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1968 Epiphone
"Howard Roberts"
16-1/4" Archtop Electric
this guitar is a Bay Area legend, as is its
owner/player, Gary King, of San Francisco
musical fame
"the "Stratavariaus" of Howard Roberts models
ever played
"the perfect neck....not too thin, not too fat
....all the right curves"
purchased new from "Leo's Music" in Oakland
the only archtop guitar in the Bay Area with
such an identifiable and unique response &
sound other than Terry Haggerty's L-5 (Sons of
Champlin) and Jerry Miller's L-5 (Moby Grape)
mated for life with a black-face Fender Twin
Reverb Amp for an unbelievable varied and
controled sound
strung with .011, .013, .017, .028, .038 & .046
strings
floating mini-humbucking pickup with chrome
cover
24-3/4" scale
single Florentine (pointed) cutaway
single-bound, oval, sound-hole
carved spruce, parallel-braced, top with natural
finish
maple back & sides with walnut finish
single piece Honduran mahogany neck
bound rosewood fretboard with "slotted-block"
(and 2 "block") inlays
unbound black headstock with pearl script
"Epiphone" and vertical "oval shell" inlays
chrome "Frequensator" tailpiece
3-ply black & creme binding on top; single-ply
on fretboard and back
3-ply white & black pickguard with beveled
edge (note the extraordinary wear mark)
non-original black knobs
"tune-o-matic bridge with ebony base with
inlays on feet
nickel tuners with "tulip" buttons
introduced 1964; discontinued 1970 |