Westone Clipper Six
Not much info on this one - single humbucker, no trem. Different
headstock shape from the other Clipper Series guitars.
UPDATE - INFO FROM MAY 1987 GUITARIST MAG REVIEW
Through body stringing 22 frets, ebony fingerboard, 24.75" scale. Body
made from 'selected hardwoods'. Gotoh machine heads, plastic nut.
When is a humbucker not a humbucker? When it's on a Clipper Six. I
thought originally that the two switches must be for phase and coil tap
- they're not. The pickup is a humbucker wired as two separate single
coil pickups, the two switches switch the two coils on or off. One end
of each coil is permanently wired to earth, so the pickup will not
function as a true humbucker.
(According to the August 1987 review the pickup is
a humbucker. Either there had been a design change, or one review is
wrong. If there was no design change then the earlier review is
probably more accurate as the review had obviously had a look at the
wiring of the pickup)
RRP in May 1987 was £149 (Source - Clipper 6 review May 1987)
There are four models in the Clipper series, the CL2011,
CL3012, CL4112
and Clipper Six
The Cliper Six is the only Clipper model not to appear in the 1988
catalogue, presumably it was no longer in production. It may not have
been available in the US (There is no mention of it in the pricelists)
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