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I am just curious if any of you have ever heard of a Harisson electric guitar?The guitar that I found has the name spelt Harisson and it has a two inch thick totally hollow body and is shaped like a Les Paul with F holes. It is sun burst and has the Humbucker pickups and has a nice jazz-blues tone. It has the old style tail piece that holds the strings. I would say that it is a copy of a Gibson ES 175. It is very light and My best guess is that it is totally hollow. I guess that whatever country it came from they may have guessed how to spell Harrison or it may be a law suit guitar and they spelled it that way to avoid a law suit. It plays good and has a unique sound to me. I hope that you guys don’t mind me asking so many question. I need to figure out how to put pictures on here so I can show how it looks. There is a custom guitar builder in Toronto whos name is Harrison that builds some beautiful and pricey jazz guitars. On this one it says Harisson TNX. Just thought that I would see if any of you had ever had or seen one. My guess is that Gibson stopped them from being imported? I see that the Chinese are importing fake Gibson andTaylors and probably many other higher end guitars and it must be causing real problem for people wanting to buy an older Gibson or Taylor. Just thought that I would ask. Thanks,
Gary.Boats'Blues.
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If it is a lawsuit guitar then it may well be worth considering, but you are going to have to do more homework on the guitar to prove it one way or the other, Tokai in Japan made Sigma guitars for Martin and wasnt long before they were making their own brand of guitar which was a Martin replica, Not long after that that they started other replica builds of Gibson and Fender, In fact they still made Japanese Fenders there until 2015.
Harrison guitars started building in the 80’s So if it is a lawsuit guitar they would have no need to fear the Harrison brand name..
Chinese/MIK, it could well be. It could also be a copy of George Harrison’s Gretsch ..We need picture of the Guitar Gary...Billy..
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Here are a couple pictures of the Harisson guitar. They are not very good because I had to take then with my old Kendel. Just ordered a new cellphone because the battery died. I will take better pictures once the new phone is hooked up. This looks like a twenty year old plus guitar and I notices that it has Epiphone style knobs. Billy it sounds like you have some knowledge on these old guitars and I want to thank You for sharing some with me. I am one of those guys that if I received a guitar with flaws which this one has some I will keep it if the sound is right and it plays good. I figure that as long as the price is right I will let them do what they want with them when I don’t need them any more. This one was in bad need of a cleaning and there are a few other things to do but it plays pretty good. I am glad that these pictures turned out so you can get an idea of what it looks like,
Gary.Boats'Blues.
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I was thinking along the lines that this could be made in the same factory as Jay Tuser guitars, but the more I look at the pics the more I am trying to convince myself of that..
In the headstalk picture is the fret board damaged at the Nut? and the headstalk inlay doesn’t line up with the truss cover, I don’t think you have found yourself anything special here Gary, but as long as it plays and sounds good then that is all that matters..
One last question though, Any labels in the f holes that might give some more clues?...Billy..
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Thank you Billy for that info. I wish I could afford the original Gibson space 175 but those things are definitely pricey. I see the damage that you are talking about at the nut and I think that I can straighten this out with a little bit of elbow grease. I know that Lucille wood handle just about any kind of jazz I threw at her but I saw this one and thought to myself with the hollow body and no Center beam this one could come up with a unique sound. Whoever owns this one loved it and played it a lot so there are things that will have to be fixed but for me I guess that’s part of the fun. Thank you so much for answering my post. I hope you saw the post that I did on your song when you guys were talking about the clip recording software. You have a really good sound there and it was a good honest recording with a few mistakes and all. I have to get over not wanting to make a mistake in my playing in front of others. There is not one song that I do that I don’t make at least one mistake in. You did a really good job on that song. Thank you for answering the post, Gary.
Boats'Blues.
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Thank you Billy for that info. I wish I could afford the original Gibson space 175 but those things are definitely pricey. I see the damage that you are talking about at the nut and I think that I can straighten this out with a little bit of elbow grease. I know that Lucille wood handle just about any kind of jazz I threw at her but I saw this one and thought to myself with the hollow body and no Center beam this one could come up with a unique sound. Whoever owns this one loved it and played it a lot so there are things that will have to be fixed but for me I guess that’s part of the fun. Thank you so much for answering my post. I hope you saw the post that I did on your song when you guys were talking about the clip recording software. You have a really good sound there and it was a good honest recording with a few mistakes and all. I have to get over not wanting to make a mistake in my playing in front of others. There is not one song that I do that I don’t make at least one mistake in. You did a really good job on that song. Thank you for answering the post, Gary.
Gary, man it is only a mistake if you do the once, it becomes the norm if you do the same all the time, dont worry about mistakes man, no one sings a song the same way, so why should you not put your own definition to your playing..just play it as you play it and enjoy what you are doing, being fun is more than being correct..
..Billy..
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Hey Billy, You are sure right about the fact that the most important part is that it must be fun foremost. I have always enjoyed playing and 99% of the time it is just me playing and one thing that is helping me here quite a bit is the backing tracks because it makes me stay in time and makes the moves much more fluid. I make mistakes a lot but always enjoy playing anyway. It is getting much better though which is so good to see. I think that it was you that brought up practicing on Skype for members that want to jam together and that would be a good idea. If members decided on what songs to do and practice them and have jams every once in a while I think that it would work. The more people play together the better they get. Sorry to get off track but thanks for the kind words,
Gary.Boats'Blues.
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Marty, Thank goodness it does still intonate and I have looked it over and I see no signs of a neck break. My guess is that the guy wanted a different spacing and the nut is what was handy or what he could afford? It does have a very good tone and I haven’t really cranked the amp as yet so we will see. You are right that it doesn’t have to be cranked loud to show it’s tone. It could be a Teisco because it is around that era from what I can see. I have to clean up some glue and very great full that he didn’t use epoxy. It will take some work and hoping that it will be a keeper. An old guitar is usually a gamble and sometimes I win. Keep my fingers crossed. Thanks,
Gary.Boats'Blues.
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