NGD - BEHOLD THE ULTRAVIOLET V80

[Philly Q]

It may have been that ideas were tossed back and forth between Ted and his team and maybe Ted took the credit for it all - I don't know for sure...I'm just repeating what I was told

I'm imagining them all sitting in Lord Sugar's boardroom now, looking daggers at each other...

[Andrew W]

Apparently it was Seth Lover of all people who designed the V...although McCartey's name appears on the patents

That's interesting - someone somewhere is telling porkie pies then:

http://www.vintageguitar.com/2826/ted-mccarty/

Q: Obviously, I need to ask about those late-’50s futuristic guitars – the Flying V, the Explorer, and any Moderne prototypes – since they’ve become such collector’s items.

Ted: I personally designed those. Fender was talking about how Gibson was a bunch of old fuddie-duddies, and when I heard that through the grapevine, I was a little peeved. So I said, “Let’s shake ‘em up.” I wanted to come up with some guitar shapes that were different from anything else.

Was Seymour Duncan who told me about the V and Seth Lover - I had asked him all about Seth one time when he was over in London and he spoke at length about him and said that he came up with the body shape on the V - mainly so it could stand up on it's own.

It may have been that ideas were tossed back and forth between Ted and his team and maybe Ted took the credit for it all - I don't know for sure...I'm just repeating what I was told

That's really interesting, and was something I'd not heard before. Also I guess it's something we'll never know the truth about now, sadly.