TDC Lynn Ellsworth (boogie bodies)

[Jimbilly]

this is a few months old, but news to me, and a search shows it hasn't been posted here.  I've got 2 Boogie Bodies, and enough parts for a 3rd, had quite a few interactions with him, he was always very excited about the new thing he was working on.   No mention of the amp project he was involved with, Speedster Amplifiers.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/may/05/legendary-electric-guitar-maker-lynn-ellsworth-die/

[Jimbilly]

Once he said "did you do that!?" (sounded upset) when he saw that I had reshaped a headstock to look more like a Daytona, the lower one used to look like the upper one, which I still think is really ugly.

[hamerhead]

The re-shape looks better, but the original could open beer bottles.

[hamerican gigolo]

Wasn't he the one who sold EVH the body for his Frankenstrat??? 🤔

R.I.P.  😞

[hamerican gigolo]

Sorry, I didn't read the article attached before posting... 😞

[Jimbilly]

28 minutes ago, hamerican gigolo said:

Wasn't he the one who sold EVH the body for his Frankenstrat??? 🤔

R.I.P.  😞

I believe so. He was at the forefront of the replacement guitar bodies and necks business, especially in exotic woods, and always interested in exploring new ideas: for example the 2tek bridge. There are varying accounts of how much he had to do with the 2tek (there's the Hamer connection!).  He designed a different/pointier body shape around 25-30 years ago (6 bolt neck iirc), but guitar players wouldn't go near it, bass players were ok with it, I had plenty of basses at that time and didn't bite.  I first heard of him from my dad when I became interested in guitars as a teenager, my dad was in the hardwoods import business, and Lynn would drive the hearse to the yard my dad was at, and sort through, buying relatively small amounts.  My first good guitar was a BB, I'm sure I wouldn't have recognized the name when I saw it in the newspaper classified ad, in '85 as I recall, if my dad had not mentioned Lynn and BB.   

[Jimbilly]

since I'm hogging this post, might as well include a photo of my collection. Ash body strat with walnut/rosewood neck, one piece maple with maple/rosewood neck, (unfinished) koa body, koa (I think) with rosewood, and maple veneer headstock.