Keith Richards 5 String, Newman-Jones ?

[Mahogany]

Is this guitar a Ted Newman-Jones ?
Does anyone have any other information and pictures of this
guitar ?
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq322/MKULTRA63/Keef2.jpg
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq322/MKULTRA63/Keef.jpg

[EL 34 X2]

Looks very much like a Ted Newman Jones style guitar. Jones built a few guitars for Richards in the same time period. I've never seen this particular guitar before though. I wonder if this one might be the prototype of the one with the more traditional lower cut away, like the guitars James Honeyman-Scott and Tom Petty also used.

[todd richman]

It is one of several TNJ built for KR.

[blanche]

agree that it looks like a modified or prototype version of the shape I've seen elsewhere. I worked with a guy several decades ago who had a few of them, including a 5 string that was made to be a 5, with a custom made bridge and all (not really like the one in the posted photo of Keith)

The body shape on the ones I saw all looked like the one Mike Campbell is playing in this video (go to 1:07 for a clear shot) and they were much more "finished" looking compared with that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKDYErlu5Kc

[Mahogany]

My suspicion has been that the guitar in question evolved into this one.
( Which later became the Chandler Austin Special. )
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq322/MKULTRA63/1977fieldwnewmanjonesguro7.jpg

[ncturtle]

One of these like the pic with the boogie are on display near the bar at the Hard rock in Barcelona.

[wichita]

I was involved in the Chandler Austin Special deal. I helped set that up for Ted.

Here is a 1990 photo of Keith and I with my Newman
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc132/lancekeltner/LanceandKeith.jpg

[smcgov]

My suspicion has been that the guitar in question evolved into this one.
( Which later became the Chandler Austin Special. )
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq322/MKULTRA63/1977fieldwnewmanjonesguro7.jpg

I love the Mark I, there was a good article in VG mag...

[theatomicjeff]

I was involved in the Chandler Austin Special deal. I helped set that up for Ted.

Here is a 1990 photo of Keith and I with my Newman


That is cool = not everyone can boast that they've had their picture taken with such a legend. Congrats!

[Chrome Dinette]

I really like the way the lower horn(or lack thereof) looks on the first two pics. Some Pagelli's have a lower hon sort of like this, perhaps he was influenced by this.

[RV52]

I remember that guitar in the first two pics very well.
Three shows in a row I was first row right in front of Keith.
Rolling Stones 1973 tour that was.

[Mahogany]

Well, post those instamatic photos.

[walterw]

I love the Mark I, there was a good article in VG mag...
check that crazy EQ setting on it! midrange, anyone?

[slavenoid]

Here are the two that I have.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38276223@N05/?saved=1

[todd richman]

slavenoid-those are cool -especially the brown one with the Duncan P-Rails.

[off2kamp]

I was involved in the Chandler Austin Special deal. I helped set that up for Ted.

Here is a 1990 photo of Keith and I with my Newman
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc132/lancekeltner/LanceandKeith.jpg

Things like this make me love this place. SWEET!

[slavenoid]

Interesting story on that one. I bought it on ebay from a guy who claimed that TNJ made it for him and when delivered a year late was terrible. What I received was a disassembled guitar that could never have been played. Scale was way off. When put together neck angle was probably 20 degrees wrong. I had a luthier shorten the neck (was able to save the last fret) and completely re configure the thing. I chose the P rails to replace the Seymour humbuckers. The guitar is very versatile now and plays almost perfectly. It is a good compliment to the way way hot other guitar with the active EMGs which are twice as loud as any guitar I have.