Here's an example (Reverb) complete with disintegrating nitrogen cellulose pickguard that Aiq describes: įor balance - an Ibanez copy sans dissolved pickguard: Īiq - I have posted on several occasions of the guitars (Strats) built at the Fujigen plant. Two things prevented this - I didn't have the money (much less than used ones go for now) and it didn't lend itself to the types of music that I was playing (standard classic rock stuff). Robert, the Howard Roberts guitar WAS a Gibson guitar! I almost bought one in 1976. A new tone that fits in-between those other two tones. But maybe that is what the tone is suppose to be. I didn't know, I suppose, how to adjust the knobs because I was getting a tone different from a Les Paul and a single coil Strat. My man there said it was designed to squeeze in between a Les Paul with P-90s or Humbuckers and a Strat with stock single coils and give the player the best of both worlds without having to change guitars in the set. Recently I messed around with a PRS McCarty at the big music store here. But the headstock is clearly the usual Paul Reed Smith design. John Mayer's PRS guitar line has the body looking, to me, just like a Fender Stratocaster. As to the Howard Roberts guitar you have, I don't see an exact take on any Gibson guitars. So this is going to offer companies such as Gibson more protection. I think the last lawsuite I read about ONLY THE HEADSTOCK couldn't look like another companies headstock. The court ruled Gibson owns the shapes of the bodies of their ES, SG, Explorer, Flying V, Firebird guitars. I was just reading Gibson won their lawsuit against Dean Guitars over the Flying V.

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