The middle pot activated the middle reverse-wound single-coil, and the rear pot has an out-of-phase function. The front pot tapped the humbuckers to single coil. This was controlled by a 3-way with a master volume, two tone controls for the humbuckers, and three pull-up pots.
This was Presley’s idea from back in 1971. These had two humbuckers on either side of a reverse-wound single-coil. All had the same hardware and electronics, but different shapes. There were a bunch of different radical designs introduced by SLM, including this Lady (obvious name!). Two: SLM entered into a joint venture with Matsumoku and began a year-long process of taking over Matsumoku’s own brand name Westone. One: SLM started playing with new pointy guitar designs. Other stuff happened, but this brings us up to the early 1980s and the craze for pointy guitars. Paul Yandell, who backed Chet Atkins, endorsed them. Those open-coil zebra pickups on Japanese Electras were American. From a certain point on, guitars came made by Matsumoku but without pickups, which were installed in the US. One advantage they had was that they hired a guitar designer named Tom Presley who started designing guitars and supervising the manufacture of the electronics in St. This coincided with the rise of the copy era, and it wasn’t long before Electra was competing with Ibanez for the “beginner” market and beyond. In around 1970 they introduced a “copy” of the Ampeg Dan Armstrong “See-Through” guitar called The Electra. But when Valco/Kay went under, options were running out. It was probably pretty tentative at first. Sometime in the late-’60s, SLM started to bring in guitars with the Electra brand. There are visible holes showing where the original input jack-plate was.Ĭase: This guitar doesn’t include a case but it ships professionally packaged and fully insured.Like everyone else, SLM couldn’t resist the allure of Japan. One of the tone knobs have been changed and the input jack plate has been replaced. Modifications: The neck pickup has been replaced with an EMG Select humbucker. The frets are in great shape with no major grooves or divots from use and it plays beautifully up and down the fretboard with no dead spots or choking out. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functional, and the action has been setup low and comfortable. Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, setup, and restrung this guitar with a new set of 10’s. The neck pickup has been replaced with an EMG humbucker.
There is one screw missing on the neck pickup cover that does not affect the playability or sound of the guitar. There are chips in the finish hear and there on the body. There are chips in the finish and small portions of wood missing on the points of V. Pickups/Hardware: H/S/H pickup configuration, 3 push/pull knobs, one volume/two tone knobs, 6 black inline tuning keys, 6-point tremolo system (No Tremolo Arm).Ĭosmetics: This guitar’s body has a lot of wear on it. Neck: Rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, dot inlays, 1 5/8” nut width, 25.75” scale length.
Overall, this is a mean, versatile guitar that was built for rock ‘n’ roll.īody: Solid “V” shape with an extra angle that allows for playing sitting down more comfortable than other “V” style guitars. It has some wear and tear that can be associated with an instrument that is near 30 years old. You can go from single coil spank to crunchy humbucking riffs. The mix of pickup configuration and push/pull pots on all three knobs give you a ton of options in how you want the guitar to sound. Summary: This Japanese made Electra by Westone XV3GR is a real player.
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