Robert Mayo
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2011 5:09 pm |
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Greg's Guitars Atlanta brings yet another cool, collectible,rare vintage guitar to the table, The Sears brand guitar sold in the 60's, built by Harmony. Branded both by Harmony as the H-49.and as a Silvertone 1423 "Jupiter" model. These killer guitars are very similar in body shape to a Les Paul but with a semi-hollow body... It's incredibly light. This one weighs in at an even 5 pounds. The "Jupiter" is remarkably versatile with a great sound. It features two vintage and original DeArmond™ pick-ups built by "Rowe Industries", volume/tone for each pick-up and a three position selector. These are dated 1962.by the pot codes. Very little fret wear, open back original tuners, Nice medium sized neck, not a baseball bat nor is it to slim. The nut width is 1 and ¾ inches, rosewood adjustable bridge and tailpiece. Mother of pearl block inlays and rosewood fingerboard. This Guitar comes with a period correct possibly original yellow lined chip style hard case as well. There's also the sweet fifth knob...A rare "BLENDER" switch. This special control is activated when both pick-ups are in the middle position on the 3-way switch. The "BLENDER" knob gradually shifts the weight between the pick-ups. The vintage 1962 Silvertone "Jupiter" has an extremely wide range with the "Blender Circuit". It packs punch for such a small guitar, full of tonal options for recording or playing out with the band. And what is a “blender” switch? It’s like having a wah-wah knob when the two pickups are engaged. It has at least a couple of uses. One is as a standard wah-wah type sound. Play a note while wrapping your pinky around the volume or tone knob, spin it back and forth and you have a classic wah type sound or, set it wherever you like in its tonal sweep and you have a stunning variety of tones from the two pickups blended. One feature of the blender is that it seems to tone down the hotness of the pickups,(these pups scream) so that you have a slightly cleaner, groove tone on the two pickups, and more of a rock and roll/blues bite and grind on them when they’re used separately. How do the vintage DeArmond™ pickups sound you ask ? Well a booming, bluesy grind on the neck pickup, with a ton of aggressive bottom and lush mids along with the bite. The bridge pickup is one of the truly great rock and roll sounds raw and sweet. These tones are really easy to access when playing live. One of the few vintage multi knob guitars ever made that is user-friendly and easy to dial in when you need a great tone as there’s really not a bad setting to be found on it. These electric guitars can go from rolled-off mellow jazz to snarling rock with very little effort. Add to this a very easy playing neck and an astoundingly light guitar (these are semi-hollowbody, yet not neck-heavy), and you have one of the great values in vintage guitars. Another nice feature of this model is that it isn’t prone to the same squealing feedback some of the Rockets and H-series thinlines are at high volumes they can be very sensitive to higher volume playing. Not so with vintage Silvertone the 1423 Jupiter. The Silvertone is a great looking guitar. The vintage 1423 Jupiter is finished in a sparkle-black top made of maple as well as the back and sides with a white pickguard around the five mini-black knobs and the three way toggle. Just another cool,collectible guitar brought to you from Greg’s Guitars Atlanta, rock on ! This guitar will have a new nut as the original has slots to deep for proper playability but will be included with the guitar. $799.00
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 9 Oct 2011 4:46 pm
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Cool... I have one of these that I've owned since it was new. Unfortunately, during my teen years, it suffered. It is missing one of the pickups and the bridge is broken. My dad gave me this guitar and a little sears amp with an 8 inch speaker.
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Steve Stallings
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