Guitar ID (travel size guitar)?

[Dingus]

Hey all, does anybody recognize this brand/model of guitar? I feel like I'm so close to reading that headstock, but so far. I'm thinking the rounded bout may have been chopped down to that, regardless I still can't I.D. what this started as.





For anyone curious who that is, it's Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, Rancid, etc...) in 1992 at the beginning of Rancid as a band.

[Bacchus]

Is it an explorer type guitar, flipped and with some bits taken off?

[Dingus]

Is it an explorer type guitar, flipped and with some bits taken off?

I think that's highly probable. Would love to figure out at least the brand though so I can come up with some options.

[Dingus]

Actually, I think I just found it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1985-Ta ... 1998306609

[dots]

i had no idea takamine made solid bodies.

[Doog]

His sliced-up one looks raaaaaaad

[jcyphe]

Hacked up Explorer type guitars have always been kind of cool.

[Brandon W]

i saw them several times but he wasn't playing that.. would have been way cooler if he were

[Fakir Mustache]

Looks similar to the Aria Pro II ZZ as well, but the one in question is probably a Takamine because it looks like that on the headstock.

Probably both brands of that model came out of the same factory.

[Bacchus]

Looks similar to the Aria Pro II ZZ as well, but the one in question is probably a Takamine because it looks like that on the headstock.

Probably both brands of that model came out of the same factory.

I thought it looked Aria Proish and maybe Matsumoku too, but the sort of knobbly knuckle part on the headstock I think gives it away as a Takemine.