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I have a nice little Concord 1. Mine is 24" scale, has two single coils, and is from 1983

Nice little guitar IMO, reminds me more of the Fender Bullet from the early 1980s. Although unlike that one, the Concord had string thru body, decent bridge, nicer neck and solid wood construction.



Here it is with my other Westones

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Ooooh...cool stuff. Start an off-topic thread here with more details, if you wouldn't mind:

http://www.sollophonicguitars.co.uk/video.php

je

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Super cool website!....

Love the guitars Sollophonic...

I pulled the Concord out... Nice little guitar...

Here is mine

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Great stuff you're creating Sollo! Nice sound, nice playing too!

Yeah the Concords are terrific guitars, especially if you like a Strat-y sound but don't like the weight that typically goes with them. Very deceiving models, they appear to be almost toy-like but surprise the hell out of ya. Very comfortable to play.

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Hi

I just think that people who sale their Japan Models are a little bit "in the clouds" cose what is the reason to buy Japan Models, they are
all better than original Models and the sound /and/or electronics has always something interesting , so either they are better or different , or both
but never worst , never forget this .

I have one original ARIA STAGE III KPI METAL SERIES colour white. I 'll never sell it.
I have just finish to sand the neck, and I also have to refret all the fretboard, for the 6 th time, cose
I play more than 30 hours a week. After these handworks, I 'll put all the picture to show my work.

I found some parts for the lock nut that came from Kahler , don't forget it cose even Floyd Rose has put all confidence in them
to make all the pieces in the Kahler Factory, only for the reason than Mr Matsumoku knew, in the 80's, the quality of the metal,
and if you put anything bad on your body, the sound dies itself alone without doing anything, this is the secret of the sustain,

See ya

Yes , the pickups are active one cose with electronics, and more .........
this guitar has something of magics ......... the KILL SWITCH ......... used by ????????
yeah you've got it ..................... Eddie Van Halen ........ in the 80's !!!!!!!!!!
on EVH Wolfgang models, the kill switch has another form, now it's a button you just push on
and when you stop to push, the sound comes again !!!!!!!

For the pickups, there is a switch that is a booster, that gives you power very efficient with
overdrive / distorsion the sound is very good and tiypical of 80's and something more.