Edit- Just stumbled on another tidbit of info.
"Elk was a Japanese manufacturer (Miyuki Ind. Co.) who started out in 1953 making amplifiers inspired by the Fender amplifiers of the day. The original brand name was Echo. In the early 60's Miyuki started making pro quality guitars under the brand name of Elk and changed the brand name of the amplifiers to Elk as well. The brand probably stopped in the early 1980's.
Miyuki also used the Luxor and Royal brand names for their amps in Europe.
In 1969 there was a big fire in the factory, burning many amps and guitars. Quite a shock for the people who worked there.
It seems that the later Elk amps had solid state preamps and tube power amps."
Now that there's bigger pictures, I'm seeing that the guitar seems to be of very nice quality workmanship.The vibrato/bridge looks to be of much better quality then typical of other Japanese Mosrite clones I've seen. Pickups look good too.I like it alot. How does it sound and play?Statistics: Posted by Spud1950 — Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:29 am
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