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  • robgilmorobgilmo Frets: 3359
    Canoe paddles?
    A Deuce , a Tele and a cup of tea.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    edited August 2018
    robgilmo said:
    Canoe paddles?
     Clogs.

    @HarrySeven Please could you provide some idea of the fingerboard widths and neck profiles of those Egmonds? How many positions are there on rotary pickup selector on the instrument on the left? If more than three, what are they?

    Ta.

    Paging @vale ;;

    Be seeing you.
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  • robgilmorobgilmo Frets: 3359
    What are those things on the top of the headstocks? Are they just emblems or do they serve some other purpose?
    A Deuce , a Tele and a cup of tea.
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  • TenebrousTenebrous Frets: 1332
    robgilmo said:
    What are those things on the top of the headstocks? Are they just emblems or do they serve some other purpose?
    They look like clip on tuners for Goths.
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  • robgilmorobgilmo Frets: 3359
    That's what I thought, cool as chips!
    A Deuce , a Tele and a cup of tea.
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    Oh god. No. Don’t. I’ll end up wanting one.

    How much? How’s £2 3s 6d or 20 green shield stamps?
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  • ClashmanClashman Frets: 175
    It's an optical illusion..it's a pair of earings.
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  • gringopiggringopig Frets: 2648
    edited July 2020
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 16546
    I like them

    the hofner violin bass is a more graceful design, but I like the quirkier stuff
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    gringopig said:
    One is an odd thing to have. Two is freakish!
    This is a H7 thread. Having just two is freakish.
    Be seeing you.
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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 8017


    HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 8017
    gringopig said:
    One is an odd thing to have. Two is freakish!
    This is a H7 thread. Having just two is freakish.
    You get a Wiz for that entirely accurate observation. ;)


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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 8017


    @HarrySeven Please could you provide some idea of the fingerboard widths and neck profiles of those Egmonds?

    Ta.


    They’re Ekos, Sir! :)

    Now, re. your question...imagine a cricket stump.

    Run an imaginary plane down its imaginary length, so you have a flat face (half-moon cross-section).

    Imagine what that might feel like when you grip it.

    Voila. That’s the neck.


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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579
    I keep coming back and looking at these.

    Make it stop. Make it damn well stop...

    @HarrySeven you can go off a person ;)
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24579


    @HarrySeven Please could you provide some idea of the fingerboard widths and neck profiles of those Egmonds?

    Ta.


    They’re Ekos, Sir! :)

    Now, re. your question...imagine a cricket stump.

    Run an imaginary plane down its imaginary length, so you have a flat face (half-moon cross-section).

    Imagine what that might feel like when you grip it.

    Voila. That’s the neck.

    You have described @vale’s ultimate neck - short scale super skinny and weeny...

    ;)
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 5112
    Which one did he he use on the Frog Chorus? Must be worth a fortune  ;)
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  • valevale Frets: 1052
    edited August 2018
    robgilmo said:
    Canoe paddles?
    by coincidence, the current generation of japanese beatnik hipster kids always refer to the vox phantoms and copies as 'canoe paddle guitars'.


    Paging @vale ;;;;;;

    thanks for the heads up funkfingers.

    they are curiously idiosyncratic copies. not as pretty to my tastes (each to their own) as the hofners, more muscular and guitarish in proportion (which others may actually prefer). hofners are pretty tiny, which is why i like them (and phantoms).

    interesting (reading the links Harry provided) to read that pigini (like hofner) were another european classical stringed instrument maker with a long history, who rather than adapt their methods to the american henry ford solid-body production line trend, decided to stick with the classical methods their staff were already trained for, to produce electrics for the new beat boom.

    i get the feeling these 'classical makers gone pop' were just dipping a toe in the electric guitar water as an experiment to see, but keeping their classical business front and centre in case this whole rock thing fizzled out altogether within the decade. the rest, as they say, is history.



    @HarrySeven Please could you provide some idea of the fingerboard widths and neck profiles of those Egmonds?

    Ta.


    They’re Ekos, Sir!

    Now, re. your question...imagine a cricket stump.

    Run an imaginary plane down its imaginary length, so you have a flat face (half-moon cross-section).

    Imagine what that might feel like when you grip it.

    Voila. That’s the neck.

    maybe like the infamous framus and hofner 'broom handle' basses beloved by mister wyman?

    eko made for vox too, so maybe they are the same dimensions as wymans teardrop bass c1965.

    ps. many thanks for the post @HarrySeven much appreciated vintage freak guitar porn.
    hofner hussie & hayman harpie. what she said...
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  • valevale Frets: 1052
    gringopig said:
    One is an odd thing to have. Two is freakish!
    This is a H7 thread. Having just two is freakish.
    the man-museum that is H7 is actually a paragon of discipline and self-restraint. to be able to exercise his all-consuming obssession in moderation only confirms his mastery of his vices.
    hofner hussie & hayman harpie. what she said...
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    The available evidence suggests otherwise. ;)
    Be seeing you.
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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 8017
    vale said:

    maybe like the infamous framus and hofner 'broom handle' basses beloved by mister wyman?
    Talking of Bill Wyman...somewhere, I have a (modified) variant of a Framus Star Bass. It has the spindliest neck ever.


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