Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).
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Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by Superfuzz » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:05 pm

........NO WAIST CONTOUR!
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Sorry for the bad pic , no light today..this is of a friend of mine, he gave it to me just for a little repair (a pot has gone loose)..it's a Jim Reed, a clone of a vox teardrop..price paid about 250€..it's probabily made of poor wood, but it has some nice kent armstrong PUs that come with cloth wire, a Bigsby (Higly unuseable cuz it's strung with .9s) , roller bridge and a modern fretboard (flat radius and big frets..)
And of course it's cool as hell!!!
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BTW it's not bad at all, it's making me think about bigger frets on my JM too..really, I could try a replacement neck with medium jumbos..mmmm
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by dain » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:38 pm

like i always say...vox teardrops are so offset they are just OFF!

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that's a cutie...
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by 1946dodge » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:50 pm

They look like eggplants stuck on a pole.
They are interesting though.
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by greyman » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:57 pm

I like them alright, but I think it really takes the right kind of person to play one.

I am not that kind of person.  :'(
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by northern_dirt » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:09 pm

http://www.phantomguitars.com/

Im seriously thinking of picking up one of those 12 strings..
either teardrop or phantom.. you know for sitting around
barefooted, while incense burns all around me..
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by Superfuzz » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:14 pm

I like the Phantom!
Fuzztones.. :-*

Even if Rudy now plays a gretsch.. :-\
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by VintagePete » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:57 pm

I would simply call it OFF !!!
Never liked this type of body.Not practical.Non-conventional.
Keep on !!!!
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Re: Offset or non offset- waist guitar?

Post by the older brother » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:37 am

Superfuzz wrote: I like the Phantom!
+1!
Someone knows where I can find the nearest woodchipper to throw my pieces of junk into?
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