New here and I thought I'd share my one vintage guitar. I have owned it since it was purchased new in 1971, probably a 1970 date of manufacture but I'm not sure about that- I'm not sure of much of anything about this guitar so any info would be appreciated.
My parents got it for me for my junior high school graduation present, so I couldn't ever part with it, but an idea of the value (if any) would be appreciated for curiosity's sake. Original price was $99.95 (which is about $400 in 2008 dollars)
I've been told by a couple of sources that it's a Univox copy of a Mosrite so I suspect that's right. But the guitar came new without a headstock logo (or any other logo) on it. There was an adhesive foil sticker that said "made in Japan" on the neck plate, along with a serial No: 0082124
It has two sort-of Gretsch sounding double coil pickups, with a three-way switch on the lower bout, and a pair of 2-way switches on the upper bout, reputed to be "Bass/treble switches" for each pickup. Don't know if those are actually splitting the coils of the pickups, or maybe just bleeding some of the signal through a cap- as it's a hollow body, not so easy to take it apart and see! Has V & T pots with another toggle nearby that is On/Standby.
All original except the wooden bridge support was replaced and the tuners have been upgraded, the original ones had an oval-style knob on them.
But it has a very clean jazz-type sound, can be a bit bluesy as well. Plays real nice, has one of the thinnest sectioned necks I've seen on guitars of that era.
The fact that there was no logo on it was not a mistake on this particular guitar- the store where I got had several of these and none bore a logo. I always assumed, in the absence of any real info, that the logo was left off when these were imported from some fear of legal issues from copying a design.
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Help, anyone?
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