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JustAskinologist
Re: NGD - Info needed from Patrick Eggle Experts please!
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good lord, thats a lot of info for you being a shop person...wowHowdy, just thought i'd sign up to give you a bit more information about Eggle guitars. I don't know a great deal about the particular guitar you have and thats probably due to the fact i believe your guitar came out in the very first year of them being in business.
Patrick Eggle are a West Midlands (UK) based company and are still going to this day. Back in about 1992 (when i was 10!) my guitar teacher at the time (Steve Makin, great bloke played for many of the best, Birmingham City fan too!) was endoresed by them. I remember him gettin a Berlin off them with the craziest curly maple top. They were aiming for really high end stuff and pretty much from the get go they produced guitars which were blatent lookalikes of PRS. Instead of bird inlays though they used Maple Leaves and obviously the headstock was slightly different.
When i was 16 i did some work experience in what was then Europes biggest guitar store, Musical Exchanges, Birmingham. I remember some of the guys in the shop frowning upon the guitars slightly as i suppose these were kinda like rip offs of the real thing? Even still though, they are great instruments. Eggle most popular instruments were the Berlin, Vienna and Los Angeles. I never knew of them making a Floyd Rose guitar, so i guess you're guitar was almost like a prototype for the Berlin/Vienna model which might explain the headstock difference compared to standard Eggle guitars.
Its founder/luthier was a guy called Patrick James Eggle (suprisingly enough!) but he left the firm in 1994 and went to live in the US. He's now back in the UK though and makes extremely high end acoustic guitars only under the name Patrick James Eggle Guitars (http://www.eggle.co.uk) as to not confuse his brand with the still existing Patrick Eggle electric guitars who operate out of Nuneaton.
As for the wood used on your guitar, i can't comment on the back althought it does look like Ash to me, but i noticed someone said Sycamore which is pretty much what the US calls Maple. Theres a strong chance of this as I dug out an old magazine (Guitarist, UK) as i remembered seeing a new Eggle guitar about a year ago which i remembered used Sycamore throughout. I remember it becuase the top was such a nice colour! Their new stuff can be found on their website and the guitar i was talking about inparticular is http://www.patrickeggleguitars.com/newwavestage.html. Note that they say the guitar is made from Maple, but im pretty sure it is European Sycamore.
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