Dan Armstrong Signature I
Body is solid Alder, satin Maple neck with 23 fret Rosewood fingerboard
Pickups - 1 Maxi and 1 Mini-bucker
Master volume and tone controls
Floyd Rose licensed trem
Black hardware, available in Black (WEA100BK) or White (WEA100WH)
Dan Armstrong Signature III
As the I, except for -
Pickups - 1 Rock Monster, 1 Mini-bucker
Bridge - fixed die cast
Colours - Black (WEA300BK), Ivory (WEA300IV), White (No model number
given)
Both models (There is no Dan Armstrong Signature II) feature in the
1990 'A Sign
Of The Times' catalogue
I was sent a text file along with the pictures below, I have no idea
who wrote it or where it came from. Here it is -
and a rare
Westone prototype model which never went into full production (about
100 or less were assembled).
This
is the 2nd headstock design. Originally the headstock was sort of like
a Fender mandolin,with a 4+2 tuner configuration. We told Dan it was
too much like a Fender but he wasn't too concerned about it. When the
model debuted at the NAMM show Ernie Ball claimed a copyrght on the 4+2
headstock(despite Gretsch and others having produced such a design both
before and since). This caused a cessation of production. Despite the
new design for a 3+3 configuration the project was ultimately scrapped.
Among the unique features are
humbucking pickups of Dans own design which he patented (note that they
are of different sizes), and a 23 fret fingerboard (essential to Dans
phlosophy of the rythym PU poles being right at the harmonic point of
the 24th fret octave); also a unique upper bout crested contoured body
shape ( a couple of years after this, St. Louis Music made guitars
using the remaining bodies but they were not countoured and so didn't
look very good). This guitar is wonderful with a variety of unique
tones both single and double coil .
The black model shows the 4+2 headstock design, the white one has the
revised 3+3 headstock. These pictures are supposed to be of prototypes
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