I am blown away with the depth of your knowledge and detailed research. Your articles are well written and captivate the reader right to the end. Keep on writing, you will always have an interested audience.
Great article — many thanks! I’ve played 360F guitars with and without the tilted so-called “jazz” neck (approximately a 3-degree tilt, I believe): The flat-neck allows the strings to bounce around as they seem to be under less tension; the tilt makes them so much more playable. Just my humble opinion…
One other note: I happened to set a 360F next to my Gibson ES-5 — and the body shape and outer dimensions were identical.
re: "The deluxe models had the triangle inlays and bound necks found on the Capri models, but added fancier two-ply checkered binding on the body. The standard guitars, by contrast, had no binding and simple dot inlays."
I guess it depends how you read that, but the standard guitars had bound necks.
Would be cool to add that the binding progressed from black, to black/white, to checked over the run...
Typo, plain and simple. Funny thing is I had originally used the face-on photo of this guitar—correctly labeled—then swapped it out for this angled view to show the body thickness. Fixed, and thanks Ron!
Tibor Kovarik
I am blown away with the depth of your knowledge and detailed research. Your articles are well written and captivate the reader right to the end. Keep on writing, you will always have an interested audience.
Great article — many thanks! I’ve played 360F guitars with and without the tilted so-called “jazz” neck (approximately a 3-degree tilt, I believe): The flat-neck allows the strings to bounce around as they seem to be under less tension; the tilt makes them so much more playable. Just my humble opinion…
One other note: I happened to set a 360F next to my Gibson ES-5 — and the body shape and outer dimensions were identical.
re: "The deluxe models had the triangle inlays and bound necks found on the Capri models, but added fancier two-ply checkered binding on the body. The standard guitars, by contrast, had no binding and simple dot inlays."
I guess it depends how you read that, but the standard guitars had bound necks.
Would be cool to add that the binding progressed from black, to black/white, to checked over the run...
Excellent points that I have incorporated!
Andy, nice article. The "335F 1959"is actually a 1958 issue and one of the last F bodies routed out from the back.
Typo, plain and simple. Funny thing is I had originally used the face-on photo of this guitar—correctly labeled—then swapped it out for this angled view to show the body thickness. Fixed, and thanks Ron!