Rich Cohen
Senior Member
Here's something out of the twilight zone:
I agree. Almost criminal, even though, apparently Bob Benedetto was involved. I'm actually surprised he accepted to do it. At least the original neck is offered.I'm normally not as sensitive to modified guitars as some of you, but it's hard for me to support that.
I agree. Almost criminal, even though, apparently Bob Benedetto was involved. I'm actually surprised he accepted to do it. At least the original neck is offered.
Nothing about that says Benedetto. For example, they claim that the neck has a Fratello model headstock shape. A wuick check of the Benedetto website shows this as the Fratello headstock.
Close, but no cigar!
The amateurish Installation of the pickups screams not-Benedetto to me. He(they) pride themselves on craftsmanship. This would never be allowed to be seen if it came from them.
Not buying it, so I won’t buy it!
I think we need to be comparing to early, small shop Benedetto stuff. I don't think I'd expect it to have the sort of high end laser precision look of modern era Benedetto stuff like the pic you found. This is the only early one I found on reverb and it looks a lot closer: https://reverb.com/item/32264585-benedetto-artist-15-archtop-blonde
There are some (not great) pics on the Benedetto site of '80s stuff, including a matching headstock shape on some Fratello models
Honestly, I buy the story, though it would not surprise me if the pickups were done at another date by somebody more amateur. To be fair, the seller only claims Benedetto renecked it and installed a new bridge. Even if that new neck is really nice (and really Benedetto), I can't see the work done to this guitar helping its value. Gotta be like a $1500 instrument, if that. It's seen a lot of smoky clubs.
Unbelievable...no words...
If I was the seller, I'd go ahead and claim I'd shown it to Brian in the eighties and that it was the basis for that model.