Obscure/forgotten American Guitars

rpr

Been back up the loft and came across another old guitar book. I was given it years ago as a collection of loose pages, minus cover- think it was called 'The History of the American Guitar' or similar. No idea of the author.  Several house moves and neglect means that some pages have gone AWOL.however a fair chunk of the book has survived.

 Following my Obscure/forgotten guitars from 82 thread, I thought I'd stick up some of the more unusual offerings as opposed to more pictures of the classics.

The pics are B+W unfortunately

 If anybody wants it for the price of postage, then send me a Pm

Epiphone Prototype

Gibson Fire-Bird 12

BC Rich Seagull

Guild Carved Tops

Gretsch Bikini folding guitar with slot in neck

Hoag Light Guitar- this used infra-red light beams to read the string vibrations, offered six channel (one per string) hexaphonic output with a preamp giving vol/bass/treble controls for each string (!)

Some Mosrites....

Oasis Instruments

Veillette..

DrBob

I actually really like the shape of the body on the Hoag light guitar if nothing else..

Dave_Mc

Wow that epi prototype is very like the yamaha SG and one of the gordon smith models. I like it.

EDIT: \/ LOL

axisus

LOLz at the guy in the first pic. Looks like someone is saying "drop it and your dead .... AND DON'T GET ANY BLOODY FINGERPRINTS ON IT!!!!"

WezV

rpr said:

Hoag Light Guitar- this used infra-red light beams to read the string vibrations, offered six channel (one per string) hexaphonic output with a preamp giving vol/bass/treble controls for each string (!)

the idea is still out there

http://lightwave-systems.com/technology/

koneguitarist

Micro frets, Semi acoustic. http://microfrets.homestead.com/home.html grammar acoustics. http://www.grammerguitar.net/history.html

rpr

koneguitarist said:

Micro frets, Semi acoustic. http://microfrets.homestead.com/home.html grammar acoustics. http://www.grammerguitar.net/history.html

Yeah, Grammer are in it-pretty impressive endorser list-surprised they went bust so soon

Inside front page tells me the books called 'the History and Development of the American Guitar' by Ken Achard.published 1979

Still up for grabs for the price of postage.

More pics

Gibson crest and Les Paul Jumbo

piccies of rickys

Gretsch

Bozo

D'angelico/D'Aquisto

Travis Bean

koneguitarist

What's the cost of postage, I'm interested. O:-)

rpr

koneguitarist said:

What's the cost of postage, I'm interested. O:-)

Well I've gave away a couple of books before- postage tends to be about £2.50-£3 mark. not looking for any kind of profit.  I can get a proper quote on Monday if you wish. 

Wolftone

The only one that grabbed my attention was the first pic of the SG2000 lookylike...Very nice. Nice headstock too.

bertie

some of those picks HAVE to be from the Bells catalogue...............(or at least, ones they used for the catalogue)

(ooh the spell checker wont allow catalogue,  allows uncatalogued tho !!   LOL )