80's superstrat guitar brand ID?

Dingus · Post by **Dingus** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:40 pm

Hey guys, can anyone identify this guitar brand?

This guitar has a strat kinda body and pickups, a tele-style 3-saddle bridge, and kind of a Fernandes/Schecter-looking headstock... I just can't read that brand name to be anything I'm familiar with:

It kind of looks like it says "Simile" or "Stable".

Yes that's Tim Armstrong, just trying to put some solid information out to the interwebz, go figure.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:45 am

That's a Harmony Strat copy. The cramped pickups and neckplate seals it for me, though you can also make out the holes on either side of the bridge from the invariably-removed cover. They were forced to change the CBS stocks on them in '85, maybe that's the other headstock shape OR it could've just been sold under a few different brands/head shapes as with many guitars of such a nature.

I wouldn't rely of what you can see of a headstock logo as it's possible that's been gone over/stickered like the rest of the guitar... looks a bit less-than-uniform for a logo, and almost like it says "senile", who knows though.
I think he painted the body and headstock face black, as I've never seen these in black, just sunburst. DO see them with black pickguards all the time though.

hilaryroe · Post by **hilaryroe** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:14 am

whats super about it?

if i put stickers all over mine will it be super ?

hilaryroe · Post by **hilaryroe** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:14 am

awww piss hilary fucking log out when you leave this shit on

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:17 am

Hahaha

I was also going to say not really a "superstrat", no locking doo-dads or hawt 'tronics.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:41 am

hilaryroe wrote:whats super about it?

if i put stickers all over mine will it be super ?

hilaryroe wrote:awww piss hilary fucking log out when you leave this shit on

I dunno, it seemed a little more awesome when it looked like Hilary said it...

Dingus · Post by **Dingus** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:23 am

paul_ wrote:That's a Harmony Strat copy. The cramped pickups and neckplate seals it for me, though you can also make out the holes on either side of the bridge from the invariably-removed cover. They were forced to change the CBS stocks on them in '85, maybe that's the other headstock shape OR it could've just been sold under a few different brands/head shapes as with many guitars of such a nature.

FUCKING A, THANK YOU PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

George · Post by **George** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:47 am

I like the sound he got in Op Ivy. Great for a garage rock or punk band. The bridge on this is a nice touch, and I bet the cramped up pickups helped with the t0n3z

Dingus · Post by **Dingus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:44 pm

Just for reference the name on the headstock that Paul posted says "Global" on it, and was apparently made by Sears?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1970s-Globa ... 1e61330791