https://www.myrareguitars.com/roll-out-the-barrel-and-well-have-a-barrel-of-fun All about rare & vintage guitars, guitar amps, fx pedals and more! Sun, 09 May 2021 21:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 https://www.myrareguitars.com/roll-out-the-barrel-and-well-have-a-barrel-of-fun#comment-1236719 Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:40:52 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=8029#comment-1236719 Thanks for this information. I have a black plastic\over wood body with the 3 pickups\with controls on the pickquard and the vibrato arm. It is missing the neck and bridge saddle unit. I have been trying to find out what guitar model\vendor guitar this is for a long time. Under the pickguard there is the # 49 which is scratched on the body and on the bottom side of the pickguard. I plan on adding a parts neck which I have but it’s not from an Avanti and get this guitar working again. Can you supply me any other information. The dials and pickup selector don’t match your pictures but the body and everything else matches. How do you add a picture in this comment? Please let me know via email and I will email you some pictures for your library data base.

]]> https://www.myrareguitars.com/roll-out-the-barrel-and-well-have-a-barrel-of-fun#comment-1235634 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:03:59 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=8029#comment-1235634 Nothing wrong with a bit of plastic bling!. I love the look of the Itallia guitars. And what about the Maccaferri hollow body plastic jazz guitars ( all plastic, no wood ), with a plastic covered aluminium neck. He decided to make an affordable totally consistent version of his expensive wooden models. Also made plastic violins and apparently made his fortune out of plastic pegs.
Keep up the good work. Les

]]> https://www.myrareguitars.com/roll-out-the-barrel-and-well-have-a-barrel-of-fun#comment-1235545 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:02:47 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=8029#comment-1235545 A fascinating article, though the use of plastics in guitar making goes back to before the 60’s. Some models from the National guitar range had plastic mother-of-pearl covers on their headstocks (affectionately known as mother-of-toilet-seat or MOTS) and Mario Maccaferri built a range of classical and steel string guitar entirely out of plastic. Incidentally, the Avanti you feature reminds me a bit of the Bartolini Hubert Sumlin used to play back in the early 60’s (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIzF2uC9MM)

]]> https://www.myrareguitars.com/roll-out-the-barrel-and-well-have-a-barrel-of-fun#comment-1235473 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:12:22 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=8029#comment-1235473 Just look at the size of that whammy!

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