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Thinline Hollowbody for Live work

  • 11-01-2009 11:53PM
    #1
    Kurva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Any recommendations for a thinline hollow body for live work?
    I have an old Harmony at home but Its too fragile and unpredictable for live work



    So looking around the €1k (1500 max) mark - 2nd hand -
    Single Coils - Solid Spruce top - Thinline - Bigsby

    Not for Jazz either

    Do the likes of Bacchus make hollowbodys? - small companies that a lot of people would pass up for a Gibson



    Not a Gibson person - never liked them and expensive
    Rickys are too harsh - Never liked Ibanez either or Aria



    I'll probably settle for a Jap Gretsch - but wouldn't mind throwing a few other names in the hat

    I'd be tempted by the re-issue Harmonys but god only knows what there like


Comments

  • #2
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    saturn.jpg:)


  • #3
    fish-head
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭fish-head


    Tell us about your Harmony..


  • #4
    Kurva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Kurva


    fish-head wrote: »
    Tell us about your Harmony..


    its one of these

    2nd pic is identical

    made in 1958 - retrofitted at some point with a bigsby and a metal bridge

    neck is incredible - thin at the 1st, a fat C shape - at the 12th its as wide as a Jackson

    Original De Armonds - but i think the're the wrong way around (bridge in neck pos)

    Solid Spruce top and a Birch Laminate back and sides

    any sound is possible


    Which is why Gibsons and Ibanez never really impressed me


  • #5
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Yamaha have a thinline with 3 P90 pickups and some funky selector arrangment. It's a signature of that bloke from Queens of the Stone age - Troy something.

    You can get it in Black and Ox Blood Red. I think they're around 700, not sure if it's your thing. It's a bit modern like, not as traditional but I always wanted to try one out.


    Specs and pics:

    P_sa503TVL.jpg

    Yamaha SA503 TVL
    • Set Neck
    • Scale :24 3/4" = 628mm
    • Fingerboard :Rosewood
    • Radius :14" = 355mm
    • Frets :22
    • Body : Maple
    • Neck : Maple
    • Bridge : Chrome Bigsby Tremolo
    • Pickups : Bar Single Coils X 3
    • Pickup Switch : Dual 3-Way Selector Switches (All Access System)
    • Controls : Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Master Tone
    • Colors Black, Translucent Blood Red


    Bigbsy is a licensed one.
    http://www.harmony-central.com/ProductImages/Large/000003461.jpg


  • #6
    Patricide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    Id second the yamaha, played one of there hollowbodys before(dont have a clue what model it was) and it was goregeus.


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  • #7
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Kurva wrote: »
    Do the likes of Bacchus make hollowbodys? - small companies that a lot of people would pass up for a Gibson
    They did. They made a hollowbody Les Paul style called the Duke Box, I don't think they're making them at the moment though, so it'd be a matter of finding a second hand one on the web.


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