danelectro Longhorn. It was $175 shipped with case, ordered from an ad in the back of Creem or Circus magazine. It came from the factory with a DiMarzio in it for some reason, swapped in a GFS Lipstick-bucker a few years back. Teisco Del Rey ET-460 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Backlund Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 There's two of these in the entire world....how 'oddball' can you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Ultimatum Posted June 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 Awesome stuff Django! Do you own any of those or are they just pictures from Google and such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Django Sentenza Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 Awesome stuff Django! Do you own any of those or are they just pictures from Google and such? I wish I had a Hopf Saturn and that Teisco, but it's just stuff from google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultimatum Posted June 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 Well then, great finds anyways! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Django Sentenza Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 Well then, great finds anyways! Danke. This one's mine, though: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GomezAddams1 Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 Regardless of whether or not those are "frets", if there were some aluminum alloy that wore better, then frets would be made out of it. I'm guessing they chose aluminum as the material for that guitar because of it's weight. Not necessarily. Frets need to be somewhat "soft" so that the tangs will bend and hold, and so that the fret can be bent to match the curve of the fingerboard. A stepped fingerboard would be machined and could be made out of extremely hard aluminum - it requires no bend-ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GomezAddams1 Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 I hate to dredge this up, but as an engineer, I find the stepped aluminum fretboard to be a stroke of manufacturability genius. As a guitar player I am horrified to think about playing it. I think I can explain why the aluminum fretboard does not wear. As I stated in my earlier post, the fingerboard could be made of an extremely hard aluminum alloy. Also, if you visualize what a fretted string would look like on such a fingerboard, the contact area of the string would be huge. Contrast this to a string being fretted against a fret where the contact area is minuscule. Plus the natural stiffness of the string would tend to relieve the pressure at the edge of the step because the string would resist the bend at the step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mel Cooley Posted June 6, 2012 Members Share Posted June 6, 2012 All three are great gigging guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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