Not sure if I have written this before, so apologize if so...
Looking at what this guitar "is" or "is supposed to be," one almost has to have lived through
the electric guitar boom of the '60's. Those of us with middle income parents, were in no way
going to get a Fender Mustang (at close to $200), let alone even an Aria -Diamond hollowbody (which was just under
$100 at that time). So there were a ton of us early teens drooling in music shop windows, and up in the
air in Woolworths and Zayre's (where the electric guitars were hung from the ceiling!) at the $29.95-59.95
Kawaii Fender-almost-clones...1 to 3 p/u's, piano key or slide-switch switches, wierd tremolo (if any), no adjustable truss
rod.
The
Surfliner fits right into this schitck, at about
fifty 1965/66 dollars, but at a much higher quality than any
of us would have known then. What is missing is the black-to-red or black-to-yellow sunburst, maybe a striped, dead turtle
or mother-of-toilet-seat pickguard and some Jazzmaster/Jaguar-like tremolo...and maybe a "strangle" switch (lead/rythmn)
like most of them had. She is what she is, but don't hate her...go buy a Mustang repro for $xxxx then!
