Guitar Collector Forum

First, Las Tres Hermanas: c. '72-74 Breadwinner, DeArmond Jet Star, Fernandes Ravelle:







Some other slightly non-standard models:















Any questions gladly answered.

Cool!!

I love the powder blue Breadwinner, was that an original factory color or is it a re-finish?

The DeArmond Jet Star looks like the bastard son of a Strat and an SG, with a bit of Explorer and the odd Danelectro in its ancestry! What a very strange body shape... its like they coudn'd decide on a style so just went for a random shape.

The Breadwinner is the original color.

The Jet Star is based on the '60's Guild Thunderbird:



That model was played by Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin' Spoonful and Muddy Waters.

I love that guitar! Something about the shape reminds me of surreal art.... somewhere between Salvador Dali's floppy clocks and Edvard Munch's the Scream. Maybe it's just me!

Or Gumby!

WOW! though wacky, those are all really great! I liked the 6th one down, the pinkish one! which is a what??

That's a Brownsville Choirboy. Brownsville was something of a "house brand" for the US music chain Sam Ash, or at least that's where I remember them mainly being sold. I believe they were MIK. The construction is sort of like a Danelectro, cheap chipboard-type body with a center block of some mystery wood bolted to a maple neck/rosewood board. The cool thing about that'un is the low-output toaster pickups, which are alnico single-coils (despite looking rather like humbuckers). The middle pickup is reverse-wound/reverse polarity, for hum-canceling in the 2 and 4 spots on the 5-way selector. Kind of like a thinline Strat on steroids. The toasters are beefier than Strat or other Fender single coils.

The color is one that Brownsville copped from the old Fender custom colors, called Burgundy Mist. It's a shade darker than it shows up in pictures.

hmmmm awesome! Burgundy Mist??? Just sounds so nice

Yeah, it's got a slight light purple or lavender shade to it that doesn't seem to ever wanna show up in pics.

Btw, if you hit reply/quote to the above posts with pics, you can see how to post pics with IMG tags.

Thunderbird, really??? If a Thunderbird is wacky, call me wacky then. The Las Tres Hermanas and Breadwinner are the bomb. Especially the Breadwinner. I love Teardrop shaped guitars as well. Weird guitars are awesome--especially in this day and age. No one wants to make anything but the "standard" Les Paul, SG or Strat style.