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Topic: What guitar is this?
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Registered: Aug 2004
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posted August 12, 2004 01:08 AM
  
This is a photo of PJ Harvey on the Tonight show on 8/11/04... I have to know what kind of guitar this dude is using, I've never seen anything like it before.Link to photo:
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/CFW/details_Pop.aspx?iid=51161282&cdi=0 Anyone? Thanks! IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 01:41 AM
I'm not taking any oaths here, but it looks like a Gretsch. IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 02:23 AM
nah i don't think its a gretch. you can kinda see the name and it looks to long for it to say gretch. It looks like jack white's guitar. i forget what its called. japanese guitar.IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 05:12 AM
There have been many odd guitars made back in the '60's and '70's, and my bet is that it's some vintage brand like Silvertone. Originally made by Sears, actually.Keep lookin' around, perhaps email the band about it or something.  -Brendan  IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 07:42 AM
it's an Avalone.IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 10:57 AM
that looks like the white stripes guitarrists guitar escept its white. IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 04:45 PM
Teisco? or Telesco?but it sorta does look like it reads Gretsch IP: Logged |
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posted August 12, 2004 07:39 PM
It looks like he's playing an Airline Resoglas with a Bigsby Trem. Vintage guitar, good luck finding one.IP: Logged |
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posted August 13, 2004 08:34 AM
looks similar to a Metropolitan
http://www.metropolitanguitars.com/ IP: Logged |
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posted August 13, 2004 08:36 AM
http://italiaguitars.com/ Italia also has a similar style.  IP: Logged |
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posted August 13, 2004 09:38 AM
I think that's Josh Klinghoffer. I'm not sure of what kind of guitar that is but maybe you could use his name on google or something to find out what he plays. It's a beautiful guitar.IP: Logged |
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posted August 13, 2004 04:25 PM
http://www.cynthiaharrison.com/pictures/Jack_White_(WinCE).jpg i think thats it IP: Logged |
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posted August 13, 2004 06:53 PM
Hmmm, I messed that one up, lol. Anyway, I believe the guitar is a Valco Airline JB Hutto Jetsons Res-o-glass resoglass guitar. But then again I could be wrong.......again. IP: Logged |
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posted August 14, 2004 12:04 PM
Okay, I'm wrong too...it's not an avalone. The dude from the white stripes is holding one on the cover of the May '04 guitar player mag. I think it's some kind of forty year old Montgomery Ward special.IP: Logged |
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posted August 14, 2004 01:25 PM
Thanks for all the responses. From what I can tell, it's the 65-66 Montgomery Ward Valco Airline Fiberglass 3-Pickup special (which came with a Bigsby Trem).Here is what VintAxe (www.vintaxe.com) says about it: This instrument was Montgomery Ward's top of the line electric solidbody guitar in the mid 60's. Identified as the "Professional Vibrato Triple Pickup" guitar in the Montgomery Ward catalog, they were "designed exclusively for Wards" by Valco. Similar to other Valco res-o-glas guitars, the Airline is constructed from two halves of a fiberglass shell around a narrow, solid wood core. The pickups, controls, and tailpiece are all anchored to the wooden core and a bead of vinyl hides the joint where the shells meet along the edge. Although the three pickups look like humbuckers, they are in fact single coils. Each pickup is controlled by a set of volume and tone knobs and there is also a master volume that allows the player to control overall output without disturbing the volume relationship among the individual pickups. The three-way switch selects treble and bass alone or in unison. The neck has a truss rod although there is no easy method of adjustment. The fretboard is bound rosewood with side dots, block inlays and 21 nickel-silver frets. Interestingly, the fret slots were cut after applying the celluloid binding, so the ends of the frets are exposed through the binding; leave it to Valco to buck common luthiery practices of the day. The headstock is the "Gumby" style with Kluson tuners. The tailpiece is a Bigsby vibrato unit and it has a tune-o-matic bridge setup. This guitar sold for $200 in 1966, a pretty pricey instrument considering you could buy the Jack White two-pickup model for $100. And here is a photo of it from VintAxe:
http://www.vintaxe.com/cgi-bin/vintaxe_viewer.pl?airlinejetson_white&american_guitar_airlinejetson_white IP: Logged |
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