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Originally Posted by Sarge
I have the newer version a tele/strat hybrid, if I recall correctly I belive the Strings and Things/Memphis St. Blues guitars from the 70's and 80's are in the $1,000+ range. The problem would be finding a buyer. That's one you would be wanting to hang on to as they didn't make a lot of them. When I was researching mine I found that the parts were made overseas but assembled in TN, the 70's models were made in USA and the 80's were "assembled" in the USA. Some early 80's guitars however could very well have been made in TN. Mine is a very well built and has great tone, Mary Kay finish with a tortise guard, tele headstock and control setup, strat body and strat type trem bridge. I've never seen one quite like it..maybe a Prototype. I got it from Iowa and it is a visually and tonealy smokin' guitar.
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Cool, thanks for the info. Short any further solid info, your $$ estimate was about where I was winding up.
Re: your St. Blues, it sounds like a way cool axe.
My straightup strat seems to be fairly rare; it seemed back in the 80s you'd only see one or two in a dealer's stock vs. a dozen Bluescaster variants... the few strat styled ones I've seen on the web from this era seem to have other biz like coil splitting, humbuckers, etc. so I tend to think that like yours, it's pretty rare. Not '69 rosewood tele rare
, but definitely pretty unique.
I found other interesting history on S&T; it seems in the late 70s their first run was of 40-odd '59 LP burst copies, that might've otherwise spurred a lawsuit, were it not for the low number of guitars produced. Yet that run sort of pushed Gibson into building reissues of their most desired models, I guess they finally woke up and figured out there was a market for them. And then later S&T changed their builds to a much more Fender-ish one, with a Gibson touch here & there. Interesting history, and they sure had some good endorsements & players for a time: Albert King, Clapton, Billy Squier, Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh, 38 Special ... I grabbed this one cuz in some guitar magazine, Rev. Willie told me they were good
He was right
