Is This a Larrivee Guitar???

[Cougar]

http://www.yamahafz1oa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111977

Your help would be greatly appreciated.  This is driving us nuts!

Cougar

[JOYCEfromNS]

Sorry Friend it wants me to log onto the Forum you referenced to in order that I can view Pic. If you can somehow post the pic as you did in your sig on that Forum or post in another way I would try and help.

[Randy_R]

put the image on a public web/image server and post the link here. Or mail it to me. steyrhahn@yahoo.com

[Randy_R]

Here's the image. I've already replied to the poster that its not a Larrivee.

perhaps someone here will recognize the guitar. a double cutaway acoustic isn't common.

The headstock inlay may help id it.



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[Danny]

  The shape and look of the headstock makes me think of the old USA made Harmonies with a hundred different names on the headstock. I have an old Harmony Sovereign that has Fender on it. But the double cut a way makes me think it may be a small builder as well.

[L07 Shooting Star]

Could it be an (Eastern) European made guitar?

[Randy_R]

Could it be an (Eastern) European made guitar?

There's conjecture on the forum where its posted that the picture was taken in Israel.

unclrob needs to have a look...

[unclrob]

I've seen lots of guitars from europe and russia but I'm not formular with this one.I hope I get the name right but I could have it wrong but there was a company called Whectler I think that offered both a US made and anasian made double cutaway guitar maybe 10 years back or so.I found that they we're very pricey instruments if I remember right the asian import cost a little bit more wholesale then what I was paying for Larrivee's from Canada at the time.I played a sample of both the asian and the US modal and wasn't impressed.

[Randy_R]

Wechter guitars makes a double cutaway, but its not like this one.

I'm trying to find pictures of early 1970's Wechters and can't. That said, the fuzzy headstock logo doesn't seem to spell Wechter.

It doesn't look like the current Wechter double cutaway. http://www.wechterguitars.com/models/Pathmaker

You'd think a simple web search for double cutaway acoustic guitar would zero in on this, but there is so much junk on the internet that I get page after page of fake web sites responding to any word I type in.

[ncognito]

It might be a Langejans.  He has been known to build double cutaways if I'm not mistaken.

     DAVE

[OutWithTheBlue]

Not sure what it is, but its not a Larrivee.

[tuffythepug]

It might be a Langejans.  He has been known to build double cutaways if I'm not mistaken.

    DAVE

Here's a pic of a Langejans headstock.   Logo looks similar to the one in question

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[Cougar]

Here's a better picture:



Likely not taken in Israel.  It's of  Dean Reed, the "Red Elvis".  http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2727559,00.html

We still don't know what kind of guitar it is though.  Could be Eastern European since he spent a lot of time there.

[ducktrapper]

I think it says Limberger. It is kind of cheesy. The "Red" Elvis?

Blue Moon of Belarus
You Ain't Nothing but a Kulak
Little Comrade (Don't You Do What Your big Comrade Done)  
All Tschook Up
(Let Me Be) Your Russian Bear
Mystery Troika
Commissars Rush In
Heartbreak Dacha
(Now and Then There's) A Commie Such as I
Are You Reactionary Tonight
Viva Novosibirsk!
In The Gulag

But more, much more than that ... I did it Mao Way

 

[CJ]

LOL, DT! 

Must be a an old photo from Balalaika Magazine, probably an endorsement deal for Fugly guitars.

Here's a few links to help you out - turns out there's a Dean Reed fan site at http://www.deanreed.de/deutsch/index.html

A few more photos with that guitar are found at that site:

http://www.deanreed.de/img-sites/singt001.html
http://www.deanreed.de/img-sites/deanreed18.html
http://www.deanreed.de/img-sites/197908bam001.html
http://www.deanreed.de/img-sites/1981-libanon01.html

The fan site and photo captions put him with that guitar from 1979-1981.

[ST]

The upper bout looks like an extension instead of a cutaway. Do you suppose that's a sound hole or a decoration on that extended upper bout?

[CJ]

You guys might dig this page for guitar identification: http://www.jedistar.com/jedistar_vintage_guitar_dating_l.htm

On that page there's a couple of logos that look similar - the Lebeda and the Leduc, though the latter seems to be electrics only.

Lebeda was a czech maker, known for mandos though.