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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 18:34:19 GMT -5
The Gretsch Rancher thread made me think of how many Gumby shaped guitars there are. I'll post some, how many do you know of? Guild Thunderbird  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 18:37:50 GMT -5
Wandre, Gumby must have been Italian.  |
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Post by drlj on Jan 17, 2014 18:40:38 GMT -5
Wasn't there a Gumby shaped Guild with a built in stand? It was like a kickstand.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 18:41:27 GMT -5
Johnny Kinkead cubist, gumbyist guitar. (Which is possibly mightily cool)Doesn't look real but it is.  www.kinkadeguitars.co.uk/cubist-braqueedit - I don't know what gumby means except in a Monty Pythony way and I'm not sure about that really. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 18:57:37 GMT -5
Wasn't there a Gumby shaped Guild with a built in stand? It was like a kickstand. The Thunderbird. |
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Post by majorminor on Jan 17, 2014 19:10:07 GMT -5
My first real job between my sophomore and junior year in high school I worked in a fish cannery and made like 6 grand in 3 months. I bought one of these in 1981 or so. Dean Explorer. Kind of funny I pestered my mom to drive me to Anchorage with a pocket full of cash. Bought the guitar and big 4x10 Legend tube amp. Started a band with some friends and my buddy Randy showed up a month later with the same exact guitar and amp.  |
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Post by majorminor on Jan 17, 2014 19:11:29 GMT -5
Marty - you posted a thread awhile back about some band using glitter guitars with multiple pickups in very "Jetsonesque" motifs. What were those?
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 17, 2014 19:39:27 GMT -5
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Post by Doug on Jan 17, 2014 19:43:58 GMT -5
OK y'all have convinced me that I'm very very glad I never got into electric guitars, and therefore will never have to confess to owning those ugggggggggggly things. I've owned 3 electric guitars, two that were in pieces when I got them and I gave them away and a Tele. I even think Strats are bordering on ugly.   |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 20:23:05 GMT -5
Marty - you posted a thread awhile back about some band using glitter guitars with multiple pickups in very "Jetsonesque" motifs. What were those? Los Straitjackets and their DiPinto Galaxie guitars.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 20:41:08 GMT -5
Micro Frets Orbiter.  Micro Frets compensated nut, 30 years before Buzz Feiten.  |
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Post by mccoyblues on Jan 17, 2014 22:04:42 GMT -5
 Collectors refer to this as the "gumby" style headstock. Available only on the rare 1958 Gibson Moderne model but the guitar was never put in production until they "reissued" it in 1982. Gretsch is still making that gumby shaped guitar. |
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Post by Marshall on Jan 18, 2014 0:42:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2014 14:33:29 GMT -5
Another Italian, Bartolini.  Classic Gumby headstock  |
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Post by millring on Jan 18, 2014 14:41:48 GMT -5
That's pretty
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Post by Marshall on Jan 18, 2014 14:49:14 GMT -5
Dan Reeder made his own guitar  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2014 15:02:25 GMT -5
Dan Reeder made his own guitar The fact that he can play it means he did a decent job, but what the hell did he choose for wood? Or do I even want to know? |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 18, 2014 15:35:53 GMT -5
edit - I don't know what gumby means except in a Monty Pythony way and I'm not sure about that really. Gumby: |
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Post by Tamarack on Jan 18, 2014 15:38:48 GMT -5
I wondered who was going to post 60s-vintage Vox guitars, inspired by Gumby, geometry class, and frying pans, with odd damping and vibrato devices. During my time at Guitar Center I saw a Vox Phantom VI (I think that was the model) that some violent heretic had given an Eddie Van Halen paint job. With the collectible value destroyed, the owner sold it to a West Coast dealer who was going to part it out for restoration jobs.
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Post by dradtke on Jan 18, 2014 16:56:39 GMT -5
My favorite English professor in college was related somehow to the creator of Gumby. She had a Gumby and Pokey on her desk.
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