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I was wondering if anybody had seen one of these. The
now defunct pseudo-surf band that played here in
Athens for a while's lead guitarist had one that he
played for every show I saw except the first (he
played a Tele at that one) and the thing looked really
cool. It had a squarish headstock but with six inline
like a Fender, a Jag/JM trem and I believe four
pickups. It was red with a faux tort gaurd. I have
no idea how old the guitar was but I was guessing
60's. I never got a chance to ask him about it and I
haven't seen one at myrareguitars.com
Anybody?
Richard
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These have the body shape of a Jazzmaster, but the
scale is like a Les Paul. The neck is bolt on, but the
connection is not square, more set-neck style. The
neckwood usually is of a certain type of plywood, to
keep the neck from twisting and warping over the
years. There are 2 and 3 p.u. models. They were made
between 1964 and the early 70s. All had single coil
pick-ups with a metal shielding. The later ones were
square with screws while the early ones were rounded
at the ends, with either black or white plastic around
the magnetic polepieces.
They are being called Stratos, my first electric was
one of them. Many have narrow necks and small frets,
smaller than Mosrite! They produce a great sustain,
but the neck material is really degrading the guitars
otherwise quality features. I always thought my 64
two white pick-up Strato could have benefitted from
brighter sounding p.u.s. I put some in for Swanlake
on Cool Surfin.
KK
--- Richard <> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anybody had seen one of these.
> The
> now defunct pseudo-surf band that played here in
> Athens for a while's lead guitarist had one that he
> played for every show I saw except the first (he
> played a Tele at that one) and the thing looked
> really
> cool. It had a squarish headstock but with six
> inline
> like a Fender, a Jag/JM trem and I believe four
> pickups. It was red with a faux tort gaurd. I have
> no idea how old the guitar was but I was guessing
> 60's. I never got a chance to ask him about it and
> I
> haven't seen one at myrareguitars.com
>
> Anybody?
>
> Richard
>
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After doing a search I realize that what I thought was
a Framus Jag copy is actually not a Framus, at least
not any that I've found any information on. I found
pictures of the Strato you spoke of, Kahuna, but that
wasn't quite it. I did another Google search and came
up with the "Television" model, which was closer to
Jaguarness, but not what I was seeing the other day.
This guitar had a squarish headstock (like the Dipinto
Mach IV's, go take a look) but had all the tuning pegs
in a row. The body was also dead-on Jag/JM, I mean
like lawsuit dead-on. It had a Jag/JM floating trem
and a Strat pickup configuration. It was red with a
red tort/tiger-eye/whatever you wanna call it
pickgaurd. Too bad the band I saw it in broke up or I
could track the dude down and ask him.
Richard
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