Vintage/Semi-Vintage Guitar Gallery

[abyssinianson]

Chum, looks like a Ventures Mosrite knockoff. UNivox made something like yours a while back, maybe they were made around the same time?

[Chum]

Hi abysinnianson....

I agree, it has the Mosrite look to it.....  actually, the only info i have been able to get was from an article on the net entitled "Guitar Collecting On A Budget" (the link is: http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?guitarsindex or try to google Bruno Conqueror).  Here, I'm quoting the pertinent portions of the article:

"Gutar Collecting On A Budget"
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The 1960's - Japanese instruments

Arai/Aria
In my opinion Arai produced some of the highest quality instruments coming out of Japan in the late 60's to early 70's. Their guitars were sold under the brand names of Arai, Arai Diamond, Aria, and Diamond. Arai also supplied guitars and components for guitars branded Arita, Bruno, Conrad, Domino, Lyle, Maxi-Tone, Orpheous, Pan, Univox and others.

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Bruno Conqueror
This Gibson ES335 copy is a very high quality instrument for a budget guitar. It is fully bound with both front and back made from a single panel of wood. Note that even the f holes have binding on this one. The single coil pickups are hot and tend to feedback at stage volume but it is a great instrument for recording. I love the deep red marbling in the pickguards. I've seen similar guitars branded Conrad, Lyle, Orpheous, and Univox.

I have tried looking through posts at the Aria/Matsumoku sites, but i've had no luck finding info.....

Well, thanks for looking......  I'm on the lookout for one or TEN more of these    Despite the goofy bolt on neck, this guitar actually plays well and sounds quite bluesy......  Sounds quite similar to a P90 equipped semi (to my ears, anyway)

Chum

[glassjaw_jc]

BB, baka gusto mo magbenta ng isang P-Bass 

[jack in a vox]

 

[Letour]

Don't.............. Stop............

Don't...... Stop......

Don't...Stop...

Don't.. Stop..

Please Don't Stop with the Pictures 

[jack in a vox]

addresses next please. 

[abyssinianson]

Hi abysinnianson....

I agree, it has the Mosrite look to it.....  actually, the only info i have been able to get was from an article on the net entitled "Guitar Collecting On A Budget" (the link is: http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?guitarsindex or try to google Bruno Conqueror).  Here, I'm quoting the pertinent portions of the article:

"Gutar Collecting On A Budget"
xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx
The 1960's - Japanese instruments

Arai/Aria
In my opinion Arai produced some of the highest quality instruments coming out of Japan in the late 60's to early 70's. Their guitars were sold under the brand names of Arai, Arai Diamond, Aria, and Diamond. Arai also supplied guitars and components for guitars branded Arita, Bruno, Conrad, Domino, Lyle, Maxi-Tone, Orpheous, Pan, Univox and others.

xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx     xxx

Bruno Conqueror
This Gibson ES335 copy is a very high quality instrument for a budget guitar. It is fully bound with both front and back made from a single panel of wood. Note that even the f holes have binding on this one. The single coil pickups are hot and tend to feedback at stage volume but it is a great instrument for recording. I love the deep red marbling in the pickguards. I've seen similar guitars branded Conrad, Lyle, Orpheous, and Univox.

I have tried looking through posts at the Aria/Matsumoku sites, but i've had no luck finding info.....

Well, thanks for looking......  I'm on the lookout for one or TEN more of these    Despite the goofy bolt on neck, this guitar actually plays well and sounds quite bluesy......  Sounds quite similar to a P90 equipped semi (to my ears, anyway)

Chum

Good luck! I am on the lookout for older Univox stuff myself. I currently have a couple old Univox and Hagstrom guitars that I love for old lo-fi sounding guitar stuff and am very happy that, at the very least, Hagstrom is back:)

[blue buddha]

blue buddha -- beautiful guitars.  how'd you get hold of those?  picked 'em up over the years through gigs, friends, relatives, etc.?

I guess the bug just bit me a little earlier than most folks my age, so I started getting into these things as a kid in the late 70's or so. That really was a time when many of these were just looked upon as little more than used utility instruments, so they were plentiful, cheap (in light of today, almost criminally so), and nobody wanted them very much.    Everybody just wanted the latest models. Didn't get many from friends or relatives really..... mostly from shops and individuals who were just getting rid of them in order to replenish stock space or itching to get "new and improved" models. 

The pattern was fairly simple: knowing the music, knowing the sound in the music, figuring out what made the sound, looking for what made the sound, being curious enough to understand the ingredients in it, saving up for it, and not selling (didn't have to 'cuz many of these things were so reasonable then).

Whew, after Blue's posts, i'm almost ashamed to post this.... anyway, here's something i got really really cheap back in 2004...... 

A Bruno Conqueror semi......  thinline, bolt-on neck......

Chum

Chum -- never be ashamed of anything you like, or anything you like that you may think is just cheap or worthless. If you see or hear merit in it, that's all that matters. The upside of such an attitude is that regardless of whether it appreciates in value or desireability, you will always be a happy camper playing, hearing, or looking at it. To you, it'll always be a pretty cool guitar and you'll be glad to play and own it.

Will try to take pics of a few more and post them.

[toybitz]

awwww...you're so kind.  you bless me with big heart.

sorry wasn't there last Fri.  I needed to catch a lot of sleep.

