I live in a strange world where I just became my own customer by buying my own guitar.

[John Backlund]

A few years ago, I owned two of these things, a three-pup and two-pup Rockerbox semi-hollows. Then, I sold one, and gave the other one away as a token of my appreciation for helping me do some videos.

So now Eastwood has run another small batch of them, and I bought one today because....well, because I should have at least one example of this model, shouldn't I?

I didn't ask for a 'buddy deal' on it, just ordered it like any other 'Joe Guitar Guy' would have to. Maybe if I pay full-boat for the damn thing, I'll be less likely to sell it later on after I get used to seeing it laying around and bored with it like I have with so many other guitars I've had.

 

[Stringbanger]

 

[mexicanyella]

I have to like a guitar with Buick portholes (or maybe WWII fighter exhaust stacks?) on it as F-holes. That is cool.

 

[Hodgo88]

Man, the red/cream triple pup version of that guitar makes me feel all sorts of ways... Congrats on your N(O)GD

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Well, any time in the future you get bored with any of your Backlunds, shoot me a message and I’ll send you my address …

 

[John Backlund]

Man, the red/cream triple pup version of that guitar makes me feel all sorts of ways... Congrats on your N(O)GD

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That's my original digital concept rendering of the Rockerbox guitar, the one that was used by Eastwood to help the Korean manufacturer pattern the production version from.

It differs from the guitar that was produced by having a classic archtop shaped top, while the actual guitar had a flat top.
Although it's not visible in this top view, the Rockerbox was originally intended to have a full-depth body, but the final version was made as a thinline style.

The one-off, unique, tailpiece in the illustration was another feature that was omitted, and replaced with a somewhat more generic item, as were the custom control knobs.

I showed cream body binding, but the actual guitars all had black binding.

 

[Hodgo88]

That's my original digital concept rendering of the Rockerbox guitar, the one that was used by Eastwood to help the Korean manufacturer pattern the production version from.

It differs from the guitar that was produced by having a classic archtop shaped top, while the actual guitar had a flat top.
Although it's not visible in this top view, the Rockerbox was originally intended to have a full-depth body, but the final version was made as a thinline style.

The one-off, unique, tailpiece in the illustration was another feature that was omitted, and replaced with a somewhat more generic item, as were the custom control knobs.

I showed cream body binding, but the actual guitars all had black binding.

Well darn. I think your concept was perfect! Ever think about building a one off to the original spec?

 

[John Backlund]

Well darn. I think your concept was perfect! Ever think about building a one off to the original spec?

Thanks, but I had better leave the actual guitar building to those who know how to do it.

This is the only guitar design that I had ever considered putting together, and that's because it is just a slightly modified telecaster that can benefit from widely available 'off the shelf' components.

The body is a standard tele body that has the lower cutout horn shortened about an inch, and would use a ready-made neck with a 'blank paddle' headstock that would be custom shaped to compliment the general theme of it's styling.

I still might build an example, just to see one out here in the real world.

 

[Bob Womack]

That's not the half of it, mate. In the early 1970s, Joe Walsh bought a fantastic '59 LP Standard (considered in the top three from the period) that he played a bunch and had lots of pics with.

In the early 2000s someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse and he sold it. However, of late, his lovely wife has been helping him get some of his favorite guitars back, and, you guessed it, Joe Walsh bought back the Joe Walsh burst.

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