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I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Electra guitar brand, it's one of the best guitar I ever owned, great sound easy to play and 5 LBS. less than a Gibson

here is an quick overview for the those interested.

http://www.zuko.com/generation/Music_Musicians_Cove_Guitar_Museum_Electra.asp

Nav4c wrote:I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Electra guitar brand, it's one of the best guitar I ever owned, great sound easy to play and 5 LBS. less than a Gibson

here is an quick overview for the those interested.

http://www.zuko.com/generation/Music_Musicians_Cove_Guitar_Museum_Electra.asp

Those lawsuit guitars are worth a lot in their own right. Funny, I can't afford a fake Les Paul either.

Good looking axe.

I had an Electra once. It was stolen from me by he band I was in. I loved that axe. I wanted to kill them ppl.

Too bad they don't make 'em anymore.

I had customized an Electra Paul years ago and I really liked it. Then I got in a setup job on a 50's tobacco sunburst Les Paul that the store just took in on trade. I really liked the Paint, so I asked the salesman who took it in on trade what he needed to have for it. The salesman had been drooling over my Electra since he played it months before. He really wanted that Electra, and needed a small amount of work done to a Gibson 3/4 scale arch top guitar he recently acquired.

I traded him the Electra and and installed a couple new pickups he bought for the 3/4. Then that tobacco Sunburst came to live at my house. I still have it and I also have a cherry sunburst Epi Les Paul that a friend sent to me to trick me into playing guitar again. That Epi Paul is every bit as nice as the Tobacco, and the workmanship may even be a bit better. He also sent a American Standard Telecaster to me a couple of months later. Both were brand new in hardshell cases.

Obviously it worked because I am playing again because of him and the guitars he sent to me. Now that's a friend for ya. Every now and then I pull out the Pauls and tinker with them, and I do use the Telecaster from time to time. But my Strats rule around here.

Obviously it worked because I am playing again because of him and the guitars he sent to me. Now that's a friend for ya. Every now and then I pull out the Pauls and tinker with them, and I do use the Telecaster from time to time. But my Strats rule around here.
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The music that you play calls for a Strat. I'm partial to the Strat myself when playing bluesy stuff but when playing covers a guitar player has to emulate the original riffs and licks along with the tones produced by the original, that's why almost every guitar player ownes several guitars of different brand.

There are some Amps and pedal boards today with built in featurs designed to replicate the sound and tones of a Gibson or a Fender IMO they fall short of achieving the goal, I guess for somebody who can't efford to buy a bunch of expensive guitars such Amp might be an alternative but for people who have been in the game for awhile chances are they have the guitars necessary to replicate the sound and tone of the tunes they cover.

Nav4c,

How old is your Electra? The one I had had a chambered top. An arched top glued to a flat surface underneath. The gap was only about 1/2" in the center, so it wasn't that hollow.
I do believe that was a part of the great sounds mine got. The pickups were a bit weak in some freqs, but I put better pickups in it almost as soon as I decided it was a keeper. Mine was black. And the tuners went to Grovers after a couple of weeks. Remember the Ventura guitar line?

Slacker I bought mine in 1976 when it was first introduced in the US, by the way you described your Electra looks like you had the same one I have... I think.
The head stock is concaved at the center; later Electra came out with a wing shape head stock due to patent infringement they got sued by Gibson.

In the original post of this thread there is a picture of it if you care to look.

It's a carbon copy of Gibson les Paul with the exception of the pickups selector switch which is a 5 position rotary switch on the Electra as opposed of the flip switch on the Gibson and 4 in line switches located roughly below the bridge, first 2 switches are for volume and tone the other 2 are for the level and frequency of the Phase shifter.


Below the 4 in line switches are 2 toggle switches, one to engage the phase shifter the other to engage the fuzz, however no longer functioning
the module for these effectes got damaged in a rain storm, I didn't bother to replece the module because I had stomp box that gave me the same effects.

BTW the original pickups on my Electra kick ass.

I remember when those came out. I thought the FX modules were too cool. Mine did not have the FX adapter. I think mine was an earlier model. Back then it was really something to have a phaser built right into your guitar. For a while I think I played more phase shifter then I did guitar when shifters first came out.