In the fall of 1983, the Electra Brand becomes Electra Phoenix.
Some Korean production began in the early 80's. By around 1981 ties with Matsumoku further solidified and decision eventually made to merge SLM's Electra brand with Matsumoku's Westone brand. Open-book headstocks changed to wave or fan shape by 1978. In 1975 the Tree-of-Life guitars debut with a leaf pattern carved into the top, and the Electra line expanded to 25 models. The first guitar, simply called The Electra, was a copy of the Ampeg Dan Armstrong lucite guitar and issued in 1971, followed quickly by a variety of bolt-neck copies of other brands. The Electra line replaces SLM's Japanese made Apollo and US made Custom Kraft lines. Most of the instruments were made by Matsumoku in Matsumoto Japan.
#ELECTRA WESTONE GUITAR X 185 SERIES#
It was the only model in all the Electra Phoenix/ Westone Spectrum series to be available in a sunburst finish.Įlectra guitars were imported from Japan by St.
The second series was almost a different model entirely- no pickguard, it had pickups mounted flush against the body, like all Phoenix models to follow.
#ELECTRA WESTONE GUITAR X 185 SERIAL#
Most had a brass '1982 commemorative anniversary' plate on the back of the headstock with an additional serial number. The first series was a deluxe version of the X130 model with special metallic paint and black pickguard like the X130, brass nut, trem bridge, brass knobs. This guitar was a bolt neck double cutaway with ash body, maple neck, chrome hardware, and three single coil pickups with 3-way selector and fat switch (middle on), and brass knobs. This one had the H-S-S (humbucker, single, single) configuration on the pickups while it originally had a S-S-S set up. It's a modified version of the X-145 (vintage sunburst color, X-145VS) guitar they produced. I found out it was made in 1982 by the Matsumoku plant in Japan. This was also the only MPC that came with a little light to tell you the effects were on or not.I picked up this guitar in August of 2008 and it has a market value of $102.50. This double cutaway guitar can be best described as a modified Les Paul Jr. It features a solid mahogany body, 2 open coil black Super Magnaflux pickups, rosewood fingerboard. This is the rare Leslie West Signature model X120. The most notable was the Super Rock, which was a Les Paul copy. There were a total of 18 guitar models which carried MPC circuits. Today the unusual thing is that the effects are on board, but even offering electronic effects to consumer musicians was fairly new at the time and offers an interesting alternate way to do it. In 1976 Electra introduced a series of MPC (Modular Powered Circuits) guitar models featured a pair of cartridge slots in the guitar body, which allowed effect modules to be plugged in and controlled from the front of the guitar. The same qualities make them popular among collectors today. However, the brand never entirely lost its association with inexpensive 'copy' guitars and the brand name was transitioned to Electra Westone in 1984 and Westone in 1985. Later, as all models came to be made by Matsumoku, Electra guitars offered high quality at competitive prices. As a result, early models especially vary in details and quality. Unlike most other brands of imported guitars which were sourced from a single manufacturer, Electra guitars were ordered from all the Japanese factories and distributors. Electra was a brand of electric guitars and basses manufactured in Japan and distributed in the US by two companies owned by brothers: Saint Louis Music (SLM) and Pacific Coast Music in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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