Demartini Anaconda-skin. Pics??

[THETRIUMPHOFSTEEL]

I heard about Warren Demartini's Anaconda skin guitar, that apparently had REAL snakeskin on it..
Has anyone got any pictures of this beast?!

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http://www.jacksoncharvelworld.net/Home.html

<font color="orange"> Check the Ratt pics in the Players folder,that one?? </font>

[HATEMASK]

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It was python skin and he made them himself when he was bored in hotel rooms after shows.bodys were alder I believe the bodys were charvels and some performance.I was told the one from the lay it down video was anaconda skin but not sure of that

[Johnnyryche]

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Here's a couple pics of the anaconda Charvie! One of my favorites. I was very close to having a replica made by GMW but didn't get it ordered before Lee got his cease and desist order. I'm still kicking myself for that one.




I've got some more pics of it around somewhere, along with a recent one from someone here showing it at the Osaka HRC.

[THETRIUMPHOFSTEEL]

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Wicked! The one above, is that the anaconda skin? and I assume the browner one is python skin? That thing is pure bad-ass! How many of these did he have?

[Rupe]

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The Lay it Down guitar is Green Anaconda skin. The other is African Rock Python. Both of these were real snake skin but the Python didn't have any treatment to the skin and was became rough, to the point where he no longer played it. Warren had a clearcoat shot over the Anaconda skin to keep it smooth. I have an article from the 80's where he talks about this.

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The Lay it Down guitar is Green Anaconda skin. The other is African Rock Python. Both of these were real snake skin but the Python didn't have any treatment to the skin and was became rough, to the point where he no longer played it. Warren had a clearcoat shot over the Anaconda skin to keep it smooth. I have an article from the 80's where he talks about this.

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The anaconda skin is more of a grey color than green. I don't believe there is any clear coat on it either.

[Rupe]

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It's the type of snake, not the color of the skin (although they are greenish before you kill them, strip their skin, and stretch it over a guitar body).

If there is no clear coat, then Warren lied in his interview [img]/images/graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]

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Wow, I wasn't aware that the snakeskin would change color that much form green to gray.

In all of the pictures I have of that guitar there doesn't seem to be any kind of clear coat at all on the guitar. Even the latest picture of it at the Hard Rock Osaka shows that it has a very flat sheen to it.

I don't know which exact interview your talking about, but I have an old one I believe in Guitar Player in which Warren states that on that guitar he had the snakeskin put on over the clear coat. Then he went on to say that it made the guitar sound like crap and deadend the tone because he did it that way. So for the python skin guitar, he had it applied directly to the bare wood, no clear coat. He stated that it sounded better that way.

That's the interview I thought you might have been refering to. Regardless, I would love to have that damn guitar! [img]/images/graemlins/drool2.gif[/img]

[Rupe]

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It's been so long that I don't remember the fine details of the article. I just remember he complained about the roughness of the python, so he had a coating put on the anaconda. Perhaps it was a clear matte finish? I don't recall what he said it was other than it served to keep the skin smooth.

[decadentdave]

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Poor little snakeys. What did they ever do to him?

[MikeE]

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I have been thinking of buying the snakeskin tolex they use on amps to cover my beat up 475 body. That plus a Warmoth maple neck would get a nice Warren vibe. Plus, my wife wont give me a hard time for killing snakes [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img].

[slevy007]

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I have heard that as well about the deadened tone. I didn't know that to the barewood sounded alright, though.

slevy007

[skorb]

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I guess this is the python one then?

and since these were Charvels, why no logo on at least the frenchie??

[youthinkyourfish]

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Warren changed his necks many times.... The first appearance of these guitars show Charvel logo'd headstocks.... then, as the years passed, plain headstocks...





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