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Electric guitar

Date1965-1969 ca.

Place MadeÄlvdalen, Sweden, Europe

ModelViking

DescriptionThis Hagström Viking body was sent to James D'Aquisto during the development of the Hagström Jimmy model, which debuted in 1969. It had a neck on it at one point, but does not appear to have ever had a tailpiece or bridge, so it was an unfinished instrument for D'Aquisto to take apart and examine in the development of his own design for Hagström to manufacture. It was acquired as part of the D'Aqusito workshop items still in the possession of the D'Aquisto family until these materials were acquired by the NMM in 2007.

Double cutaway, thin-line hollow body electric guitar
Stringing: six steel strings
Soundboard: arched, one piece birch plywood
Back: arched, one piece birch plywood
Sides: one-piece, luan plywood
Head and neck: missing
Heel cap: none; bolt-on neck plate missing
Binding: white celluloid; trim comprised of two-ply black and white plastic strips on top
Endpin: none; no hole drilled
Soundholes: f-holes
Lacquer: brown sunburst on top and back; black sides; lacquer checking
Linings: kerfed maple
Neck block: birch
End block: none
Top bracing: none; pine or spruce block extending from top to back below lower pickup cavity
Pickups: cavities for two pickusp and four knobs, with jack plug hole on lower bass side of sides; selector switch hole on upper bass side of top
DimensionsBack length (from neck heel to center of lower edge): 455 mm (21-11/32″)
Upper bout width: 286 mm (14-3/32″)
Waist width: 231 mm (11-15/16″)
Lower bout width: 406 mm (18-3/8″)
Rib height (including edging) at heel: 41 mm (3-3/8″)
Rib height, at waist: 43 mm (3-11/32″)
Rib height, at end block: 48 mm (3-1/4″)
Soundhole length: 169 mm (6-13/16″)

Credit LinePurchase funds gift of Erwin Gudelsky Foundation, 2007

Object number15077

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