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Guitar ID (travel size guitar)?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:06 pm
by 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.
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:18 pm
by Bacchus
Is it an explorer type guitar, flipped and with some bits taken off?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:35 pm
by Dingus
Bacchus wrote: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.
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:48 pm
by Dingus
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:14 pm
by dots
i had no idea takamine made solid bodies.
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:48 pm
by Doog
His sliced-up one looks raaaaaaad
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:02 pm
by jcyphe
Hacked up Explorer type guitars have always been kind of cool.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:58 pm
by Brandon W
i saw them several times but he wasn't playing that.. would have been way cooler if he were
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:54 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:19 pm
by Bacchus
Fakir Mustache wrote: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.