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Just found in another site, good pic of the original strat

Aha !! the good old Boyfriend Star portrait..... I still have my original copy (circa 1960, I think) & its still a favourite..... ... plus have got a few more 'Boyfriend' originals of The Shads both individually & as a group, about 10 I think.
Have also kept other groups from the 60's, Beatles,Stones plus TV 'heart-throbs' !!! that appeared in the magazine, kindly bought for me each week by my Dad, & like many teenage girls of that era, had them virtually covering my bedroom walls !!!
Has anyone else on here kept theirs from that era? or am I the only sentimental one?

Hi Lesley

Nice to see people kept some of these items from way back, any chance of seeing the pictures please?

Thanks

Hank2k wrote:Hi Lesley

Nice to see people kept some of these items from way back, any chance of seeing the pictures please?

Thanks

Hi ........ I would put them on here if I could, but the first prob is that they are too big to scan them on my scanner, secondly, photos of them dont come out too well, & thirdly, I wouldnt have the faintest idea how to get them on the site as my pc knowledge is limited so would need a lot of help on that....

I have an original of this picture and it's interesting to play with the colours on Photoshop. If you put in some yellow to make the zig-zag on the strap cover the right colour the guitar colour ends up surprisingly similar to 'modern' Fiesta Red....but let's not start that all over again. One of the other colour pictures of '346 from the few available where the other colours look fairly accurate shows it as kind of bright fire-engine red. Moral: photos can't be trusted, particularly for renditions of medium red shades.
PD

i do wonder whether that Jumper played a key part in "That Sound" it is really loud

That photo shows the cigarette paper under the 3rd & 4th strings at the nut very well.

rogera wrote:That photo shows the cigarette paper under the 3rd & 4th strings at the nut very well.

It's the sort of thing I used to do with some of the dodgy guitars that I owned as a teenager, I aso remember using Sellotape for various quick fixes. I'm a bit suprised that Hank resorted to such measures, did he use the Strat with the nut in this condition for long?
Henry

Surely wrapping paper around the strings where they cross the nut must have deadened the sound and/or affected the tuning? OK, it may have stopped the strings rattling or whining if the nut slots were too big for the strings, but...???

Well, there were no guitar technicians back then, and Hank was only a 19 year old lad!