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.

—INORMAN'S—

RARE GLIITARS

HISTORY

TO CALL LES PAUL AN INNOVATOR WORD 8

00 THE GUITART A DBSERVICE. rah

THOUGH GIBSON REJECTED THE DESIGN

NUMEROUS INNOVATIONS CHANGED OBC ll ween PAUL PRESENTED IT TO Tratm, wien

Ab WE KNOW [T. ONE OF THORE WAG. WHAT THEY BEGAN WORK ON THEIR FRET
CON ERT OR SE FNS 74 HOLID-BO0Y GUITAR. GABAON PRESIDENT
TED MCCARTY CALLED IN LES PAUL. »
THE GUITAR MADE (76 DEBUT IN JUNE 195:
WHEN LES PAUL PLAYED A GOLD TOP,
FEATURING TWO P-00 PICKUPS AND
A TRAPEZE 6TYLE TAL PIECE AND BROGE
AT Tit PARAMOUNT N NEW YORK CITY.

   

DESIGNED HUMBUCKER
PICK-UP wits ADDED.

UCKLY IN THE CARLY 606 JS
THE ORIGINAL b
LES PAUL GANED
POPULARITY WITH YOUNG.
BRITISH GuTARIGTS AND
| Toe rs TRUMENT was PUT
BACK WTO REosAR  [f
PROCUCTION BY GIBSON
JULY 1968!

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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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