Chad Blakely

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Norman's Rare Guitars

Norman's Rare Guitars

These are some of the guitar history illustrations I created for Norman's Rare Guitars in Tarzana, California.

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i v iV. Nim eil gp Ni hiked fondo DEVELOPED IN 1957, AG A PART OF TED MCCARTY'S MODERNIST LINE OF ITARG, THE GIBSON FLYING V i| ORIGINALLY WAS MADE OF MAHOGANY. MARKETED AS “KORINA® WOOD, IT T GA T Al KORINA WOOD GAVE 16 SIMILAR TO MAHOGANY IN TONAL GIBLON'G NEW GUITARG A UNIQUE LOOK AND TONE. 1967. THE GUITAR WAS REISSUED IN MAHOGANY AND BECAME A FAVORITE BLUES GUITARISTS HUCH AS ALBERT KING. ROCKERS DIDN'T DISCOVER THE IN 1970. GIBG&ON CREATED A LEFT-HANDED FLYING V FOR HENDRIX, HE DUBBED T Hib FLYING ANGEL".
—INORMAN" RARE GLIITARS HISTORY IN THE EARLY 1950'6. UPSTART GUITAR COMPANY, FENDER. HAD INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO TWO NEW 6TYLE, REVOLUTIONARY GUITARS. THE TELECASTER AND THE PRECISION BASS. IN EARLY 1953, DEGIGNER FREDDY TAVARES BEGAN | THE STRATOCASTER FEATURED 3 SINGLE TO SKETCH OUT A NEW GUITAR COIL PICKUPS, A 3 WAY SELECTOR SWITCH THAT COMBINED ELEMENTS OF AND A UNIQUE, NEW VIBRATO BRIDGE, LEO FENDER'S OTHER TWO GUITARS INTO A RADICAL NEW BODY 6TYLE HOWEVER, INNOVATOR LEO FENDER WASN'T DONE YET, AS HE BEGAN ENVIGIONING AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THE TELECASTER. GUITARISTS LOVED THE GUITAR. SPECIALLY FOR IT COMFORTABILITY. GUTARILT REX GALLION ¥% CREDITED WITH SUGGESTING TO LEO THAT THE GUITAR DIDN'T NEED TO BE SQUARE EDGED. THUS THE GUITAR WAS GIVEN CONTOURS THAT MADE IT VERY COMFORTABLE AS IT DIDN'T DIG INTO THE PLAYER'S RIBS AND ELBOW. SINCE IT6 RELEASE IN 1954, THE STRAT HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF GUITARISTS FROM ALL GENRES WHO LOVE IT6 SIGNATURE TONES.
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