Flea Market Find

Nice find!!! Sorry I can't help with details.

Warmoth does LP style bodies with bolt on necks. Could be a home build project.

Looks cool whatever it is- how does she sound?

Best,
Ande

warmoth doesn't make a headstock like that, according to their website. i don't know anyone that makes a headstock with a triangular top like that. there might be a hint if you check the neck pocket, such as a serial number, but you have to take off the neck to do that, and if you don't know what you're doing, that might be a bad idea.
if you don't get an answer here, you should try harmonycentral's electric guitar forums. someone there will probably know.

Nice Find Ken !

Sorry not much help on yours but I did have a similar experience last week at a Tag Sale.

No name or markings of any kind Strat copy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40891460@N04/3763610266/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40891460@N04/3763609240/

I'm guessing one of those Samick Kit Guitars

And Yes the price was Seven Dollars . How could I pass that up?

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John

Nice find! 8)

Thanks everyone 8) -I haven't strung it up yet-I'm off friday I'll do it then-I just cleaned it up a bit.The only markings on it were r.l. 1979
looks like it was scratched into the plastic cover on back.

Nice find for you too! :D
Nice Find Ken !

Sorry not much help on yours but I did have a similar experience last week at a Tag Sale.

No name or markings of any kind Strat copy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40891460@N04/3763610266/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40891460@N04/3763609240/

I'm guessing one of those Samick Kit Guitars

And Yes the price was Seven Dollars . How could I pass that up?

:note1: :note1: :note1:

John

Hi Ken, that's a nice copy of a Les Paul and a good find. 8)

Normally, I can identify guitars, from seeing, uhhh... mmmaaybee a couple of thousand of them in one place like a Guitar Show, times too many years! :lol:

Well, I'm stumped on this one, except to say that it comes from factories such as those in either Japan or Korea that produced "FOR" names or labels such as Harmony, Raven, Silvertone, El Degas. I think there were at least a hundred different names back then. I have a similar one with an onboard, 9V active effects module, circa 1970's.

Right, so many guitar brands were names only, and not representative of any Real Estate locations, hard assets or factories. The actual factories were often the same for many brands as they are now for for Epiphone, Washburn, Yamaha, Dean, Jay Turser, Agile and a bunch of the familiars and still, dozens of the not-so-familiars. :D

The headstock is very remarkable, and just so different from others I've seen, and BTW Les Paul clones, unlike plain Strat copies usually had a name silkscreened or tampoed on 'em? The LP's were always a step up, and they were proud to wear some type of label most of the time, but this isn't a Hoshino/Ibanez/,Tokai, or anything that high end.

Thanks for the reply-That is very interesting-It is very similar to my Agile 3000-I may just put my name on it :D

No further clues on the LP, but I think that stratocopy is a KCC.

Leastwise, my first stratocopy was a made in China guitar with KCC painted on the headstock which was exactly that shape.

I didn't like the KCC lettering so I rubbed the paint off (it was that cheap, just came right off with linseed oil) and painted my sig on it. Same shape, though...

For the price, which was very low, it was a nice guitar- good bright strat tone. I never got the action quite perfect, but it was a pretty sweet axe for the $40 I paid for it.

Best,
Ande

And Yes the price was Seven Dollars . How could I pass that up?

$7? Wow. That's an awesome find! :D Congrats!

Nice finds to both of you. I'm not sure if it's possible to pass up a $7.00 guitar that's playable. :D

Nice finds to both of you. I'm not sure if it's possible to pass up a $7.00 guitar that's playable. :D

I know.
I couldn't pass by one that was twice as much. :wink: :lol:

Hey kent_eh, I found that headstock and maybe the whole darn neck here on Elvis Costello's Silvertone guitar, sort of an ES-175/335, arguably sisters to the Les Paul, same family anyway.

I believe that this firmly places your guitar in the Silvertone range, or from the same factory as Silvertone, identical and the same in construction, except without a Silvertone badge. That's an Oriental tradition.*

*Explanation: many guitars were commissioned by harmony and silvertone, but those factories just said to themselves "Hey, we've sold out our order and production run to Harmony and to Sears, so let's just keep going and sell some more to anybody and everybody who will take 'em." More money_eh? :D

Yours is from the 70's, earlier than the pen markings of 1979 inside, but not by much. That is the previous owner's mark?

So, I guess that I have seen that headstock, but as I said in my intro, I have forgotten much after 40 years, and about guitars from the 50's and up. :lol: