It's oh so very pointy... the Robin Wedge

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Just think, this could have been called a "Flying V" if someone else hadn't already come up with the name. Not so much a "reverse body" but a "rotated through 90 degrees" body.

From Houston, TX's very own legendary boutique guitar brand, it's a Robin Wedge. This example is "Made in Japan", which would date it somewhere between 1982 and 1986 when Robin guitars were built by Tokai and FujiGen. Manufacture of Robin guitars moved to the United States from 1986. It's an interesting observation that where so many other brands once had guitars manufactured in the USA they are now being built out East, while Robin guitars must be one of the few exceptions where this has happened the other way around.

G L Wilson

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Robin Fleetwood

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Here's a small company guitar, the Fleetwood by Robin Guitars. It's an obvious variation on Gibson's Firebird, with a 70s Yamaha lower horn and a post-Moderne headstock.

I can't tell if I love it or I hate it - change my mind each time I look at it... Probably without the transparent cherry finish and the pickguard, it would have a chance to be more than a variation and could be considered not only in relation to the original model... Anyway, rooting in vintage is the new way to create guitars, so that's an interesting try...

Though probably a complete failure when I really think of it!

bertram

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You don't see many of these for sale on eBay

At first glance it may appear to be a toy guitar or one of those horrible computer game controllers (which I refuse EVER to blog about), but no, it a Robin Octave Guitar made in Houston, Texas. These little babies had some degree of popularity in the 1980s and were used by the likes of Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics and Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds, often to double track guitar parts in a higher octave.

I'm reminded of this famous shot of Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan playing a Robin doubleneck, the top neck that SRV is playing being the octave guitar neck.

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