The original retail price was around £500 but many were sold off cheaply after disappointing sales….maybe the use of the Westone brand name wasn’t helping as it possibly conjured memories of those worthy but cheap instruments so many of us bought in the 80s, although these days Westone guitars are held in much higher regard. The headstock is very small in comparison, with Gotoh-made tuners. Louis Music, which had marketed Matsumoku-made guitars under the Electra name, was taken over by Unicord, which owned the Westone name, and the guitars Matsumoku built during the resulting transitional phase bear the dual name Electra-Westone. There is a small amount of info here at wikipedia.
The body is similar in shape and size to a Stratocaster, and the neck is bolt on, extending farther into the body before it bolts, creating a slimmer heel at the neck joint and giving better access to the higher frets. Contrary to what you may read on some sites Westone did not start with Matsumoku.
#Westone guitar wiki series#
The Westone Cutlass was one in a series of four in the Prestige series, along with the Cutlass Custom, Corsair Classic, and Corsair Custom and bears little relation to the earlier 1980s Westone models. Univox guitars were built by the Matsumoku Guitar Factory in Japan which were OEM suppliers to Westbury, Area, Westone. 1 Early Kent guitars were made by Hagstrom, based in Sweden. 1 2 The 'Kent' brand was established by Buegeleisen and Jacobson, a musical instrument distributor based in New York City, in 1960. Status are more well known for their popular (in the 80’s and 90’s, anyway) graphite necked headless basses, which were an almost standard issue to bands of that era. Kent (guitar) A Guyatone LG-140T electric guitar, aka the Kent 533 Videocaster (c.196465) Kent was a 1960s/1970s electric guitar brand. The Westone Cutlass was designed by renowned English guitar maker Sid Poole and produced in the Status factory in the UK in the late 1990’s.
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