My '62 Jag

Discussion of vintage Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Bass VIs, Electric XIIs and any other offset-waist instruments.
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Re: My '62 Jag

Post by LucyR » Wed Apr 01, 2020 3:44 am

Acidhouse wrote:
Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:17 am
Wow really nice couple of axes. $200 for the Jag? I often kick myself for not looking for a vintage guitar back then. Instead I was all about guitars that were shiny and pointy.
Actually in this 1989 My Bloody Valentine concert Bilinda Butcher is playing what looks like a Hamer or Jackson, instead of the obligatory Jag/Jazzmaster; it's kind of jarring to see!

If you search Google Images for 'Bigsby 12 string' you'll find a few more examples like mine, for instance I came across two on guitars by Australian company Maton, here's one of them:

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Gibson bought out Bigsby in 1966 and I think this look is peculiar to that era - here's a '66 SG:

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Examples from just a few years later seem to always look different, they don't have that kind of faded look to the print. It's heartening to find an example on a real Gibson - as I said, I always wondered if mine wasn't a knockoff.

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