1960s Grammer Guitar Copy

[79D25MMan]

Hey y'all! Long time no post, I have been busy! I recently acquired this Western jumbo sized acoustic. I believe it to be a Kay due to the construction and appointments, but it looks like a take on the Grammer acoustics that Amp produced in the 1960s-70s. If anyone can ID it or if anyone knows what it is worth, I'd sure appreciate it! It's a bolt on neck construction, so I assume it can't be very high end. It also wears 60s-70s Kay style strip tuners, has a massive neck block, and super thick ladder braces. I bought it for the bat-wing pickguard, as I play the old country western music from the 1950s-60s. The crazy batwing pick guards seemed to be all the rage back then, and they're hard to find on lower end models in my experience.






Here's some country pickers with their batwing guitars:

Webb Pierce with a custom Bigsby acoustic:


Stonewall Jackson


George Jones:



Happy hunting!
-Sam

 

[wileypickett]

Love the pickguard!

A lot of old Framuses (or "Framii," as the initiates pluralize them) had some serious bat-winginging goin' on.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

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[Charlie Bernstein]

Love the pickguard!

A lot of old Framuses (or "Framii," as the initaites pluralize them) had some serious bat-winginging goin' on.

I say go all the way and get a batwing Harmony mandolin!

 

[Guildedagain]

Pretty dang cool.

Super cool bridge on the guitar, potential.

Really weird to see a Stella tailpiece on a dread.

I got a minty matching hubcap to that, Baracuda maybe?

 

[79D25MMan]

Pretty dang cool.

Super cool bridge on the guitar, potential.

Really weird to see a Stella tailpiece on a dread.

I got a minty matching hubcap to that, Baracuda maybe?

Good eye! Some old 60s/70s Plymouth hubcap I found at a scrapyard!

 

[79D25MMan]

I say go all the way and get a batwing Harmony mandolin!

That is sweet! Only seen a couple pop up, I wish I could play! The Harmonies that came factory with pickups really do it for me, I find the tone on the old flattops and arch tops isn't spectacular by themselves, though they do have their own unique sound.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

. . . I wish I could play! . . .

Don't tell any mando pros I said this, but I pretend my mando is just a weird little guitar. Sometimes it pays to not be a pro! My crew likes it, which is good enough for me.

 

[Walter Broes]

The Guitar Webb Pierce is holding in the pic is a "Gay" guitar (yes, that is the actual name of the builder...) not a Bigsby. PA Bigsby never built an acoustic, but he re-necked quite a few Gibson and Martin acoustics, Lefty Frizell's J-200 and Merle Travis' D-28 are probably the best-known examples.

 

[dreadnut]

Too many screws.