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Awhile ago in the bargain bin of a Houston guitar store I picked up this mystery thing for $30.



It had been stripped of its original finish, on the back even sanded through the first layer of plywood in a patch, and gutted of most hardware, but for $30 fuck it. It'd be fun and nice practice w/ fretwork and all that. I wound up refretting it, changing tuners, adding pickups and it turned out to be a pretty great guitar that I enjoyed playing.



When the project was over I wound up selling it to a friend in need, who got rid of it in one way or another, but every now and then I kinda miss it. I'd pick up another but I have no clue what brand it is! Any ideas? Pretty straight up 335-style semi-hollow with a set-neck. Probably the most defining thing about it is the headstock shape but i'm drawing a blank there.

Samick?

Maggieo wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:38 am

Samick?

I cant find a Samick with the same headstock. In looking for one though I did find this which looks rather similar in shape but I cant read what it says.

A reverse image serach with this picture gives me the name Antoria, which seems coherent with the pointed headstock, from here.

RIGHT FUCKING ON. I tried the reverse image search but didnt get much. Then i was trying "Antonia", "Antonio", "Astoria" hahaha.

It was a fun search !
For reverse image search i often use Yandex, it's the Russian alternative to Google, I have no interest in using it for any other purpose but I've often found it more powerful for image search for some reason.

Was going to say looks like an Antoria rockstar I had in the early 90s

It's hard to say because I don't know enough about it. But I think it's a regular electric six-string guitar. But it obviously needs a guitar killswitch button to change modes while playing. The pluses of magnetoelectronics are to reduce to zero the probability of "winding up" due to feedback. The main disadvantage is the tonal coloration of the sound, which is quite far from the real, live sound of the acoustics. For this reason, musical engineers developed another type of transducer - piezoelectric.

laminetrack1 wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:08 pm

It's hard to say because I don't know enough about it. But I think it's a regular electric six-string guitar.

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