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Year: 1967 (Circa)
Manufacturer: Hagstrom
Model: I (#HAG0001)
Case: Original Soft
Color: Sky Blue
Condition: Excellent
Description: 1960’s Hagstrom I, Rare Sky Blue finish, Two great single coils pickups, Tremolo, EC, OSSC, $1,295
 
pretty cool in a funky way, no way would I ever play anything near that price for it.
 
Cool from an historical perspective.
For some reason I imagine that little bolt or whatever it is under my forearm would hurt after a while.

EG
 
Hmmmm, a plastic guitar, with bolt-together body halves - interesting. I've read that Hagstron did some pretty funky things in the 60s. But still, I don't know if I can get into the veg-o-matic switching, and clunky looking, permutation of a Burns vibrato. Maybe for $500, but not $1300, unless it's a killer playing, great sounding instrument.
 
meh. The neck joint alone is enough to scare me off. The trem, mini switches, and whatever is going on between the pickups also looks pretty sketchy. I know these are popular these days, as are a lot of the quirky 60's guitars, but most of the guitars from this vintage and type I have played were craptastic.
 
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ellengtrgrl said:
Hmmmm, a plastic guitar, with bolt-together body halves - interesting. I've read that Hagstron did some pretty funky things in the 60s. But still, I don't know if I can get into the veg-o-matic switching, and clunky looking, permutation of a Burns vibrato. Maybe for $500, but not $1300, unless it's a killer playing, great sounding instrument.
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Something like this, though my price would be a bit lower.. Something about really old plastic body guitars worries me as far as durability too. I would love to try it though.
 
paulskirocks said:
I wonder if it has gotten brittle and would explode into a gadzillion pieces if smashed on stage...
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we had one in the music school that sold for $600 last year. the neck isn't painted black. it's a plastic coating. and the truss rod, which only goes back to the 2nd fret or so, had started to push through and was making an indentation. it hadn't come all the way through, but you could see where it was going to seperate.

they're cool looking instruments, but that's about it.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
we had one in the music school that sold for $600 last year. the neck isn't painted black. it's a plastic coating. and the truss rod, which only goes back to the 2nd fret or so, had started to push through and was making an indentation. it hadn't come all the way through, but you could see where it was going to seperate.

they're cool looking instruments, but that's about it.
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So the truss rod doesn't go all the way up to the nut? That's really cheesy from an engineering standpoint, because you're singnificantly increasing the possibility of the neck bowing/deforming between the nut and the 2nd fret.
 
ellengtrgrl said:
So the truss rod doesn't go all the way up to the nut? That's really cheesy from an engineering standpoint, because you're singnificantly increasing the possibility of the neck bowing/deforming between the nut and the 2nd fret.
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which is exactly what happened. and why we sold it. even at half price to this one, it was stupid money.
 
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