[thechat] Guitar ID Question
Luther, Ron
ron.luther at hp.com
Mon Sep 20 16:12:06 CDT 2004
Hi Gang,
Arrrrr! ... Okay - this is reeeeeaalllly starting to bug me.
Went out to a cozy little restaurant in Kemah to meet some friends for
brunch yesterday. The place had a (very nice) live jazz 'band' -- one
old guy on a very very pretty guitar, another old guy with a microphone.
They did a good job ... 'classic' blues numbers ... very nice!
I'm trying to figure out what the guitar is.
{No special reason - it's just bugging me.}
I thought it some kind of new reissue of a vintage Gibson. Maybe a
'custom shop' job.
Here's what I saw:
- Body shape looked like an ES-175. Big jazz archtop hollow body.
- 'Pointy' (Florentine) cutaway.
- One pickup ... silvery humbucker just below the neck.
- 'Floating' pick guard - not resting on the body.
... so far it sounds like a very nice ES-175.
However, it also had:
- New looking 'PRS' style knobs.
- New looking 'fancy' wood finish.
- Multicolored abalone [block] inlays on the neck ... not the old 'solid
white' kind of buggers.
- Floral design multicolored abalone inlays on the headstock.
... okay ... maybe a 'custom shop' 175, right?
But here is the 'trouble maker' ...
* No 'F' holes.
Instead it had what looked like an oval or "D" shaped soundhole.
Looked expensive.
What is it?
Thanks,
RonL.
(No. I don't want one. [I'll bet Nagrom might!] I like the thinner
bodies ... ["She's too fat for me."] ... ;-) I was just guessing that
this was somewhere around an $8,000 guitar this old dude was tearing
the place up with ... and wanted to see how close my guess was.)
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