I scored this cheap on ebay and it came in. I really like it. I want to swap out pots and the bridge, but otherwise it is pretty sweet! Nice red burst like the one on the ET-270 I had.
Egads the knobs on that thing! Granted they're probably original but still look comically huge.
Looks like a great player and well put together. Congrats!
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:37 am
by HNB
They are super big lol. The toggle switch is big and textured also.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:13 am
by NickS
Looks pretty nice.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 11:23 am
by theshadowofseattle
The knobs look like those huge stomp switches that Rooskie EHX pedals had. BUT BIGGER.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:55 pm
by 71Smallbox
Are you starting a Univox collection?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 10:00 pm
by stewart
looks like a hagstrom tailpiece.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:19 am
by HNB
I like their neck shape a ton. I guess it is called an oval or a D shape? Thin and wide.
The tailpiece totally looks like a Hagstrom one. I just put a bigger Gotoh bridge on and it is much better.
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:42 pm
by brainfur
cool guitar
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 4:09 pm
by Thomas
I love the headstock/neckplate logo. It has a cool 70s sci-fi sort of vibe.
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:18 pm
by HNB
Yeah totally mock futuristic.
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:14 pm
by jmmc
thats a pretty rad guitar
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:09 am
by HNB
I do an cruddy demo for you.
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:27 am
by HNB
Turns out this model is called their Badazz.
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:36 am
by HNB
The Badazz U1820 guitar and U1820B bass were essentially bolt-neck copies of the new Guild S-100 introduced in 1970, the so-called “Guild SG.� This was a solidbody with slightly offset double cutaways. It had a bolt-on neck with a Gibson-style open book head, outlined decal logo, block inlays, bound 22-fret rosewood fingerboard (rounded end), two of the 12-pole humbuckers with the narrow center black insert, finetune bridge, Hagstrom-style vibrato (as found on early Guilds), two volume and two tone controls, plus three-way. The bass was the same without the vibrato and with dots along the upper edge of the fingerboard. These were available in cherry red, orange sunburst or natural (“naked�). List price for the guitars in ’71 was $199.50 with case, while the basses cost $220. These pickups, by the way, while being somewhat microphonic (as with most early Japanese units), scream, if you like a really hot, high-output sound.
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