The Eclectic Electric Blog

1983? DAION 555 Headhunter Honeyburst (SOLD)

A cool rare one, Daion’s were made in the Hatsumoku factory and represent the very best Japan offered in the 80’s [ the best period]. Three cutaway body is well balanced. Beautiful honeyburst finish over the highly flamed tiger maple is to die for.  Strong humbuckers,  low action. The diamondstrings Pro-Shop recently dressed the frets to feel and play like new. A previous owner had a custom matching brass pickguard made for it . This can now be an option as Diamond strings has filled the small screwholes and touched them up to match the body color.  They are almost invisible [pickguard is included in the hardshell case].  These have been climbing in price steadily for a while now;  see why! Excellent condition with new hardcase. $1250.

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1966 Hagstrom I Black

In beautiful condition with plush lined soft shell case, $750

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1966 HAGSTROM I KENT Blue

Vintage! Wooden body covered by plastic top [with swimming pool radio grill that is strictly ornamental!!] vinyl back. No rips, tears or shrinkage. Two pickups, low action and the fastest neck ever. original Hagstrom case. EX, $850

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2001 Guild Dearmond M75 T champagne/silver sparkle

2001 Guild Dearmond M75 T champagne/silver sparkle
Very much like a Guild Bluesbird, with a bigsby style and in a totally cool silver sparkle finish.$495

2001 Dearmond M75T silver sparkle, same as above but perfect conditon ,$550

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2002 Dearmond S-73 XII Greenburst

Yikes, what a cool XII. Solid body with set neck. 1/78th nut. In like new condition. and in Greenburst! Plays like a dream with very low action; sounds clean and full like a great XII should. Why were these great Dearmonds discontinued.? Perhaps they were just too good for the money. Folks have found out that the newer ones fender has been offering lately ain’t great. . Try it and you’ll see what we mean. W/GB $675

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Benefit for Bob Janneck

Bob playing live 'on-stage' with Brian Lindsay and the Bootleggers

To be held at the Flipside Bar and Grill  saturday  April 11th 2pm till ……..

Ventures Mosrite Seafoam

One of the very last of the Reissue Japanese Mosrites. This one HAS the VENTURES logo, none of the current ones on the market do and from what I have gathered there won’t be any more with the logo. White pickguard ,and white pickups, white surrounds, awesome seafoam finish. I have owned and played many originals ones and have not played or heard one any better then this. Just awesome!! In virtually unplayed condition. w/HC $2,350

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Jimi’s Black Widow

Sourced from the Internet:

“In 1972, solid state amp pioneers Acoustic Control Corporation introduced thier first and only guitar and bass models, the Black Widow. Guitar maker Paul Barth, whos history includes work with Rickenbacker on thier first electrics, did the original designs for the Black Widow. Barths company Bartell made the first few Widows. They had smaller cutaways, a normal neck join, 20 or 22 fret neck, and normal humbuckers.

Acoustic’s Harvey Gerst then took that original design and revamped it, essentially taking it up a notch to a whole new kind of guitar. Gerst deepened the cutaways, and upped the fret count to 24. The pickups were changed to hotter, lap steel style single coils with lots of wire and lots of magnet. The controls were shifted up a bit so the volume was accessible while playing for swells. The bridge rollers were enlarged for more sustain. Weight was added to the body for a better balance. And the novel neck design was introduced.

Barth couldn’t keep up with the numbers Acoustic wanted, so the designs were taken to Matsumoto Moko in Japan. At the time, they were producing some of the finest guitars coming out of Asia, that still rival the American made stuff. The majority of Black Widows out there in the world are Matsumokus.

Then at some point (after Harvey left, so details are missing) Acoustic brought production back to the states, and put it in the capable hands of Semie Mosley, whose Mosrite guitars already shared some design elements with the Widow. The fact that Paul and Semie both worked together at Rickenbacker is no surprise. Its my understanding that a few things changed back to a more normal design after this transition, namely the neck join. Shortly after Mosley took on the Widows, he stopped.

At some other point, Paul Barth took his design to Hohner. To date, I’ve only seen Hohner Widow basses. The overall shape is the same as the Acoustic, and they have the carved top like them as well. The major differences are f-holes on a chambered body, two pickups (on the bass), and an option to have it in natural maple finish with a maple fretboard. Also, while (to my knowledge) Acoustic only made fretted basses, the Hohners were primarily fretless (with one fretted one seen). Smaller differences are the black pad on the back, and bridge/tailpiece design. They have “Hohner” on the headstock and a label in the f-hole stating “Mfg. by Bartell of California”.

All in all its “wildly guessed” that no more than 1000 of these guitars were made for Acoustic. With the fewest being Barths, and no more than a couple hundred being Mosleys.  But due to company hand changes, production hand changes, etc, its really hard to tell. We may start cataloging them here, see how many there are in the world, and how many variations.

Mark Schlipper – July 2004″

Jimi playing an Acoustic Black Widow