What's this guitar?

MartinBush

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what model/ make this guitar might have started out as? I am presuming that the neck and body are from the same model, but I could be wrong. 

I expect that the next trem is an after-market upgrade

Funkfingers

Looks like an old JHS/Encore.

SteveRobinson

MartinBush

Thanks chaps. I'd love to replicate that one, minus the elastic neck As with all things like this, I suspect there's far more to it than meets the eye...

Maybe I will see if the Painted Guitar Player does a version

Closest I can get from the horse's mouth is that it was $30 from a thrift store in Scotland in 1989: https://therumpus.net/2016/08/wantedneededloved-11-jad-fair/

Woodenhead

Funkfingers said:

Looks like an old JHS/Encore.

My mate had something similar to this in the 90s, it matches apart from the controls.

guitargeek62

Satellite made something very similar to that, a mate of mine had one years ago. The body was ridiculously thin - it made an SG look massive!

skullfunkerry

Woodenhead said:

Funkfingers said:

Looks like an old JHS/Encore.

My mate had something similar to this in the 90s, it matches apart from the controls.

guitargeek62 said:

Satellite made something very similar to that, a mate of mine had one years ago. The body was ridiculously thin - it made an SG look massive!

I had a black one of those years ago. Really thin and shrill-sounding humbucker, and as @guitargeek62 says, very thin lightweight body: it was neck heavy, even playing sitting down. I couldn’t get it to stay in tune for longer than about 4 minutes at a time, either.

MartinBush

I think I may have found one... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Rare-Encore-EG-50-MK-Custom-Series-Electric-Guitar-1989/143797143994

It's rare

I think Fair's neck mod makes any tuning shortcomings, or neck heaviness, irrelevant...

Seems to have held its value well - https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/jhs-encore-eg50/7168

Woodenhead

Hah, selling it at the original price, not sure they'll get £79 but at least it's not stupidly priced like some old cheapo guitars. Saying that, you could get a used Ibanez GX30 for less, looks similar and undoubtedly better quality.

I tried buying my mates Encore but he wouldn't sell it, I wanted the neck for a flying-v project, ended up using an Encore JHS-A7 with the cool sharkfin inlays instead (and shitty MFG floyd bridge).

Adey

Looks like an old Satellite from 70s or 80s to me.

SteveRobinson

Adey said:

Looks like an old Satellite from 70s or 80s to me.

Bingo! This is it
https://www.theguitarcollection.org.uk/guitar/satellite-9b/

There is one on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Satellite-electric-Guitar-1970-80s-/143800984517

MartinBush

That's brilliant! Shame every candidate I've seen so far is collect in person, which is the opposite of what you'd expect at the moment.

alalalkasar

Looks to me like a old satalite 9b, one of the junkiest junk guitars I've ever played.

Edit... Oops looks like the mystery has already been solved.

Funkfingers

alalalkasar said:

one of the junkiest junk guitars I've ever played.

MartinBush said:

every candidate I've seen so far is collect in person

The cost of fully insured shipping probably exceeds the likely selling price. For that matter, the price of fresh strings is probably a substantial proportion of the selling price. More importantly, budget guitars like these need to be viewed in person to check whether they will be playable.

MartinBush

Funkfingers said:

More importantly, budget guitars like these need to be viewed in person to check whether they will be playable.

That is true. although "playability" means something different in this case if you take a look at the video...

Adey

Just watched the video. That is a strange stringing arrangement - a low E sttring on the 1st and 6th Strings. Not seen that before.

MartinBush

The science of it has been worked out quite precisely -