SOLD: Avon (Rose-Morris) guitar

neil_d

A 1970s(?) Japanese made Avon (Rose-Morris) LP-ish guitar. It's not in a great way, for example: neck screw heads are all chewed up, electrics are barely functional, big chip in the finish on the neck,  some control plate screw holes go into the cavity while others are stripped. (I can take some more photos or provide details if needed).

The first electric guitar I picked and started to learn on, but there seems no point me continuing to store it in this state. I don't have the equipment or skills to properly restore (and it doesn't seem worth it to pay someone to do it). So, maybe you want to have a go at restoring or salvage parts for a project or use it for something else creative...

Musical_Mystery_Tour

They actually go for a fair bit on fleabay, where many people seem to think describing them erroneously as 'lawsuit era guitars' somehow means they were so great that it put fear of god into Gibson's sales department. I doubt anyone who actually had one would think that.

I suspect the people buying them are doing so out of feeling nostalgic for their 'first guitar' they had years ago. You might want to consider taking advantage of that and flogging it; you might get 200 quid judging by current trends.

Offset

Wow I remember these very well indeed.  The other guitarist in my first band had a blonde Avon Telecaster and it really wasn't a bad guitar.  Mind you, the fact he was an excellent guitarist did help a bit :-)

Great offer for the nostalgic and capable amongst us and I'd like to se how it ends up!

neil_d

Musical_Mystery_Tour said:

They actually go for a fair bit on fleabay...

Thank you for the suggest. I've also put it on ebay to see if there's any interest.