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http://www.guitars.greenbuddha.de/index ... 63&lang=en
it's selling between 600 and 1400 Euro, depending on its condition and the luck you have.
And excellent piece of instrument. Only bad thing is it doesn't have a normal plug to connect to modern world ... but great warm and rich to twangy sound and a nice neck that fits your hand, though it is quite thick.
If you find one to buy, ensure yourself all parts are in, because you might run into probs getting spare parts. Even a broken tuner is hard to refit.
As far as I know it was built beginning 1963 to about 1965, produced with a variety of vibrato units, most instruments with sunburst, some with natural finish (not sure if those are stripped ...), a translucent pickguard and a small chromed plate that contains the electrical part, a 4 position filter switch and a 4 position pickup selector (one position is zero), a volume pot and the DIN-connector, all housed in a shielded metal box that is quite hard to open without suitable soldering tools.
The picks are nice and quite strong singlecoils with screw adjustable pole pieces. The free adjustable and positionable bridge is set onto the top without being fixed.
The tuner are on a 6 in 1 line. I tried to find one for a Jupiter 63 (are close relative of the Saturn) and quit. Easier might be finding the right tuner knobs.
The neck is a Hopf patented EverstraightNeck, have a look at it and you will understand
the fretboard has a zero-fret.
Any more questions?
there are replicas by http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/
but they have made a lot of changes to the original, just copying the main optical features and proportions
it's selling between 600 and 1400 Euro, depending on its condition and the luck you have.
And excellent piece of instrument. Only bad thing is it doesn't have a normal plug to connect to modern world ... but great warm and rich to twangy sound and a nice neck that fits your hand, though it is quite thick.
If you find one to buy, ensure yourself all parts are in, because you might run into probs getting spare parts. Even a broken tuner is hard to refit.
As far as I know it was built beginning 1963 to about 1965, produced with a variety of vibrato units, most instruments with sunburst, some with natural finish (not sure if those are stripped ...), a translucent pickguard and a small chromed plate that contains the electrical part, a 4 position filter switch and a 4 position pickup selector (one position is zero), a volume pot and the DIN-connector, all housed in a shielded metal box that is quite hard to open without suitable soldering tools.
The picks are nice and quite strong singlecoils with screw adjustable pole pieces. The free adjustable and positionable bridge is set onto the top without being fixed.
The tuner are on a 6 in 1 line. I tried to find one for a Jupiter 63 (are close relative of the Saturn) and quit. Easier might be finding the right tuner knobs.
The neck is a Hopf patented EverstraightNeck, have a look at it and you will understand
the fretboard has a zero-fret.
Any more questions?
there are replicas by http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/
but they have made a lot of changes to the original, just copying the main optical features and proportions
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frankpaush - Posts: 141
- Joined: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:45 am
- Location: Hannover, Deutschland
Thanks Frank- It's missing the pickguard, which is probably impossible to find, and the tuners have been replaced... oh, well. Other than that, it's in pretty good contidion. It plays great and looks so cool! I made a special DIN jack for it that allows me to send one pick-up to one amp and the other pick-up to another amp for some great stereo sounds. Now I have to go somewhere on the web to figure out how to convert Euros into dollars!!
- Quentin
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- Joined: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:06 pm
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