Zen-On Electric Guitar

[octagon]

I bought this guitar in a local store last week. I thought it was kinda cool. I think it was made in japan the early 60s but I'm not sure if it was actually made by Zen-On or another manufacturer. The pickups are a low output single coil. The open back tuners work great!

The body is small and the headstock is nearly the same size,lol. Neck is huge,no truss rod. Kinda reminds me like a late 50's television. Rocker switches 1 and 2 turn the pickups on and off and 2 others roll off the treble: Clear-Soft and Solo-Rhythm.







Elvis Costello has a similar guitar that is badged Futurama



Mine is a Zen-On 1400SD



This is the same model guitar as min in this video below

[Grey]

You must have a "thing" for weird guitars.

[callmepaulguitar]

hey man...i'm new around here..that jap is nice..betcha it's a tone monster....i got a chickenbacker 3pup 5ctl that needs rewiring..and i can't find a diagram..any help???

[cjj]

Here's the schematic for a RIC 5 control 3 pickup mono guitar:
http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19512.pdf

And for stereo:
http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19514.pdf