Comments on: A Sharp Venture (1968 Guyatone LG-350T Sharp 5 Electric Guitar)

By: greg cadman

greg cadman — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:05:17 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pygl6BXbuZk

Here is the band the guitar is named for in action with these guitars.

Eleki!

By: Davey Boab

Davey Boab — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:56:15 +0000

PLEASE MAKE THIS EASTWOOD!

a well made copy of this would be a nice option to a contemporary jaguar, and I’d certainly buy one.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:35:32 +0000

The Mosrite is really more of a flipped-over Jazzmaster, but I’m just picking the fly poop out of the pepper. My brother recently came up with a modern counterpart to the Guyatone called a DiPinto Galaxy 4. Silver sparkle paint, cheesy plastic switches, gumby body, gold marble pickguard, FOUR pickups, Jazzmaster trem, the works! Very George Jetson! The guys in Los Straight jackets have matching Galaxies! Unfortunately, previous owner had done some shoddy mods, so I took on the task of repairs. Removed enough excess solder to mint a silver dollar! Hideous! Plays and sounds pretty good, now! Looks great!

By: Kerry Dean

Kerry Dean — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:18:44 +0000

Pretty good article about Munetaka Inoue & His Sharp Five: http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/bunnys-sharp-five/

They also have a couple of MP3s to listen to and/or download.

By: Lance Kirsch

Lance Kirsch — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:11:40 +0000

These were the guitars Guyatone made for the Sharp 5, which were a fantastic japanese eleki band influenced by the ventures. Nobuhiro Mine was their lead guitarist. Check them out if you can, their best albums are Haru No Umi, Classical Sensation, and Battle of the Koga Melody.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:58:52 +0000

You didn’t tell us how it sounds……

By: Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:33:25 +0000

Fantastic looking guitar! Here’s a site with great detailed pictures of a primo LG-350T DX,the three pickup version,that sold for $1820 on eBay about eight months ago.Click on them to enlarge. Beautiful high quality workmanship on these guitars.I would love to hear what they sound like.

http://guitargarage.blogspot.com/2008/11/japanese-surf-mania-guyatone-lg-350t.html