Epiphone Double Scroll Bass

We've already looked at the Epiphone Scroll Guitar on this blog (there's one for sale on eBay right now - if I hadn't just lost my job I'd snap it up straight away) and here's its bass counterpart also from the 1970s, the Epiphone Double Scroll bass, featuring - as the name suggests - scrolls on both horns. She sure is a beauty!

Gibson L-5 Hutchins 1934 reissue

I usually don't like luxury guitars, but let's just enjoy together the vision of the pure and simple classicism of this Gibson L-5 Hutchins.

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60s Hopf Telstar

I do love when guitar fronts look like spaceship dashboards in British 60s science-fiction TV shows. That's strange since I usually never change the settings on my guitars - mostly neck pickup and all the knobs on 10 -, and when I want to change my sound, I have to pick another guitar (so I have a good reason to have many guitars and to look for more).

So this beautiful and highly vintage Hopf Telstar is quite appealing to me, but the wood finish reminds me of the furniture of my grandmother, so I'd have the urge to sand it off and make it mate transparent black... But you can't really do that on a guitar from the 60s, can you?

About its sound, of course I can't tell, but I saw The Kills on stage a few weeks ago and really enjoyed what Jamie Hince does with his vintage Hofner... So that's the kind of sound I expect from this guitar!

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Bandwidth exceeded - what a complete load of *!$#

Yes, I know the bandwidth has been "exceeded" on certain photos on this blog where they have been hosted on Photobucket. This is complete nonsense as hits to the blog have not risen dramatically recently. The problem is where images are picked up by Google Image Search. I've asked both Google/Blogger and Photobucket if there is a way to stop Google Image Search picking up certain pictures, and received zero help.

Unfortunately I cannot afford to upgrade to a PhotoBucket Pro account. I have just lost my job and need to save every penny that I can. As for Blogspot hosted pictures - well they are bloody hopeless. I don't want the small automatic thumbnails that are generated. I want BIG pictures.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

End of rant.

Yamaha SC400

A different version of the 80s Yamaha SC - with a little bit more personality than the SC300T, but still leaving the impression of being a taming of the brilliant SGV of the previous decade...

Too bad that Yamaha gave up design innovation since, like most guitar makers actually...

Yamaha SC300T

The seller offers zero information about this Yamaha SC300T guitar, so that I'm not sure if it's one of their very early guitars when such peculiar shapes were normal fare for the company, or if it is a more recent retro reissue.

Either way, the quirky design is intriguing, and perhaps owes a thing or two to the upside-down off-centre looking designs of Mosrite.

What a pity that the pickup layout and trem system are bog-standard Strat and not something a little bit more unusual.

70s Wilson W-Type

Last week in the comments about the Wilson Sapphire, Andy gave the link to the Watkins Guitar World website - well it's really worth spending time on this website and if like me you didn't know much about this British vintage brand, you'll have the pleasure of a great discovery...

Amongst all the great guitars there, I chose to show the Wilson W-type, with its fluid design disturbed by a just a little bit too pointy florentine cutaway , and lot of metal on the front - that's always nice...

I do like the pickguards shapes on Wilson/Watkins guitars, I think that a good design is always a combination of the guitar shape itself and its subtle modification by the pickguard shape - that's probably why I don't like most "naked" guitars...

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