Reverend Gallery

[Paul Conway]

OMG: http://reverendguitars.com/reverend/...silver_jpg.htm

[Paul Conway]

PPS......has anyone got a rockhide Rev? When they were announced, I recoiled in horror, but having looked again on the archive, the black one looks v.cool...

[Jon Silberman]

Mike Duncan, did you sell your orange rockhide Wolfie or do you still have it?

[Glenn_K]

He's got it I think. Someday it will either be worth a fortune or just a guitar nobody wants. It's the wrinkled pumpkin guitar.

[Crazyquilt]

Paul, I zeroed in on the same Rocco, even before I saw that you'd pointed it out in specific. That is just tres cool.

I wonder where it came from/how it came about?

[portsider]

I own this one.
http://reverendguitars.com/reverend/...to_blu_jpg.htm

[stratman5]

Portsider, is that the first production run of the js 390 and if so do you know how many were made?. That is the guitar I am looking for.
Thanks,
stratman5

[portsider]

Originally Posted by stratman5

Portsider, is that the first production run of the js 390 and if so do you know how many were made?. That is the guitar I am looking for.
Thanks,
stratman5

No, it is the original Prototype. Solid alder, one of a kind. :BEER
I believe they made 12 of each color in the first production run. There were three colors, so a total of 36. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure Joe said that at some point.

[john1056]

This one needs to be in production!!!


I have 1 of the 12 of these

[Crazyquilt]

Originally Posted by john1056

This one needs to be in production!!!

That's also quite stylin'. I'm guessing that's a prototype -- I know there were honey Chargers, but that isn't quite the same body shape or pickguard.

[john1056]

Originally Posted by Crazyquilt

That's also quite stylin'. I'm guessing that's a prototype -- I know there were honey Chargers, but that isn't quite the same body shape or pickguard.

Its interesting. An old style pickguard, and it looks like an Eastpointe Neck... could Joe have been thinking about a woodie back then?

[Joe Naylor]

Originally Posted by john1056

Its interesting. An old style pickguard, and it looks like an Eastpointe Neck... could Joe have been thinking about a woodie back then?

That's a body I built in my Kalamazoo basement in the late 80's. It's a semi-hollow with mahogany sides/center block and spruce top and back. In terms of design and structure, it's a predecessor to both the USA and Stage King guitars.

Around '91, a friend bought just the body, and then brought it back 13 years later to have it put together! Hence the Reverend neck and pickguard.

[Paul Conway]

I think that guitar (the proto-prototype?) has real charm. In some ways, I prefer it to the charger, etc.

[john1056]

Originally Posted by Paul Conway

I think that guitar (the proto-prototype?) has real charm. In some ways, I prefer it to the charger, etc.

+1, that body style is a keeper!!!

[Crazyquilt]

The only thing I dont' like about the proto-prototype is that there's no "dip" in the body by the top of the fretboard. I know LPs don't have them either, but I still prefer a Tele-like upper bout to an LP-like one.

But if I could get one, I wouldn't quibble.