John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 09:06 AM
Surfable? I dunno, maybe? Anyway, here's some images of several of my personal 'example' guitars that showed up at my door in the past two weeks, and being savagely cold and snowy outside, I took a bunch of 'artsy' photos of them the other day.
Orange/mint green model 700 'Katalina'. I don't think more than 15-20 of these were made, but I'm not sure...
Green model 1100 'Marz 6', another very, very, low number guitar, with perhaps twenty produced?...
My new, pearl white Super 100 (trem version) joins my other model 100 variants, a mix of colors and makers, including one very crude Chinese knockoff counterfeit.
The red/cream trem version of my 'Rocketbox' semi-hollow...
This is the same guitar as the pearl white one posted in the group shot above, I simply switched out the silver 'pickguard' for the blue one. This particular model came with four different color guard plates so they can be changed depending on one's preference.
One more of the red/cream 'Rockerbox' semi-hollow...
A current photo of my entire little collection of 'my stuff' guitars, showing original prototypes (3), Chinese knockoffs (2), hand-built US JBD 'Boutiques' (3), and the rest Korean-built production guitars made under several different brands, 19 in total with several more new-model additions likely added by the end of the upcoming summer...
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bamboozer
Joined: Jan 18, 2010
Posts: 672
Delaware
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 09:44 AM
Impressive collection to say the least.
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 09:56 AM
bamboozer wrote:
Impressive collection to say the least.
Thank you! Undoubtedly, the largest collection of 'my stuff' in the entire world.
Although I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
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Ariel
Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 1555
Israel
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 10:24 AM
Stop with this humble brag...
Awesome collection! It's all supposed to be fun, anyway.
which one is the most playable?
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DeathTide
Joined: Apr 13, 2018
Posts: 1341
New Orleans
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 10:38 AM
INCREDIBLE!!!! I am blown away. I’ve never seen guitars like that. Woweeeeee!
I would love to hear samples! And yeah, how do they feel?
— Daniel Deathtide
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 11:29 AM
Ariel wrote:
Stop with this humble brag...
Awesome collection! It's all supposed to be fun, anyway.
which one is the most playable?
I think the Marz is the most playable for me at the moment, followed closely by the Rockerbox. I suppose mostly because I almost always play sitting, and the Model 100's are more of a 'stand up' guitar that feel like a greased pig to me if played sitting. My green Marz has a very good feeling neck to me too, but I'm pretty sure that If I would bother to get the Rockerbox a decent setup, it would feel better to me. On the other hand, it might be perfect as-is for the another player. I haven't even plugged in the Super 100, or most of my other 100's yet, for that matter, and I've owned several of them for years.
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Surfing_Sam_61
Joined: Jan 15, 2019
Posts: 1515
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 11:35 AM
Guitar fever - totally rad - I've seen those guitars before I like that lime green one... nice 
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Mar 03 2019 11:37 AM
DeathTide wrote:
INCREDIBLE!!!! I am blown away. I’ve never seen guitars like that. Woweeeeee!
I would love to hear samples! And yeah, how do they feel?
You can find demos of most of them on YouTube. Search: 'Backlund Guitars' in general, or maybe the specific model name, they would be: Backlund model 100..200..400..'Marz 6'.. 'Katalina'..and'Rockerbox'. That's currently about all of them, I think. Some of the videos go back quite a few years, and showcase the old JBD Company US built 'boutique' guitars that other than general appearance, have little in common with the currently made 'Backlund' models.
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mad_dog
Joined: Sep 23, 2008
Posts: 349
Montclair, NJ
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Posted on Mar 06 2019 09:12 AM
That first one, with the 3 lipsticks ... oh man!!
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Boss_Daddy_Meltdown
Joined: Apr 25, 2018
Posts: 84
Gainesville, GA
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Posted on Mar 06 2019 02:05 PM
John_Backlund wrote:
Surfable? I dunno, maybe? Anyway, here's some images of several of my personal 'example' guitars that showed up at my door in the past two weeks, and being savagely cold and snowy outside, I took a bunch of 'artsy' photos of them the other day.
Orange/mint green model 700 'Katalina'. I don't think more than 15-20 of these were made, but I'm not sure...
Green model 1100 'Marz 6', another very, very, low number guitar, with perhaps twenty produced?...
My new, pearl white Super 100 (trem version) joins my other model 100 variants, a mix of colors and makers, including one very crude Chinese knockoff counterfeit.
The red/cream trem version of my 'Rocketbox' semi-hollow...
This is the same guitar as the pearl white one posted in the group shot above, I simply switched out the silver 'pickguard' for the blue one. This particular model came with four different color guard plates so they can be changed depending on one's preference.
One more of the red/cream 'Rockerbox' semi-hollow...
A current photo of my entire little collection of 'my stuff' guitars, showing original prototypes (3), Chinese knockoffs (2), hand-built US JBD 'Boutiques' (3), and the rest Korean-built production guitars made under several different brands, 19 in total with several more new-model additions likely added by the end of the upcoming summer...
Beyond amazing!!!!...would LOVE to get one of these one day.
— Can I have everything louder than everything else!
https://thesurfaces1.bandcamp.com/releases
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Mar 06 2019 11:38 PM
mad_dog wrote:
That first one, with the 3 lipsticks ... oh man!!
I liked it (of course), but not many others did, I doubt if more than twenty to twenty-five were made, though I'm not sure of the actual number.
Here's my production Katalina with the original hand-built prototype...
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Pablomago
Joined: Mar 23, 2017
Posts: 85
Fort Collins, CO/Moonstone Beach, CA
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Posted on Mar 07 2019 05:30 PM
The green 1100 model would make a killer slide guitar. And you could set it up for playing lap style or underarm!
— All opinions expressed by this poster are well thought out and based on actual experience and/or scientific experimentation, except for those which are knee-jerk reactions or good sounding fantasies.
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Mar 29 2019 09:50 PM
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DeathTide
Joined: Apr 13, 2018
Posts: 1341
New Orleans
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Posted on Mar 30 2019 08:42 AM
WOW! That’s unbelievable. I’m sooooo curious about how these all sound, and if they’re comfortable to play.
— Daniel Deathtide
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Apr 17 2019 11:47 AM
A recent re-design of my old model 800 from at least a decade ago.
I 'spaced up' the old, plain-Jane version of the 800, which was sold years ago under the Retronix label. I never really liked it, feeling that it was just visually too conservative.
The 'new and improved' Backlund model 800 concept...
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Apr 17 2019 11:57 AM
My 'old' Backlund model 800 (Retronix). It's nice enough, but lacking my usual eccentric touch, too 'conventional'. The only reason it was offered rather than one of my other, more 'Backlund-y', models was because Retronix considered it a 'safer' design to try to sell, and it certainly was....'safer', but not what I wanted it to be. That has now been...corrected!
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Apr 18 2019 12:01 AM
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DeathTide
Joined: Apr 13, 2018
Posts: 1341
New Orleans
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Posted on Apr 18 2019 08:45 AM
Those are so crazy cool looking!
— Daniel Deathtide
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Toneschaser
Joined: Jun 14, 2012
Posts: 462
Ohio!
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Posted on Apr 19 2019 09:36 AM
Always cool, I dig your style!
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montereyjack66
Joined: Jul 23, 2014
Posts: 637
LA -ish
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Posted on Apr 19 2019 09:41 PM
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