Calling all HarrySeven's.

blobb

...  one of them had a drum machine built in!

Here's a carcass very similar. Fresher Straighter Protean Series.

ICBM

Kittyfrisk said:

I'm hearing Fresher, straighter, faster, harder, SCOOTER!!!

Philly_Q

blobb said:

...  one of them had a drum machine built in!

Here's a carcass very similar. Fresher Straighter Protean Series.

Looks like an interesting project.  Although I notice that either the neck is very thin, or the distance between the plane of the headstock and the plane of the fretboard is much greater than it is on a Fender guitar. 

In fact the whole transition from neck to headstock is very different, and sort of elongated.

 

Flanging_Fred

In my search for an El Maya over the last couple of years, someone local had an El Maya strat that looked exactly like this on eBay. That one was hard tail but looked damn near identical to the photos in the OP.  I think it was on sale for £600 and was for sale for months.

Kittyfrisk

Philly_Q said:

blobb said:

...  one of them had a drum machine built in!

Here's a carcass very similar. Fresher Straighter Protean Series.

Looks like an interesting project.  Although I notice that either the neck is very thin, or the distance between the plane of the headstock and the plane of the fretboard is much greater than it is on a Fender guitar. 

In fact the whole transition from neck to headstock is very different, and sort of elongated.

 

Hi @Philly_Q , thanks for the info. Damn, that Fresher Straighter Protean looks very close.
The centre stripe looks to be walnut or similar, not rosewood which mine is, although that isn't a big difference at all.
I have taken a pic of the neck & the elongation/carve doesn't seem as pronounced on mine (to me).
Who in their right mind would paint a lovely wood finish with brown paint   

octatonic

Kittyfrisk said:

By the way, I think you should have a bat signal of some type on the forum   

We tried that with some of the first six iterations- it got messy.

Kittyfrisk

Flanging_Fred said:

In my search for an El Maya over the last couple of years, someone local had an El Maya strat that looked exactly like this on eBay. That one was hard tail but looked damn near identical to the photos in the OP.  I think it was on sale for £600 and was for sale for months.

Hi @Flanging_Fred. Stop looking for Maya/El Maya guitars immediately. They're mine, you hear? All mine! 
I can tell you that they probably aren't the same guitar. I have had this one since around 2011 and I paid much less than half that amount.
It's good that you have seen another one though, as I have not been able to.
This whole 1970's Japan guitar identifying lark is strictly down the rabbit hole stuff 

Kittyfrisk

octatonic said:

Kittyfrisk said:

By the way, I think you should have a bat signal of some type on the forum   

We tried that with some of the first six iterations- it got messy.

So, not just copies to watch out for on here, it's clones too...

Kittyfrisk

blobb said:

...  one of them had a drum machine built in!

Here's a carcass very similar. Fresher Straighter Protean Series.

@blobb Apologies for not thanking you for the Fresher info. I just saw the later merged thread & replied accordingly. 

Flanging_Fred

Kittyfrisk said:

Flanging_Fred said:

In my search for an El Maya over the last couple of years, someone local had an El Maya strat that looked exactly like this on eBay. That one was hard tail but looked damn near identical to the photos in the OP.  I think it was on sale for £600 and was for sale for months.

Hi @Flanging_Fred. Stop looking for Maya/El Maya guitars immediately. They're mine, you hear? All mine! 
I can tell you that they probably aren't the same guitar. I have had this one since around 2011 and I paid much less than half that amount.
It's good that you have seen another one though, as I have not been able to.
This whole 1970's Japan guitar identifying lark is strictly down the rabbit hole stuff 

Haha, you’re not wrong about the rabbit hole.  I finally found what I was after about 6 weeks ago after a long search. The thread is here...  

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/152148/ngd-unusual-old-japanese-content#latest

I think that that will keep me amused for a long while to come.

MrBump

Regardless of what it is, it looks great!

Kittyfrisk

Flanging_Fred said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Flanging_Fred said:

In my search for an El Maya over the last couple of years, someone local had an El Maya strat that looked exactly like this on eBay. That one was hard tail but looked damn near identical to the photos in the OP.  I think it was on sale for £600 and was for sale for months.

Hi @Flanging_Fred. Stop looking for Maya/El Maya guitars immediately. They're mine, you hear? All mine! 
I can tell you that they probably aren't the same guitar. I have had this one since around 2011 and I paid much less than half that amount.
It's good that you have seen another one though, as I have not been able to.
This whole 1970's Japan guitar identifying lark is strictly down the rabbit hole stuff 

Haha, you’re not wrong about the rabbit hole.  I finally found what I was after about 6 weeks ago after a long search. The thread is here...  

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/152148/ngd-unusual-old-japanese-content#latest

I think that that will keep me amused for a long while to come.

Ah yes, the EM1300 & EM 1500's are properly great guitars.
The problem for me is that I missed the boat on snapping these up when they might have been within my self imposed fiscal prudence regime.
I haven't been able to track down an original EM bridge, but I haven't given up either.
I'll probably post some more Maya's in @TheMarlin 's thread 'Cheap, but not nasty '
Congratulations on being able to satisfactorily scratch your Maya itch