LYLE Trini Lopez

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:25 am

I cannot teste the electronics

The hardware is mostly junk, but this is a hot looking guitar for not much dosh.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:30 pm

timhulio wrote:I cannot teste the electronics

for goodness' sake. he sells guitars in a shop called 'slappysvintage' but doesn't have a multimeter? jog on ya plum!

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:35 pm

I had something very similar to this. The pickups were junky, very microphonic which is weird because from the covers they look like a humbucker. They could be applicable for noise and recording music in that style.

Also the guitar was a bolt-on, Japanese, it was weird cause it had a nice old feeling but I wouldn't describe it as exactly being well made. A new epiphone dot is better made, but also feels more plastic like, if that makes sense. Also the bridge on these were straight junk. I'm pretty sure it was completely hollow cause it had a floating bridge, with really bad saddles.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:55 pm

Looks extremely similar. Yours had a longer reverb handle.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:13 pm

Yes the tremolo was a lot less complicated than the look on the one you posted. A guy who collected and loved these much more than I could ended up buying it on eBay, he also collected Soviet Era Police uniforms

. I listed it as a lyle/aria/ventura eventhough mines had no name on the headstock, and he didn't seem to have a gripe. He had a bunch of others from this era, so it's probably related.

There was also an Epiphone and an Aria with many similarities I saw from this Matsumoko factory webpage.

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/epiphon ... /pics.html

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/aria/ho ... g/sig.html

The aria one looks just like the one I had, minus the tremolo and sunburst headtsock. But it has the same crappy bridge, knobs, burst style.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:14 pm

hmm, these are like these ones I posted about before:

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19875

except with the Trini f-hole and cock-stock. cool.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:17 pm

mage wrote:hmm, these are like these ones I posted about before:

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19875

except with the Trini f-hole and cock-stock. cool.

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/aria/ho ... /semi.html

That black one is in the catalog section under Aria.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:29 pm

So there are copies! That guy on Craigslist was called on the carpet for his Dave Grohl thing. Now I don't know what it is.