Tom's Red Proto Soloist

[JacksonShredder]

Looks real to me even though the Floyd looks like it was added and the tunners changed
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[sully]

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how cool!! that logo looks *****in!

sully

[777SteveVai777]

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That is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[yogadork]

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Now thats one for the Gallery.

[Soloist1]

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Joe actually Spacey T's did have that Gibson Explorer type headstock. Bret has a picture of it in the archives of his site. It looks damn close to the same guitar except for the pickup config, binding, trem, controls and the black hardware. They were probably built pretty close together though.
http://www.sandimascharvel.com

[Jim Shine]

Re: Tom\'s Red Proto Soloist

How many were made and how did they vary from each other? Are they real prototypes, or are they pre-productions?

[Guest]

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Yeah baby! I'd say that's real! Hey wait a minute.... is this one made of basswood? I heard about one like this that Grover had for sale made out of basswood.

[toejam]

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Man, that's sweet, but it's got that Kramer dildo headstock!

[Newc]

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Spacey T's is a single hum one knob non trem (white nut, no locks) with the same head. I'm looking at the pic of that ad right now.

Newc

[JacksonShredder]

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http://www.sandimascharvel.com/bigad.jpg

[toejam]

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Who is that with the green Strathead between Steve Vai and Amir Derahk? It looks a little like Bruce Kulick, but I can't tell. [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

[sevser]

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Toejam: He was in Keel.
Soloist1 was saying it could be from the same batch. When I said it lookd like Spacey t's (in the other post) I knew it wasn't the same guitar but I remember a loooong time ago some one mentioned how Grover made a couple set necks and Spacey's was one of them. This must have been around the same time. You would think?

[Newc]

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Actually that's the other guy from Rough Cutt (Chris Jager? Lager? can't read the first letter)

Newc

[diablomozart]

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green strathead guy is marc ferrari from keel...curious side note...no charvel logo on the guitar...it's a decal of a bullet where the logo would be...d.m.

[jr73]

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WHOS is that...ide love to see it in person.
is the a setneck or just a line in the photo.