Rare Washburn??

[jgcable]

I was wondering if there are any Washburn fans here? I think I have a rare one in my collection and I didn't even know it.
I have a 1984 Washburn Mirage Pro which is better known as the Roger Waters Mirage. It has a piezo and a humbucker, its a chambered body. It has a sound hole but its not open to the body. It has a badge in the sound hole that says George Washburn, Handmade with the serial number and Mirage Pro. Its black with red binding and red fret markers. Treble, Middle and Gain active EQ for the piezo and a volume, tone and a 3 way toggle for the humbucker and pickup selection. It has an acoustic type pinned bridge. The action is in between an electric and an acoustic. Its a very nicely made guitar. I found a picture of Roger Waters playing one and there is a video from the late 80's showing him playing one live. I was told it was specifically made for him but after being sued by Ovation and Gibson (for their Chet Atkins SST model) they stopped making them. A guy came over a few weeks ago and when he saw it he literally flipped out. I have owned it for a while and didn't really look into what it was.
Here is a link to some info on it... http://www.watersish.com/archives/cat_guitars.html

I put it up on local Craigslist and I have been getting hammered by requests and offers to buy or trade for it. I have it listed for $600 and I think I may be way too low!!!

[jgcable]

I guess is must be so rare that nobody ever heard of it.

[xenophobe]

There are a whole bunch of rare Washburn sigs from the 80's. Try finding a Brad Gillis, Schenker or whatever... I'm sure they come up from time to time. How much they're worth? I dunno.

[Larz]

There are a lot of followers of Washburn guitars from that era, specifically the ones made in Japan by Matsumoku, known as the Uncle Matt guitars. He also worked on Aria, Epiphone, etc.

See if you can find it here maybe, via serial number or model info:

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/models.html

If you're date is correct, that would place it in that manufacturing era and that might be driving some of the interest.

I have an 84' Washburn A-20V which still plays amazing.

[Emerald]

See if the Vintage Washburn site is of any help. It is run by my good friend Darren Drewek. My contribution is on the Steve Stevens signature models: http://www.vintagewashburn.com/Elect...ctricMain.html

http://www.vintagewashburn.com/Electrics/SteveStevens.html

Emerald

[data187]

awesome article on the SS guitars!

[MuttznMongrelz]

I always liked the Steve Stevens Models, the Raven/Falcon/etc. series and even had a KC70 with a Dennis Kline Fly Graphic on it that was pretty cool. Can't say that I have bonded with one though.

[Emerald]

awesome article on the SS guitars!

Thanks that is my pride and joy over 600K views since 2010!!
Emerald