KENT ELECTRIC GUITARS UPDATE

But the Les Paul-style Swede debuting in 1970 was the guitar that really grabbed guitar players attention, selling well right through the seventies and into the eighties. Other famous users included Frank Zappa who appeared in Hagstrom advertisements with a 12 string guitar, David Bowie, and Jimi Hendrix, with the legendary Eight-stringed bass.

In the latter half of the decade solid bodies were selling well, particularly the Hagstrom II and III, as were the semi-acoustic Viking, finally appearing in the hands of Elvis Presley in 1968. Guitars like the Corvette and Impala helped cemment Hagstrom's reputation as a quality builder, and by 1965 alternate branding was no longer necessary. In the early sixties, Hagstrom produced a number of solid bodies that were distributed by different companies worldwide, often given alternate model names and even different brands for example Hershman in the US labelled some Hagstrom guitars as Goya, whilst Selmer in the UK used the marque Futurama.

Over the next two decades, Hagstrom produced a number of interesting and commercially sucessful guitars, many with a nod towards, Gibson and Fender, but some quite unique designs of their own. By this time, Albin had died (later to be replaced by his son Karl-Erik), but the company's many years experience of accordion manufacture massively influenced the early guitars, with the use of pearloid sparkle finishes and a preference for push-switches over potentiometers more widely used in American guitars. In the second half of the 20th century, however, accordion sales were declining but Hagstrom were there at the beginning of the new guitar boom, producing their first electric, the Hagstrom De Luxe in 1958. By 1932 he had expanded into their manufacture, at a plant in a Swedish town, Älvdalen. Hagstrom was founded by Albin Hagström in 1925, largely dealing in imported accordions.

Hagstrom guitar catalogues Hagstrom guitar history Please call, chat or email for more information.Hagstrom guitar information on this site is sorted into categories: All original but missing headstock sticker. This one is for the player or collector who wants something cool and unusual but not a budget breaker. It's not often you see these types of guitars in this condition as most were first guitars for younger players who played them hard. Playability is a bit better than one might expect from a Japanese import and we set the intonation and action for optimum playability. It also has a very stable and usable tremolo system and its original case. The guitar features two single-coil pickups, a three-way switch, and master volume and tone controls. This lovely specimen is in excellent condition and would be considered mint were it not for some light weather checking. Kent Guitars were also made in Sweden but this model is clearly a MIJ product that was likely the work of Teisco or Guyatone. Kent Guitars were the product of a New York distributor who contracted factories in Japan & elsewhere beginning in 1960 to make models for distribution in the US and other markets.

KENT ELECTRIC GUITARS UPDATE

Update as of 9/9/19 - Price reduction and we've added additional cell phone photos. For your consideration is this 1970s Kent Hollowbody in Sunburst.

Kent electric guitars