Westone Dan Armstrong Signature I and III

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
All Dan Armstrong models are post-Matsumoku guitars

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
Dan Armstrong prototype