Westbury Custom Series
The Custom Series
was modeled on the Univox Westbury Performer from 1976, made by Matsumoku.
It was a swell top guitar with a maple body, two symetric cut aways, a glue on
neck, carved top, German carve around the edge and shallow scallops in the cutaways.
The head was shaped similar to an Aria and had an inlaid "W" logo, the fretboard was
bound ebony with Les Paul stryle crown inlays. The guitar had a wide, flat bridge
and a stop tail. There were two humbuckers, with a voulme and tone
each and a 3 way switch located behind the stop tail. The guitar had a
6 position varitone with 18 possible sound selections. The selector could
put either pickup in single coil, double coil, single out-of-phase, or double
out-of-phase modes.
Availability
Available in antique walnut (W2300) (1,
2,
3)
and tobacco sunburst (W2302G)
(1,
2,
3,
4)
for $535 from about 1978 to 1982.
Copyright Michael Wright, author of Guitar Stories Vol. 2, and Vintage
Guitar Magazine; used by permission.