Hi Guys, I thought just to help keep this ball rolling I'd post some of my photo's of builds I did way back when. I also thought I'd post like 1 a day to build the anticipation as the days go by. My first post is a photo of 2 of my first what I call "Mini" guitars. The bodies are derived from the body shape of the early Gibson 350 jazz guitar only reduced in size. They are also semi hollow and have a 23.5' scale. I also had soft cases to fit, made by Reunion Blues Cases in San Francisco. The pickups are Bartolini probably P-60's and the wood is alder in both. Bill Bartolini had a Japanese distributor for his pickups and he saw these guitars one day. So he asked me if I wanted to build more for him to be sold in Japan. The cases, by the way, have Pack Straps so they can be worn like a pack for carrying. Sagi bought both guitars on the spot and was on his way back to Japan. He said he'd contact me later to place an order for more and that's when Japan's economy went under. Needless to say the deal never happened.
Though I did build a few more for the Bartolini's which they sold at their booth in the NAMM shows, I also built a couple more for myself. One has a Mahogany body with a black pearl sunburst and the other, which is unfinished as of yet, is alder with a figured maple top. It last one will have a coffee brown sunburst when done. I'll be showing that one later.
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