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Admin09.08.2021

NGD: An original 1954 gold top

Towards the end, the line actually continued to increase in sales.
Admin31.08.2021

Device Search

There were many name variations for The Bacon Banjo Company, Inc.
40010
Admin15.08.2021

Device Search

That time period was when their guitars weren't all that great in my view and is one of the reasons I'm not that enthralled with the Martin name.
2309
Admin19.08.2021

vega guitars

For one thing, the tone pots seem to give the brightest sound in the middle of the taper, and it's possible that the caps have drifted so far that they're resistors now.
1006
Admin18.06.2021

vega guitars

Fingerboards: There is no pattern to when and whether they used dyed wood or ebony on WL 2s, although the 7s seem to be all ebony.
Admin03.07.2021

Identifying Vintage Guitars, Banjos & Mandolins

The choice to discontinue the Mark Series had to do with the general turmoil of the Gibson company in the last years of ownership by Norlin.
5705
Admin03.07.2021

vega guitars

They were the J-45 and the Southerner Jumbo.
Admin07.08.2021

1954 Vega Westerner

The somewhat radical headstock shape was discontinued at Gibson with the Mark Series but appears to have been an influence on the young Paul Reed Smith who later used a similar shape for his electric instruments.
8601
Admin21.08.2021

Vega Guitar info

13 fret neck to body joint again 1933• Striped tortoise plastic pickguards added 1935• Like everything else connected to instrument identification issues — there are many exceptions.
806
Admin05.09.2021

Vega guitar

Chording up the neck was impossible, and would have been completely out of tune had I managed it.
8102
Admin27.08.2021

Vega Guitar info

CLM, Classical guitar with mahogany back and sides.
4302
Admin09.08.2021

Identifying Vintage Guitars, Banjos & Mandolins

My Westerner was acquired as something of a project, needing wiring repairs, a new pickguard and truss rod cover, and having been stripped of a coat of green paint which, fortunately, did not affect the original gold underneath.
1602