Post by park on Feb 14, 2008 11:12:17 GMT -5
Hello everyone. I thought I'd say hello here and post a couple of pictures of my jazz leaning guitars. None of them are especially high end, but that leaves money to buy more! I've acquired these over the last twenty years or so.
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Starting at the top left is a 2005 Chinese made reissue of a Hagstrom D'Aquisto. They call it the HJ600. I bought that out of curiosity and it turned out to be a nice guitar for the price. Next to that is a 1977 Swedish Hagstrom D'Aquisto (aka the Jimmy). D'Aquisto designed these for Hagstrom back in the late 60s. He even used some of Hagstrom's Birch ply bodies in a run of his own instruments. It's a kick to think that my modest Hagstrom is a cousin to some real D'Aquistos with 20k price tags. Then a 2000 Epiphone Howard Roberts. At the far right top is another '77 Hagstrom Jimmy, but the single pickup, oval hole model. It's an extremely sweet sound guitar. Only about 350 were made. D'Aquisto did some magic for Hagstrom back then. On the bottom left is 1973 Hagstrom Viking. In the middle is a 1975 Guild X-175, the jazziest jazz guitar I've got. And then is a '74 Hagstrom Viking. Looks the same as the '73 but has a totally different personality and feel. The Vikings have the same body shape as the Guild Starfire. Guild and Hagstrom had some kind of business relationship back in the 60s and early 70s. Hagstrom supplied Guild with a line of amps and various guitar parts and I think they borrowed the Starfire body shape in return. But they kept the D'Aquisto designed headstock shape and tuners.
Here are a couple of odds and ends that didn't make it into the group shot. First is an '82 Carvin SH-225.
These were built for Carvin by Hofner which is why they look just like the Verythin. Carvin put in their own electronics and finish.
Finally, a guitar I bought not too long ago, a Hondo copy of a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion. I think these were made in Japan in the early 80s and it is very nicely built copy. This one is in transition. I wanted something that would cover a wide range of tones so I replaced the stock (very microphonic) pickups with two GFS Loudmouth humbuckers and wired them with push-pull coil-tap pots on volumes. So it goes from surprisingly thick jazz tone to pretty stringy. I also installed two Tonestyler tone gizmos. The jury is still out on those. I wanted at least one guitar with a trem so I put on a Stetsbar. No routing or drilling required for those. It works very well. This guitar still needs a little work, but it's coming along.
There are a few other solidbodies and acoustics laying around, but that's the bulk of my collection. Hope you enjoyed looking at them. - Park
Starting at the top left is a 2005 Chinese made reissue of a Hagstrom D'Aquisto. They call it the HJ600. I bought that out of curiosity and it turned out to be a nice guitar for the price. Next to that is a 1977 Swedish Hagstrom D'Aquisto (aka the Jimmy). D'Aquisto designed these for Hagstrom back in the late 60s. He even used some of Hagstrom's Birch ply bodies in a run of his own instruments. It's a kick to think that my modest Hagstrom is a cousin to some real D'Aquistos with 20k price tags. Then a 2000 Epiphone Howard Roberts. At the far right top is another '77 Hagstrom Jimmy, but the single pickup, oval hole model. It's an extremely sweet sound guitar. Only about 350 were made. D'Aquisto did some magic for Hagstrom back then. On the bottom left is 1973 Hagstrom Viking. In the middle is a 1975 Guild X-175, the jazziest jazz guitar I've got. And then is a '74 Hagstrom Viking. Looks the same as the '73 but has a totally different personality and feel. The Vikings have the same body shape as the Guild Starfire. Guild and Hagstrom had some kind of business relationship back in the 60s and early 70s. Hagstrom supplied Guild with a line of amps and various guitar parts and I think they borrowed the Starfire body shape in return. But they kept the D'Aquisto designed headstock shape and tuners.
Here are a couple of odds and ends that didn't make it into the group shot. First is an '82 Carvin SH-225.
These were built for Carvin by Hofner which is why they look just like the Verythin. Carvin put in their own electronics and finish.
Finally, a guitar I bought not too long ago, a Hondo copy of a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion. I think these were made in Japan in the early 80s and it is very nicely built copy. This one is in transition. I wanted something that would cover a wide range of tones so I replaced the stock (very microphonic) pickups with two GFS Loudmouth humbuckers and wired them with push-pull coil-tap pots on volumes. So it goes from surprisingly thick jazz tone to pretty stringy. I also installed two Tonestyler tone gizmos. The jury is still out on those. I wanted at least one guitar with a trem so I put on a Stetsbar. No routing or drilling required for those. It works very well. This guitar still needs a little work, but it's coming along.
There are a few other solidbodies and acoustics laying around, but that's the bulk of my collection. Hope you enjoyed looking at them. - Park