FredZepp Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 Just posted online.... Ren Wall with the Golden Eagle custom made for Prince....
SouthernCanuck Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 Wow, I'd love to know what all the bling is...? Painted fretboard? What are the fret markers... they look purple? Custom paint job on the top? What is on the headstock - can't make it out...? S_C
Gitfiddler Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 Looks like a Prince'd out Byrdland more than a Golden Eagle. See how close the pickups are together, and the Byrdland bail.
Polo Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 Too Cool!!!! Like most Heritage tales I've heard multiple versions about how this guitar came to be.....I'd love to actually hear Ren or one of the old timers to chime in with what they remember about it!
FredZepp Posted April 27, 2016 Author Posted April 27, 2016 More info here... http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2016/04/prince_special_guitar_built_in.html Based on the company's "Golden Eagle" carved archtop hollow-body electric guitar, Heritage co-founder Jim Deurloo remembers needing to customize the guitar's design to create a deeper cutaway than usual. "We never wrote it down," Wall said about the specifics of the 1987 order. After Deurloo made the body and Marv Lamb made the neck, "some guy in Detroit painted it, sent it back and we put the final coat on it," Wall said of the guitar, made in what until two years earlier had been the Gibson Guitar factory. Wall remembers how challenging it was to scrape the white paint off the frets of the white painted fingerboard board so he could set up the guitar with strings. "It was one of a kind," he said of the guitar, which was also fitted with an old Gibson "Byrdland" tailpiece. On April 15, 1987, Wall asked Bill Paige take a photograph of the guitar before the Prince Special, serial number D344, was packed up and shipped off to Prince in Minnesota.
Hfan Posted May 1, 2016 Posted May 1, 2016 I like Jim's hat.. RIP Prince. Wonder if the guitar is still around?
SemiHalo Posted May 1, 2016 Posted May 1, 2016 Makes me want to put on a raspberry beret and rock out with Wendy and her purple Rickenbacker. Prince was an underrated guitarist.
ElNumero Posted May 3, 2016 Posted May 3, 2016 Amazing how many custom one-off's came out of that plant for celebrity artists. The list goes on and on......
tbonesullivan Posted May 3, 2016 Posted May 3, 2016 That's not the only super duper custom guitar prince has had made, that's for sure. Who knows what will be coming out of his estate now that he has passed on, especially if he didn't leave a will, as many have said.
Hfan Posted May 4, 2016 Posted May 4, 2016 forgot how to imbed a you tube here..good one https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
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