Elk Guitars: A History (1960s Japanese guitars)

[windmill]

no No No

WE WANT to see the pics !!!

Show us the pics and we will tell you all we know !

[lunarlupus]

Cool,

just trying to work out how to add pics.
apologies for my novice approach. I don't do blogs or have pics on clouds etc; just on my pc.

[windmill]

Cool,

just trying to work out how to add pics.
apologies for my novice approach. I don't do blogs or have pics on clouds etc; just on my pc.

Have a look in the Questions and Comments sub-forum of the Sound Board section.

There is a thread at the top all about how to post pictures

[lunarlupus]

[lunarlupus]

Woo !
Thanks windmill !!!
Ok; back to the guitar. I know it's not an ELK, but i'm pretty sure it's 60s and looks to be hand made in many aspects.
I'm not an expert on Jaguars and have never owned one , but have played a few here and there.
The body seems pretty accurate, but is quite heavy due to the solid hardwood.
The neck is super slim... not sure of the wood, but it's very pale in colour.
The fret-wire is not your average type and looks to be just a solid rectangular piece of wire, which in this case works in my favour as it has been filed down pretty low; means i can still file a crown on it without getting too messy.
So the changes i've decided to make at this stage: take the fretboard back to original timber as it has been painted black and this was chipped away in a few places. The original timber is a reddish colour and could well be the same material as the body (some kind of Japanese hardwood ??)
Replace the tuners with some quality Japanese Gotoh 'Kluson' style , which i had lying around. The originals are very poor and reverse-cog.
I've also added a buzz-stop bar to the tremolo as the brake angle was pretty mild. Actually the tremolo that it came with looks like a more recent addition, so i wonder whether it might have actually had a cool 'Fender' one originally ?

I'm working on the neck today and hope to finish it and post some updated photos very soon.

[lunarlupus]

[windmill]

Thanks for posting the pictures !!

It is an interesting take on a jag

How does it sound ?

Obviously an intonable bridge would be high on the list of mods to be made.

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to give you some good advice.

[lunarlupus]

It sounds great!
quite a few tonal variations as you would expect.