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360 + 381 + Lysergic acid diethylamide = This?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:54 am
by leftyguitars
Just saw one of these in a major UK chain, it had a bit of everything in it! It certainly looked different (or not - depending on your opinion). They claim that it is the easiest 12 string to play, and that it delivers that 'classic British band sound' with its 'sparkling' pickups. It even has a Rickenbacker(ish) shaped logo! They do double necks and basses too!
Somehow I don't think that I will be buying one.
http://www.arbiter.co.uk/italia/electric_guitars/rimini_deluxe.htm
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:01 am
by sowhat
It looks a bit like everything.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:20 am
by melibreits
Weird.... It looks oddly familiar, in a different way. Not hard to see what inspired the design, LOL!
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:25 am
by shamustwin
yep, body looks a bit close...
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:07 am
by ozover50
Pass.............
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:19 am
by jingle_jangle
The rest of their lines are Strat KOs, Jazzmaster KOs, Gibson KOs, and a Gretsch KO tossed in for good measure.
Whatever happened to really imaginative Eyetalian stuff like:
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:31 pm
by rick36
Is it supposed to be an eyeball or a chariot? Oh whatever...Bravo!
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:44 pm
by kcole4001
Hmmm...musical hair dryer?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:34 pm
by jps
Hmm, I was just looking at a photo of one of those guitar with amp thingies the other day in a book I have.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:02 pm
by jingle_jangle
It's a Wandre Bikini. Guitar with built-in amp/speaker. If Eastwood ever comes out with one, I'm on the list.
Mebbe I should build one...
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:28 pm
by jps
It was sold under the Krundaal name. Made by Wandre Pioli of Cavriago, Italy in the early '60s.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:34 pm
by jingle_jangle
Wandre was one odd duck, but really right-brained when it came to geetars. He also did some unique engineering, such as his pivoting aluminum neck with one thumbscrew to adjust the action.
His finishes often used candle soot buried under clearcoat for a really strange effect.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:42 pm
by jingle_jangle
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:44 pm
by alanz
Man I love wacky stuff like that.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:25 pm
by jingle_jangle
Me, too...check out this website:
http://www.fetishguitars.com
and scroll to the Italian pages. You'll see what the guitars that started this thread could have been instead of bad pastiches of cliche styling cues.
