Can anyone ID this offset-style guitar?

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Can anyone ID this offset-style guitar?

Post by maaaaaaaaaaark » Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:29 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShXDNA ... rW.Preston

The white guitar (i.e. not the Peavey T-30). Kind of looks like a Telemaster/Meteora hybrid.

First visible at the 40-ish second mark if you've no patience for this sort of music (I think they're excellent).

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Re: Can anyone ID this offset-style guitar?

Post by Ceylon » Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:38 am

My best bet is a modified Aria 1532t. Body shape as seen at around the 50-second mark gives it away. Those all came routed for vibratos, though, so maybe this has been filled and adapted for a Tele bridge, or maybe some other brand had the same body shape with flat-mounted bridges.
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Re: Can anyone ID this offset-style guitar?

Post by maaaaaaaaaaark » Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:06 am

Wow, I think you're right! The body shape looks spot on. Headstock shape is different, so maybe the neck has been swapped out.

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Re: Can anyone ID this offset-style guitar?

Post by MayTheFuzzBeWithYou » Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:57 am

Yes, Aria 1532 (or something based on it) would have been my first guess too. I just looked at their newish "Retro" series to see if they'd offer a Tele Bridge version of it - but didn't find any. So I kept watching and discovered something at min 1:55 (https://youtu.be/JShXDNAUej8?t=115) - where you can more or less clearly see the marks of the old vibrato screws - or some very unusual symmetric chips! :-P

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Re: Can anyone ID this offset-style guitar?

Post by maaaaaaaaaaark » Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:51 am

Excellent detective work around these parts!

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