Tom Curry Guitars

Pearloid Guitar

July 20th, 2008

Pearloid Guitar

Any Guitar nuts? I have a guitar to sell any rough idea how much I could charge for it?

The make is a Vintage Hollowbody Electric- VSA555 Series.

Some tech stuff.

Body – Maple
Top – Maple Laminate
Neck – Maple Set-Neck
Fingerboard – Rosewood
Scale – 24.75″/ 628mm
Frets – 22
Neck Inlays – Abalone/ Pearloid Block
Tuners – Individual Gold Tulip Button
Bridge – Tune-O-Matic with Stop Bar Tailpiece
Pickups – Alnico Double Coil x 2
Hardware – Gold
Controls – 2 Volume/ 2 x Tone/ 3-Way Toggle

The best features of the guitar, are the lovely inlaid pearl blocks on the fretboard, and the colour, a kind of fisheye sunburst, which I had never seen on a guitar before I bought it, and after searching for ages I have still never seen on another guitar. I have had it for a while but is my baby, and there is not so much as a scratch or scuff on it, it’s pristene.

Here’s your definitive answer:
These instruments currently produced in Asia. Distributed by John Hornby Skewes & Co., Ltd. of Garforth (Leeds), England.

The Vintage trademark is the brand name of U.K. distributor John Hornby Skewes & Co., Ltd. These guitars are based on mostly popular American designs at entry-level prices. For more information and specific models and prices, contact JHS directly.
GOOD LUCK!
PS Ebay is NOT a great place to establish value.

John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd.,
Salem House,
Parkinson Approach,
Garforth,
Leeds LS25 2HR,
United Kingdom.

Tel: +44 (0) 1132 865 381
Fax: +44 (0) 1132 868 515