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Post by guitarzan on May 17, 2005 20:17:52 GMT -5
Does anyone remember Global guitars? When I was 12 or 13, My mom got me a Global SG copy for x-mas, it was cherry red, had some kind of h-bucker pickups in it, a bolt-on neck, and I was thinking about that guitar the other day, and it occured to me I've been playing pretty regularly since I got that guitar. I kinda miss it. Played it thru a HUGE Peavey bass stack, with my MXR Distortion plus, which I still have, and still works! I've had a lot of guitars since that Sears special, and if it wasn't for my mom, I probably would never have took it up. Thanx Mom!! ;D
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Post by hcoll on Oct 3, 2006 11:20:36 GMT -5
...hey guitarzan......... ...I have a Global....it's an acoustic.........a yard sale special my wife found years ago for our girls......the most use it ever got was when the older whacked her younger sister over the head with it.......it got put away in the back of a closet......I found it a while back in it's cardboard box when the closet got cleaned out.......decided to re-string it and keep it as a display item......neck scale approx 22.25"............... i113.photobucket.com/albums/n238/hcoll/IMG_0574.jpg |
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Post by noeljob on Oct 3, 2006 16:38:40 GMT -5
wow, sears guitars..... my first p.o.s was a sears explorer, i guess about 1980. the name of this line was "effector". it had some very fake sounding active fx built right in, alot of buttons to push in & out so to speak to get the desired sound. i actually traded it for 1947 gretsch hollow body 3/4 scale that has long since been sold. airline was also another sears line of guitars. i had an acoustic but its long gone also.
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Post by Jimboe on Oct 6, 2006 9:17:43 GMT -5
;D Welcome home, noeljob. If my memory serves me correctly, Montgomery Ward used to sell Airline instruments also.
Jim
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Post by hcoll on Oct 6, 2006 15:11:41 GMT -5
...is this the ancestor of the Esteban............
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Post by noeljob on Oct 6, 2006 18:23:21 GMT -5
thanks jimbo. well i believe you are right it was M/W. i just remember a dept. store. it was long long ago. im surprised i even remember that much.  |
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Post by Jimboe on Oct 7, 2006 8:34:04 GMT -5
...is this the ancestor of the Esteban............ and just as useful, I`m certain. Jim |
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Post by hcoll on Oct 8, 2006 19:19:30 GMT -5
....real quality....always in tune....a dream to play.........
....ouch....my nose just grew...... ;D
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Post by 3chordhippie on Aug 5, 2008 21:36:09 GMT -5
Wow thought I was the only one who liked these old girls. Recently found a Global single humbucker SG Cherry Burst Global at the flea market with a matching Global Amp, set me back $10.00  Took her home polished her up new strings and setup. Sounded almost like an old Teisco Surf Twang YEA. |
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Post by jimmy2112 on May 18, 2012 2:42:30 GMT -5
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Took her home polished her up new strings and setup. Sounded almost like an old Teisco Surf Twang YEA.