Chicago Music Exchange | 3 years ago
Sam wants to be very clear: with a rosewood fretboard, bonkers 3-position toggle switch, and swappable pickups, this Lucite 1969 Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar rocks. So come on in. Stop by. Play it. Buy it. Say hey. Say hey to Sam. You know, if you want.
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The Space Age inspired an era of fanciful guitar designs, like Gibson’s 1958 entrants, the Flying V and Explorer. Not as well known, but no less revolutionary, was Ampeg’s 1969 Dan Armstrong guitar, a comparatively late arrival that was just as eye catching and memorable.
The guitar featured a clear body made of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a substance that had been around since the 1930s and offered commercially as Plexiglas, Lucite and Perspex.
Decidedly modernistic for its day, the Dan Armstrong guitar featured an outré design that kept it from being a major hit in the commercial sense, but its uptake by several star players quickly enshrined its status as an odd-duck classic.
The guitar was the product of a collaboration between New York City musician and guitar repairman Dan Armstrong and Ampeg, which then as now was best known for its big bass amps.
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