Hallmark 60's Custom

[jtr654]

Poptone the pic with you playing the Wilshire is that at 1st Ave small room.

[eltuce]

I wish I had the kind of income to afford a custom guitar. I checked out Roger's work...very nice indeed. If I ever did go down that road, Tym's Crestwood Deluxe/Mk II hybrid would be hard to pass up (even though I'm not crazy about his headstock logo).

The Wilshire I got isn't a collector's piece by any stretch. It plays and sounds fantastic, however. Re-necked and refinished, by someone who knew what they were doing. For the price ($400) I couldn't pass it up. Sorry this pic isn't so great:



...and I think I see a Bigsby B5 or Maestro short vibrola in that guitar's future.

So is that one of the later 70's Japanese ones or was it cheap because of the refin? Also wondering because it doesn't have the batwing headstock but the earlier ones didn't have that either. I have one of the 70's ones sitting under my dresser waiting to be brought back to life. It's a mess, bad refin so I need to fix that, also needs a pick up, frets are pretty much shot, and it looks like someone took a chisel to the neck to make the junky pickup fit in the neck position. Sheeesh, some people!

[jtr654]

Eltuce This one from when I saw it on Craiglist might be a tranision model the Headstock looks like a early Crestwood. So they just used up the rest of they necks they had in stock. But yes the refin job was not Pro level. Not a 70's model more early mid 60's.

[poptones]

So is that one of the later 70's Japanese ones or was it cheap because of the refin? Also wondering because it doesn't have the batwing headstock but the earlier ones didn't have that either. I have one of the 70's ones sitting under my dresser waiting to be brought back to life. It's a mess, bad refin so I need to fix that, also needs a pick up, frets are pretty much shot, and it looks like someone took a chisel to the neck to make the junky pickup fit in the neck position. Sheeesh, some people!

The guy I bought it from dated it from the electronics to 64 or 65. No serial number because of the re-neck. I showed it to a guitar nerd friend of mine, and he suspects the neck is a 70s Gibson. Whoever did the re-neck and refinish did a pretty good job. Like I said above, it plays and sounds fantastic.

[eltuce]

It looks great, you got a pretty sweet deal there!

[poptones]

Poptone the pic with you playing the Wilshire is that at 1st Ave small room.

Turf Club.

[jtr654]

Poptone the other Wilshire on Craiglist is actually a Crestwood your's is more stock than it is. It still listed on the Mpls. Craiglist way to modded to get the price he's asking for it.

[JohnnySonic]

Wow!! Super nice guitar! And the Wilshire also!

If (or more like WHEN) i get a Hallmark. This will be the finish.
Totally Fred "Sonic" Smith. =)
What'd you pay for it? Wondering if you had to pay extra since white on white isn't a standard option.

Boy am I jealous of people on this forum...

If I remember correctly, when I asked Bob about getting the white pickguard, he offered it at no extra charge. I got the tortoise one as well, so I did pay for an extra pickguard in the end.

Very cool.
Hey If you don't mind...
Can you link to a page where you can find more pictures of it or something like that?
Would be greatly appreciated!

[poptones]

Very cool.
Hey If you don't mind...
Can you link to a page where you can find more pictures of it or something like that?
Would be greatly appreciated!

If you search "Double Bird" on Flickr, some more live photos will come up-but the photo I posted earlier seemed to offer the clearest view of the guitar. Sorry, I don't own a digital camera otherwise I'd post some photos of the guitar myself.

[jfine]

I'm waiting for a case too--actually, I'm waiting for the guitar too, as I asked Bob not to ship it without a case. I ordered it a little over a week ago, and Bob told me the cases would be available in about two weeks, so I hope to know more by the end of this week.
Poptone--that's a cool Epi. Looks like the refin and reneck was done well. I've actually never seen or heard of an asymmetric-bodied US Epiphone solidbody with a 3-on-a-side headstock--the older symmetrical solidbodies had that feature, and I think they went to the batwing headstock at the same time as the asymmetrical body style. The first Epiphone catalog I ever saw was in '64, and the solidbodies had the later body style and batwing headstock by then.