by newey » Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:20 pm
The redburst single pickup one, as posted above by Vint, has many similarities to a single pickup Norma I owned in 1970- see this Norma thread:
The one pictured in that thread, the two pickup version, has a trem. My single pickup version had the exact "half-shell" tailpiece and the same bridge as Vint's Horugel. Same headstock and tuners, same goldfoil pickup, same bar-style string retainer, zero fret. Same angular pickguard, too, but mine didn't have the flower filigree around the edges.
The body was similar in shape, but the horns were a bit different on my Norma, curved inward in a more "steer-horn" look- like the other photo in the Norma thread.
Obviously, both "Norma" and "Horugel" were distributor's names, not manufacturers, but I'd say that the source was the same and the time frame (late '60s-early '70s) was the same too.
This would fit with LordBizarre's note that Horugels were from different sources.