renderit
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He drove all the way there with Cars.
Randy Leonard ? or Elliot Easton (in 1980?)No. :lol
Guess again.
Randy Leonard ? or Elliot Easton (in 1980?)
Serendipity from the original post! 10th Dec 1985 was my 15th birthday, the very day I got my first electric guitar!! Alas a Gibson was out of my parents budget at the time, so it was a Westone instead.
I've enjoyed this thread immensely, many thanks for sharing Strings Jr.
Were you involved in any of the thinlines? The 81-85 335's were fantastic guitars, plenty of them built in Nashville. It seems like an interesting time, with the handover from Kalamazoo.
Cheers! :salude
Thanks!
I built hundreds of the 80's 335's. Beginning with the prototypes.
There were also 347's, Lucilles, ES Artist, ES Pro, pretty much the entire ES line-up.
It was a very interesting time. Especially when Tim Shaw, Jim Hutchins, and the rest
of the Kalamazoo guys came down. It was an honor for me to have built several
instruments with Kalamazoo serial numbers. I noticed in my ledger where I
built a 1978 Kalamazoo Super 400 in 1985.
I have a prototype 1979 Gibson ES Artist in Cherry Sunburst finish. Would you have any info or recollection of that?
Hi. I've got a lovely all black/nickel hardware '84 335. Has the Tim Shaw humbuckers with the gold "pat. appd. for" stickers on the top edge. 80834553 - was that one of yours?
Bought it secondhand in early 90's. I played lots of them in a vintage dealers shop, from late 60's ones onwards and this had something special about it's tone and feel.
I'm interested in the RD Custom that appears in many of your photos. Any story about the RD series? Did you work on them?
Appreciate any information.
Perry
Did you do any work on the pre-historic lp's? Any records on 6 0710 ??
love that this thread just keeps unravelling!
Hello Perry, All of the RD guitars and basses were made in Kalamazoo.
So, no, I didn't get the opportunity to work on any of them.
The RD in these photos came to Nashville with the rest of the leftover
stuff when Kalamazoo closed. We got killer deals on some very cool instruments.
Since you like RD's, here's a "leftover" that my Dad bought.
An RD with a Firebird neck.
It sounds amazing.
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