Comments on: Ugly Mugs No. 3: Walk, Don’t Run (Vintage 1967 Guyatone LG-160T Electric Guitar)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 24 May 2019 01:12:52 +0000

Can you send me the a picture for the electronic? I have one and I want to restore it.

Thanks!

By: raul

raul — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:57:07 +0000

I have that exact model . what is the street price of this?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:19:29 +0000

Hi Ola,I want to record a deenct demo with my band in a few weeks and this tutorial you have on here is awesome I was just wondering if you could post a video on how to start the logic file from scratch. Like what basic settings you use before you press record.Thanks,Arjun

By: Archtop Eddy

Archtop Eddy — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:32:40 +0000

Congrats on a great article and how you show that this guitar could just as easily be considered one of the most beautiful guitars built! I like your Kabuki references (and your excellent explanation of historical and cultural factors). Much as Kabuki is so Japanese in appearance, movement and ideals, you’ve noted so is this guitar in it’s own way. Looking at the horizontal picture of the guitar, the body shape has a flow and dance movement much like a Japanese dancer or the flow of the ink strokes in a Kanji character. The exaggerated horn on the lower bout not only excites in a phallic way, but provides a wink and a nod to the Japanese Oni red demon seen in Noh masks. From the Gumby-shaped headstock to the exaggerated pickguard and pickup placement, each element expands the limits of abstraction within this design and yet keeps it all working as a balanced and singular visual statement. While Leo Fender may have designed the ultimate in form to function in the Stratocaster design, and while Mosrite may have flipped that design to create visual, sexual excitement (much as Hendrix did flipping over a righty guitar), this Guyatone takes those concepts and bring a new twist to these ideas through 1960’s modern Japanese aesthetics. Much like a good painting, it gets your attention then keeps pulling you. As you examine its individual parts and shape, your larger eye sees the whole image again and you experience a renewed appreciation of the total form. Then you start looking at it’s parts and shapes again — and you start the visual exploration again…

By: M. Alan Dean

M. Alan Dean — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:09:30 +0000

I had a Guyatone guitar, once. My late brother bought it for me, in 1967, when he was stationed on Okinawa.

It was a Fender clone with three single coils in a stamped metal pickguard and a vibrato. It also had an additional stamped metal piece with 4 slide switches, and a thumbwheel tone control, above the pickguard. Not sure why a 3 pickup guitar would have 4 slide switches. Never did figure out what the 4th switch did. It was a nice playing, good sounding guitar. Had terrific action on it.

I actually still have it. Scattered around the house in pieces. Neck here, body over there, pickups somewhere… Like the dumb kid I was, at the time (I’m not a kid anymore), I took it apart and modified it. Took it apart again, some years later to painted over the original (nice) tobacco sunburst finish. Took it apart again, some years later still (to remove crappy paint job) and never got it back together.

Maybe I should do something about that.

By: John Williams

John Williams — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:00:34 +0000

Shouldn’t it actually read “These two pickups can function as two single-coils, or, using the sliding switch, one humbucker?” Or am I missing something? Any way, another great submission from the author.

By: Pattern_Seeker

Pattern_Seeker — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:17:53 +0000

I have one of these, in a solid red colour. I love it. Very ruff, but perfect for some punk blues.

By: Double D

Double D — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:34:47 +0000

Strangely, I just posted on a Burns Bison article about my long lost Yamaha SG-3 12 string which had the same wiring scheme and pickup configuration as this awesome Guyatone. I have a double-8 Guyatone lap steel from the same era and it sounds fantastic. Beautifully glassy and robust tones from those extra-wide single coils!