Anyone know what this guitar is?

[tommasters]

Anybody know what this is?
Just picked it up cheap sounds great. Looks Japanese? Might be a home made job?

[Nelson Instruments]

The zero fret, bridge, and vibrato look Japanese to me.
How about a shot of the back side? That might help too.

[colin]

I agree with Bobby that it certainly looks Japanese. But I've never seen anything that looks quite like that before. Wouldn't hurt to pull the neck and pickguard off to check for markings. Anything on the neck plate?

I like it, it's got a sort of Hi-Flyer meets Mustang kinda vibe to it.

[Phosphene Audio]

It almost looks like something that someone has cut down from it's original shape, but it doesn't look as bad as when someone does a hack job. It looks neat.

[Chankgeez]

I agree with Bobby that it certainly looks Japanese.

PIckups, pickguard and hardware definitely look Japanese.

It almost looks like something that someone has cut down from it's original shape, but it doesn't look as bad as when someone does a hack job. It looks neat.

My second thought as well.

Give us some more context, please, tommaseters.

[Chankgeez]

A likely contender for the hardware at least:

[weed_killer]

I used to have one of the above - the pickups were the best gold-foils I've ever played, miles beyond the usual silver-face ones (teisco, not dearmonds). I sold the guitar but ended up getting one of the pickups back, and I had it in the neck position of my mustang for a long time, before I put a nelson super chief in instead.

[waltdogg]

Looks a little Hagstrom-esq.

[Chankgeez]

[kosta]

It's like a Guyatone and a Maton had a summer fling at the beach before heading back to school in the fall.

[D.o.S.]

It's like a Guyatone and a Maton had a summer fling at the beach before heading back to school in the fall.

Agreed. And my guess is that the hardware, the body, and the neck are all from different beasts originally.

[Chankgeez]

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