1961 A-500
- Thread starter GGJaguar
- Start date
I wish Guild had kept this body shape for all the big box archtops, but alas it was not to be.
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2009
- Messages
- 23,038
- Reaction score
- 18,696
- Location
- NJ (The nice part)
- Guild Total
- 112
Find me an A500B so I can pretend to be in the Blues Brothers!
letstalkguild.com
Matt Guitar Murphy - Blues Brothers Guild
I've seen this movie at least 638 times, but tonight as I'm watching, I saw this for the first time: What is it? X500?
letstalkguild.com
Find me an A500B so I can pretend to be in the Blues Brothers!
Matt Guitar Murphy - Blues Brothers Guild
I've seen this movie at least 638 times, but tonight as I'm watching, I saw this for the first time: What is it? X500?
In that thread it is revealed that the guitar is actually a 1968 A350.
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2009
- Messages
- 23,038
- Reaction score
- 18,696
- Location
- NJ (The nice part)
- Guild Total
- 112
I was too lazy to read the whole thing and it was my thread!
The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
Not sure I follow you here. That is a "cast" tailpiece. (Although it could be forged.) The "3D" hinged design was always used on the archtops. The thinner body tailpieces were stamped out of a sheet of metal.
Last edited:
Those early ones are engraved whereas the later ones have the swirly decoration cast into the piece.
The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
Ahh, got you!
SFIV1967
Venerated Member
Actually almost a very rare instance when Hans was wrong and had to correct himself that it was no A-500 but an A-350!
Ralf
The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
So you're saying Hans got Hans'd?
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2009
- Messages
- 23,038
- Reaction score
- 18,696
- Location
- NJ (The nice part)
- Guild Total
- 112
Is that like a divide by zero error?
SFIV1967
Venerated Member
Hard to say, we don't know the name of the "Guest". If he was another Hans,...who knows!
Ralf
hansmoust
Enlightened Member
A funny detail is that I actually dated that very guitar a couple of years before that, not knowing it was the guitar that was used in the movie. I didn't recognize the guitar when I saw the photo that was probably a 'still' from that movie; not a great quality shot!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
Stunning Guild