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• favino881 Strasbourg, France✭✭✭✭

  July 2013 Posts: 46

  Here are a few pics of mine. Still don't know what year it was made in... :-(
  
  
  

  Mundo Swing : http://www.mundoswing.com
• Scoredog Santa Barbara, Ca✭✭✭✭

  July 2013 Posts: 872

  yeah my number is right around where the "Samson" sign is.

  https://www.theidiomatiques.com
  www.scoredog.tv
• J-D. Sauser ✭

  September 2013 Posts: 12

  WHERE have these "Vintage Strings" Guitar been made, and by whom?
  
  Thanks! ... J-D.
• swing68 Poznan, Poland✭✭✭ Manouche Modele Orchestre, JWC Catania Swing

  September 2013 Posts: 121

  They have become JWC guitars after a parting of the ways a couple of years ago.
  
  'Vintage Strings' doesn't mean anything, I think it's a bit of marketing fluff (along with the schoolboy errors in French on my Ferre` [sic] Brothers model ). Manouche Guitars was the name of the original company.
  
  PS #238 says hello to the other members of the Manouche sorority. Louder than life!

  The war on Am7 and Cmaj7 begins here ...
• Michael Bauer Chicago, ILProdigy Selmers, Busatos and more…oh my!

  September 2013 Posts: 1,002

  I was told by someone who was in a position to know that the original guitars were made at the Takamine factory, to Manouche's specs, then shipped, sans hardware, to England, where the hardware was installed and the guitars were set up to play.
  
  I guess you could say they morphed into JWC guitars, but the original intent was for John to have a company called Belleville Guitars, which was going to try to recreate the mojo of those early Manouche Morenos, while Tony was going ahead with luthier made JWC Guitars.
  
  JWC has clearly survived. Belleville Guitars seems to have died on the vine. Too bad, too, because those early Moreno models, once the inevitable neck hump was addressed, were really good guitars for the money, light years ahead of contemporary Gitanes.

  I've never been a guitar player, but I've played one on stage.
• klaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia

  September 2013 Posts: 1,665

  J-D. Sauser wrote:

  WHERE have these "Vintage Strings" Guitar been made, and by whom?
  
  Thanks! ... J-D.

  I believe they were made in Korea.
  
  I used to own #38. Sold it, and I often wish I had kept it. I got it dirt cheap, because it had been used by the distributor as a demo, and it had the dreaded fretboard hump over the neck block, but a little fret work helped with that.

  Benny
  
  "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
  -- Orson Welles
• delb0y ✭✭

  September 2013 Posts: 54

  Please tell me more about the "inevitable" and "dreaded" fretboard hump. Think I might have a little of that. Is this peculiar to the modele jazz or all guitars of this ilk? And what's the cure?
  
  Cheers
  Derek
• klaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia

  September 2013 Posts: 1,665

  Up around the 12-15 fret area, you will sometimes see a bit of a hump in the fretboard which pushes the frets higher. In extreme cases, it can affect playability. I believe they can be caused by overhumidification or the tension created by a truss rod. Bob Holo and other builders on this forum can answer that better than I. If it's not too extreme, a fret dressing can alleviate the playability issues.

  Benny
  
  "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
  -- Orson Welles
• t-bird Portland, Oregon✭ Castelluccia Nuages, Dupont Nomade

  June 2016 edited June 2016 Posts: 119

  #MNA-084 alive and well in Portland, Oregon. Acquired in a trade today. 12 fret D-Hole. Needs some fret work (hopefully that's it) but sounds great as is. Has Bigtone which I plan to replace with a Dupont or Dell'arte bridge. I am really excited about this guitar and plan to post more about it soon.