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They too were not luxurious guitars and I believe had no truss rods (hence particularly in later Stripes years it goes out of tune all the time) but that and the other red junkshop ones have been locked away in storage since the Stripes called it a day in 2010. Occasionally his hollow slide guitar comes out for Seven Nation Army, and he does play old Acoustic guitars, but the old junk electric guitar thing was pretty much only with the Stripes
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"1)The 3 way toggle switch on the lower horn, acts rather like a two pickup guitar, It accesses Neck, Neck and Bridge, Bridge, and these are controlled via Volume one.
Info taken from a Facebook posting by Alan Entwistle
I think my favourite non traditional switch setup for a 3 pickup guitar is probably the one Matt Oram uses on the Fidelity Stellarosa, which has two independent 3-way switches, one for neck and bridge combinations, one for combinations with the middle pickup, and a 2-way to select between them. Super flexible, and once you get your head around it (or in my case once someone’s explained what’s going on and how it works!) perfectly logical and easy to work with for something which gives that many combinations…
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My one (minor) complaint is that the headstock is too nice looking. The original headstock was oddly stretched and was a pretty ugly affair. I would have loved it if they had been brave enough to replicate it, but then I would probably be the only one to buy one!
The guitar nostalgia phenomenon continues unabated. About 8-9 years ago, the Supro Company of Long Island, NY, released a line of amps and guitars based upon the old 50's and 60's designs. The amps did pretty well, but were frightfully overpriced. The guitars were cheap and overpriced, but they looked cool. Basically, they were a flop, and Supro ended up blowing them out to dealers at greatly reduced prices. About two years ago, Supro was bought out by the corporation that produces D'Angelico guitars. The guy running Supro totally screwed his marketing up; he tried to turn Supro into a purveyor of higher end gear, when everyone remembered it as budget student stuff and it backfired in his face.
I bought a Supro white Holiday guitar direct from the company and it needed over $200 worth of work to get it playable. The Sahara model I got a few months ago from Texas blues guitarist Lance Keltner is much better by far, so maybe I just got a bad one.