EMG guitars?

Jetfire

Confused bloke on eBay or actual thing?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283452814230

Funkfingers

I have seen that trademark-dodging headstock design before somewhere but cannot place it.

Looks like partscaster, put together by a tech, to demonstrate pickups EXCEPT no self-respecting shop would bother demonstrating EMG-HZ pickups other than, maybe, the GZR bass pair.

skullfunkerry

Funkfingers said:

I have seen that trademark-dodging headstock design before somewhere but cannot place it.

Looks like partscaster, put together by a tech, to demonstrate pickups EXCEPT no self-respecting shop would bother demonstrating EMG-HZ pickups other than, maybe, the GZR bass pair.

Don’t Harley Benton use that headstock shape?

HarrySeven

@Jetfire - shouldn’t be that confused - unless I’m greatly mistaken, it’s a long-standing shop in Bristol (although the eBay account appears to be a personal one):

https://i.imgur.com/pTk3fv0.jpg

Funkfingers

skullfunkerry said:

Funkfingers said:

I have seen that trademark-dodging headstock design before somewhere but cannot place it.

Don’t Harley Benton use that headstock shape?

Shush! They’ll all want one.

JayGee

Funkfingers said:

I have seen that trademark-dodging headstock design before somewhere but cannot place it.

Looks like partscaster, put together by a tech, to demonstrate pickups EXCEPT no self-respecting shop would bother demonstrating EMG-HZ pickups other than, maybe, the GZR bass pair.

Description suggests that it was done for a trade show - I don’t know whether many manufacturers/distributors/rebranders at the EMG HZ end of the market look at anything beyond BoM cost and how the spec is going to look in the adverts, but in the event that someone sourcing parts to assemble 30,000 guitars to a budget in Indonesia actually cares what they’re going to sound like I imagine having a pair of them screwed to something like this to hand is quite handy...

Funkfingers

So, £200 tops for the host guitar, £100 for the pickups, something for the HH scratchplate and the soldering work, subtract something for the devaluing effect of sanding off the original H-B decal.

Maybe, just maybe, it is worth one third of the price being asked.