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| Well, here she is again. NOS Mosrite from 1987. I'm still speechless. No wonder I have hundreds of guitars
from every decade except the 1980's. What more could I possibly get? This baby needs her own page. Well, I have a few other
1980's guitars, so perhaps a whole row instead of a full page. Yes, front row. Here you go. Can I get you anything else,
Sweetheart? Popcorn? Licorice? Please, enjoy the show.... |
| BELOW: OK, so here we have some non-Mosrites for you. First up, Aria Set Neck double cutaway.
This guitar has many charateristics of the 80's guitars. Switchable humbuckers with their own little toggle.
This was a common theme. Set Neck for sustain matched with a variety of tone controls though multiple pickups
and wiring configurations. If you did not play a synthesisor or disco, then you played solo guitar. Set neck,
tone controls. That fits the bill. Similar in the Lotus. Set neck with a variety of tone controls. The other
issue in the eighties was the post-lawsuit guitars. "If we can't copy Gibson and Fender, what the hell
are we going to do?" Next to the Lotus are a couple of Washburn Eagles that were brought to my attention
from a visitor to this page, John Trentes
from Cleveland, Ohio. It seems that the Lotus is a copy (and a pretty damn good one at that!) of the late 1970's Washburn
Eagle (that is John's Eagle next to the Lotus). I found a picture of another one in the ABBA Museum in Stockholm. The only difference is the
Washburn Eagle has some nifty push/pull pots for switching to single coil mode where the Lotus added some mini-toggle
switches. One of these days I'll need to get some Mother of Pearl and fix my guitar up with the ABBA neck inserts....
Right. Thanks John! |
| Aria Set Neck |
Dixon Strat Variation |
Lotus Set Neck |
Washburn Eagle |
Washburn Eagle - ABBA |
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