Guitar Info

You remember the ultra green turtle shell or the black alligator skin Duesenberg Starplayers TV? 

Well, here is the black and gold leaf checkered one, a limited edition signature guitar for Japanese rockstar Ringo Sheena, same cooler than cool model with its art deco gear - whole in shining gold - with another outrageous finish...

Enjoy!

Who can deny that Duesenberg makes some of the most splendid guitars out there?

This is the emerald green pearltop Duesenberg Starplayer, a guitar you can't avoid noticing with its outrageous finish combined with the most elegant design and gear - something we already enjoyed on the Outlaw - with a more sober but still over the edge black crocodile style look...

The Duesenberg tremelos - here it's a Tremola -  have a very good reputation - they feel like a good alternative to Bigsbys.

I feel like one day I should try to earn money if I ever want to have such a guitar - I should compose a hit song...

This gleaming artifact is - according to its eBay seller - a Duesenberg-based custom work by French luthier Zinc (about which I couldn't find any information by the way).

It has for sure the characteristic humbucker/P90 configuration of hollow-body Duesenbergs, also the Duesenberg knobs and switch (plus one extra that might be a killswitch), but the body doesn't really fit to any Duesenberg model I can identify: the F-hole is too wide, the cutaway too pointy and the body too round to be a Starplayer - the closest model to it... Also the neck is for sure no Duesenberg, but a strat copy (carrying a Zinc logo) - so it could be that only the gear made it to this custom - then the body is a mystery... Love the chrome finish though!

I've been posting German guitars regularly here, but so far I never had the opportunity to show the classiest of them all, the Duesenbergs. Actually these guitars are so luxurious that's it's hard to find a photo that doesn't seem to come from an expensive erotic magazine - and they hardly ever show up second-hand on eBay...

Anyway, let me finally introduce you to the Duesenberg 49er, with its 21st century art deco retro-futurist look, strings-thru-body bridge, bridge humbucker and neck P90... No vintage here but an inevitable vintage look!  

One day I hope I can show here an Outlaw model with its black snake skin finish - there's one here but the pics suck.