Identifying weird guitars

[Philly Q]

They also remind me of the old Washburn Wing series and Daion guitars:

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/washburn/wing/wing.html

http://home.att.net/~daion/electrics.html

[AndyR]

thats definately it - few small changes but definately the same guitar design

and from the same factory as the westones... as well as aria pro's which are the other make i was thinking of... and it looks like they made epiphone crestwoods which is the shape i was thinking of.

Yep, that's the one isn't it :D

I was wondering Aria as well yesterday evening but couldn't think what to search for or find any pics to back me up.

I do remember the scrolly Vantage writing now, and I also remember them looking "like" our westones, but not as sleek and sexy. What I didn't know was they were from the same place! :lol:

[gingataff]

Looks like Ed Winn, of Ozric Tentacles', guitar...

His is an Ibanez.

[maverickf1jockey]

And it has a carved top; I was going off of the silhouette alone.

[Johnny Mac]

They also remind me of the old Washburn Wing series and Daion guitars:

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/washburn/wing/wing.html

http://home.att.net/~daion/electrics.html

A mate of mine has one of these. He can't play it too good but wants to keep it. How much would you say its worth?
It has brass hardware and sustains for ever! Not good on upper fret access though. Made in the early 80's.

[Philly Q]

A mate of mine has one of these. He can't play it too good but wants to keep it. How much would you say its worth?
It has brass hardware and sustains for ever! Not good on upper fret access though. Made in the early 80's.

I've no real idea of the value, and I'm not very good at telling which model is which, but the neck-through ones always seem to go for £400+ on eBay. 

I'm always quite tempted to buy one, because they take me back to the days when I was a student looking in shop windows at guitars I couldn't afford to buy.  But I know they all weigh a ton - those were the days when they thought:

secret of tone = heavy wood + chunky brass hardware.