New guitar day and Info needed from Patrick Eggle Enthusiasts please!

[Brow]

Hey guys.

Just thought I'd show a few quick photos of a guitar I picked up today:







You can't really see it in the headstock pic but all it says is 'Patrick Eggle Guitar Builder'.

From what I can tell it's an Eggle Climaxe, but there may have been a few different versions so this is a guess!  :lol:

The only bits of info I can find on this guitar are here:

http://patrickeggleguitars.org/pg/climaxe1.jpg
http://patrickeggleguitars.org/pg/climaxe2.jpg
http://patrickeggleguitars.org/pg/climaxe3.jpg

The guitar needs a complete setup and a good clean down (some of the frets are slightly rusty!), but for what I got it for I think it was a bit of a steal.

I can't really give too much of an opinion on it at the minute as the strings are dead as anything, but I'm mainly fishing for info on it at the moment. So hopefully an Eggle expert will chime in soon!

Thanks.

[Kilby]

That's real nice :) never seen One of those in the flesh before but they are supposed to be pretty nice.

1st Eggle I have seen with a floyd attached.

[Brow]

That's real nice :) never seen One of those in the flesh before but they are supposed to be pretty nice.

1st Eggle I have seen with a floyd attached.

Thanks for the post :)

The only other Eggle I've ever played was a natural coloured Berlin with Duncans in it. That had a Wilkinson style trem on it if I remember right.

[WezV]

is that an early model then, it certainly looks different to most of the eggles i am familiar with

[Brow]

is that an early model then, it certainly looks different to most of the eggles i am familiar with

I believe so.

It was made at a time either when Eggle was trading under the name of Climaxe Guitars, or it was a very early model from when he just started up as P.E. Guitars, used as a Fore runner to the Berlin.

There's a story around that Paul Reed Smith approached Eggle at a Music Show and asked him to redesign the body and headstock shapes as he felt they were too close to his own designs. This may be why the Berlin looks different?

I dunno how much of what I just said is true, but that's about as much info as I've been able to dig up so far :)

[sgmypod]

http://www.patrickeggleguitars.org/ mentioned on here as a pre PEG

[Kilby]

I believe he produced a few of the early ones while he was still at college.

All the early ones I have seen are either hard tails or have the wilkinson trem that can be locked by letting go of the arm

Itls a lovely looking piece of wood and I prefer the headstock to the later design

[FELINEGUITARS]

I believe he produced a few of the early ones while he was still at college.

Think he was at the London College of Furniture a few years before me......

[sgmypod]

Not an Eggle fan but that is prettier than most

[ailean]

Nice catch. I like it.

[Brow]

Thanks for the posts guys.

I've emailled Patrick through his new website about this guitar, so now I'll wait and see if he replies :)

I found 1 review of this guitar on HC which said it was mahogany with a walnut cap, and 1 in a scanned magazine article that said it was ash with a anegree (??) cap on it.

[roland_rat]

I imagine after a clean up thats going to be quite a nice looking axe. Hope you enjoy it.  I will be intrested to hear if there is a planned pickup change on the way for that one.

[Brow]

I imagine after a clean up thats going to be quite a nice looking axe. Hope you enjoy it.  I will be intrested to hear if there is a planned pickup change on the way for that one.

There quite likely WILL be a pickup swap in mind, there usually is!  :lol: :roll:

[WezV]

and 1 in a scanned magazine article that said it was ash with a anegree (??) cap on it.

thats would have been my guess, definately ash anyway

at first i just thought the top was flamed maple but thats because of the sunburst... looking closer it looks just like nigerian satinwood/movingui.  but anegree is similar as well.. not sure about that one

[dave_mc]

that's very nice, i have no idea about the model etc. though. :lol: i'd send you to the eggle forum, but it looks like you've already checked it... :)