Chum -- never be ashamed of anything you like, or anything you like that you may think is just cheap or worthless. If you see or hear merit in it, that's all that matters. The upside of such an attitude is that regardless of whether it appreciates in value or desireability, you will always be a happy camper playing, hearing, or looking at it. To you, it'll always be a pretty cool guitar and you'll be glad to play and own it.

Will try to take pics of a few more and post them.

[balta]

A few re-hashed pics of some stuff....

....Vintage....

'57 special
'59 special
'60 special
'59 6120
'63 tele
'63 p-bass
'64 strat
'69 thinline

....and Semi-Vintage.

'71 goldtop
'72 custom
'72 tele
'79 335 TD
'79 175

...holy mother....

if i get even just any 1 of those guitars i'd die, scrifice my life for guitar and live rock and roll forever...

mister blue budda you have the power to change my life... please do!!!
hahahaha

[mikep]

BB, great collection.  Show us some more.  Best regards,

[balta]

BB, great collection.  Show us some more.  Best regards,

MIKE! please bless us and show us your personal collection!!!

[blue buddha]

Whups sorry. wrong post.

[toybitz]

BB,

nice story.

did you ever acquire any pointy guitars?  Ibanez?  Kramer? any?...

[feraskulio]

honga classic V's naman!!!! 

[tito rens]

I love this thread! 

[blue buddha]

BB,

nice story.

did you ever acquire any pointy guitars?  Ibanez?  Kramer? any?...

Sorry bout that -- moved that story over to the "brief history/timeline" thread where it belonged.

But re: pointy guitars: I have one pointy guitar, an Ibanez RGA121, but that's it. I did get into Ibanez in a big way, but not the pointy/gumby kind. Have a modest group of 70's ibbys that are superb axes in every way. Will see if I can post pics of those. I've tried many of the pointy axes (some supremely pointy) but never really got into the aesthetics of it. I guess I'm much more of a "grabber" than a "flyer" as a guitar player, and kind of a fuddy duddy with regards guitar design and musical preferences (a "digger" rather than a "shredder".... a "hippie" rather than a "punk", "alien", "metalhead" or "goth"). I somehow associate the pointy stuff with the advent of MTV and the heavy emphasis on visuals, and somehow, I've always landed on the side of stuff associated with a time when the music just stood on its own two feet. That's really not meant as a criticism, just a personal preference -- hope that doesn't offend anyone. But it does explain what I ended up with. 

[oloc]

very well said sir BB, hanep talaga collection nyo... the best! 

just wondering, ngayon po ba do you still get interested in the new models of guitars na lumalabas considering what you already got ?

[mikep]

MIKE! please bless us and show us your personal collection!!!

Can't really show anything here because I kinda started getting guitars late.  My oldest would be a 1972 Yamaha Acoustic Dreadnought which I bought new on November, 1972.  The next one is a 79 Precision Bass, again bought new, modified with BadAss Bridge and D'Marzio pups which I used to use in doing jingles way back.  In terms of guitars, my Gibson LP Standard 78 bought new in 1980, would be my sort of vintage.  Again, I used this guitar extensively in doing commercial jingles (which was ork for me then).  I have, however, a US Vintage re-issue Fender Strat 57 made in 1988, bought in 1989.  Aside from those, my guitars are mostly 90's and 2000 models, all bought brand new - no vintage ones.  During the 80s and 90s, I was concentrating more in recording equipment and outboard gear.

This would be my Gibson Double Cut Special with P90s, the "wannabe" (and no match) to BBs original Gibson LP Specials.

[inigo]

'59 special
'60 special

Gibson double-cuts are the sex.... definitely the sex...

[stompmoko]

sir BB, hands down whenever you post your gears.. let's just rename this the "request from blue buddha the gear you want to be posted" thread

[balta]

MIKE! please bless us and show us your personal collection!!!

Can't really show anything here because I kinda started getting guitars late.  My oldest would be a 1972 Yamaha Acoustic Dreadnought which I bought new on November, 1972.  The next one is a 79 Precision Bass, again bought new, modified with BadAss Bridge and D'Marzio pups which I used to use in doing jingles way back.  In terms of guitars, my Gibson LP Standard 78 bought new in 1980, would be my sort of vintage.  Again, I used this guitar extensively in doing commercial jingles (which was ork for me then).  I have, however, a US Vintage re-issue Fender Strat 57 made in 1988, bought in 1989.  Aside from those, my guitars are mostly 90's and 2000 models, all bought brand new - no vintage ones.  During the 80s and 90s, I was concentrating more in recording equipment and outboard gear.

This would be my Gibson Double Cut Special with P90s, the "wannabe" (and no match) to BBs original Gibson LP Specials.

still a thing of beauty!!!

sir mike! i hope i get to at least try it on the next workshop hihi *hint* *hint* haha

[Chum]

Very nice Les Paul double cutaways 

Here's a recent purchase and current project of mine..... a Yamaha Pulser Bass 400.... Obviously a copy of the venerable Fender Precision Bass........ 



I guess this would qualify as semi-vintage.....  From what i have read in Vintage Guitar Magazine, they first came out in 1977.....



The logo in script..... 





The body is ash, the heavy type.......  Pickup is stock.....  I'm still cleaning up this bass......  Needs a string change.....



Thanks for looking.....

Chum

[stompmoko]

my contribution.. all semi vintage i guess, all within the 70's
greco LP standard, yamaha studio lord, greco LP custom

[Chum]

wow, very nice.......  Love the standard.......  Is that really a reddish tint?  Any chance of a pic of the standard's back?