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The Egmond Solid
7
(standard type) to the left,
with two cut-outs. Probably 1958
or 1959.
The Egmond Super Solid 7 in the mittle, with the new style double cut-out. Probably 1960. The Egmond Bass 7 (the Solid 7 family bass) to the right, with one cut-out. Probably 1960. The Solid 7
was launched in the late 50's (around
1957). It was normally an ES113/22M2CA
with 2 pickups. When having 3 pickups
(and mostly a tremolo) it was an
ES113/23M2CA and was also called the Super
Solid 7. The name makes you
think it was a solid body guitar, but
it wasn't, it was a hollow body guitar
without any sound hole. That made it
lighter and more sloshy than a solid
body guitar. The Bass 7
was the complementary bass to the Solid 7
and was an EB113/32M2CA. The body
shape was, at first, as the one to the
left above, i.e. with two symmetric
cut-outs, on the guitars. And the bass
had one cut-out, as the one to the
right above. Then Egmond came up with
the new style double cut-out, as the
one in the middle above and that shape
was later on all guitars in the Solid
7 series. These guitars had no
truss-rods, so their necks were bent
after some time. Later (maybe around
1964) the Solid 7 got a
truss-rod, and then (probably 1966) it
was renamed Flash.
The Egmond Solid 7
series, as they
looked like in the 1965 catalog.
The Flash
could be bought with a standard setup, as
a Flash 2ES1 or a Flash 3ES1,
having two or three pickups. And there was
the bass version Flash 2EBS1.
As shown here in the 1966 catalog:
The Egmond Flash
series, as they looked like in the
1966 catalog.
Then it could be bought in the luxury
version called Flash 2EL2, that
can be seen tested, the very last few
seconds in the 1966 movie clip from the
factory, that you find in "The
Egmond story" tab:
An Egmond Flash
2EL2 production
document.
Inspection during the
manufacturing of Egmond Flash
2EL2
in Best.
Egmond
also made the Rosetti
Solid 7 version, for the UK
market. Here is an example of another
luxury version, i.e. the Rosetti
Sheerline 7:
And here
is the Rosetti Super Solid 7.
Having the same setup as my guitar
originally had. However, this Rosetti
has a sunburst and is more decorated:
Another Egmond Super Solid 7. The most common colors were this green, my red, and "sunburst" as the Rosetti above: An Egmond Super
Solid 7. The picture
belongs to Fab-guitars
(www.fab-guitars.com)
.
In 1968, Egmond replaced the Flash design with a new and completely different Flash: The Egmond Flash 2EBS1
and Flash 3ES1, as they
looked like in the 1968
catalog.
This is how my Egmond Super Solid 7 looks like now. It is probably made in 1959 or 1960: This is
what it looked like when I got it. A
fast look and it seems OK. But a
closer look reveals some issues:
The neck
was severely bent, so it was not really
playable.
The
pickguard with integrated pickups, was
cracked and almost into two pieces.
All three pickups had broken windings,
so they had to be rewound or replaced.
The original bridge was a
special Egmond design. It was
simple but yet quite handy. Its action
was that it lifted the strings, i.e.
increased the tension, and so
sharpened the tone. This kind of
bridge/tremolo can not lower the tone.
In the 1962 catalog it looked like this: The combined Egmond tremolo arm and bridge, as it looked like in the 1962 catalog. I
already had two Egmond
pickups, of the same kind as on the
Rosetti Sheerline 7, above. I
also already had an Egmond
6/319 tremolo tailpiece:
The Egmond tremolo tailpieces, as they looked like in the 1968 catalog. I
decided to use the pickups and the
tremolo tailpiece. So I had to
make a new pickguard, but I wanted
it to look similar to the original
pickguard. I used a cutting-board
as raw material and the broken
pickguard as a template. I cut out
a suitable hole in the body for
the tailpiece, and I replaced the
DIN connector with a standard 1/4"
connector, of Stratocaster style.
I also straightened the neck and
re-glued the fretboard.
The holes for the tremolo tailpiece and for the connector is made. I made a
new bridge of aluminium and re-used the
potentiometers, knobs and switches from
the broken original pickguard.
One
tuning-key was broken, so I replaced all
of them.
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