EKO El Guacho, Maccafferi-copy nylon

Stackabones

Anyone seen these before?



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EKO-El-Gaucho-Rar ... dZViewItem

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B25Gib

Obviously an interesting specimen! Looks like the luthier used some styles from maybe other regions like the inlaid rosette which is common from Hora Mfg in Romania and somewhat of a stiff looking bridge/moustache combination and mixed in his own idea about decoration on the rosette long tail.
My only exposure to an EKO instrument was back in the mid 60's when I tried to jam with a navy kid with a blonde archtop that was so out of intonation against my '55 Gibson ES-295 that we quit after 15 minutes. He was a decent player though.
I'd certainly like to tryout that instrument though!
Rocky

Josh Hegg

There is another one of those at Palm guitars. The one at palm is a bit different then this one.

Cheers,
Josh

delsbrother

It looks very similar to my EKO fretless ABG. If you go to http://www.ekobass.co.uk/gallery.html you can see some other examples - my particular one doesn't have the funky bridge or "note" rosette, but you can't have everything!