Vintage Trini Lopez

[Sky]

Took my R7 into the shop today to get her re setup...damn January weather.
Anyhow while I was there the manager showed me the store owners 60's Trini Lopez, what a sweet axe!
Here's exactly what she looked like...

[leftyguitarman]

They are such an awesome looking guitar!

[Luckynumber3]

Very cool! I wonder if the guitar is actually that color or if it is a camera trick- it looks kinda faded or pinkish.

In other news, I could get that and put a normal tailpiece on and basically have a dave grohl model.

[Sky]

The picture makes it look a bit pinkish yes...it's a nice worn in red in person. Fender style headstock, Aged binding even inside of the diamond shape f holes. Only thing that kills me is the slim neck on em. Great guitar all together!

[Gar]

I love those Trini Lopez models, I've always wanted one since I saw Grohl use on with Foo Fighters around 1999. I would have got a reissue if they'd bothered with the binding in the diamond holes and the bridge insert. I think I'd read that they have a slim neck. The vintage ones in Pelham blue look awesome which I think Dave Grohl has aswell as his signature model. Call me daft but I prefer the look of these to a standard 335.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Originally Posted by Luckynumber3

In other news, I could get that and put a normal tailpiece on and basically have a dave grohl model.

On a 60s?!

[The Refugee]

Trini Lopez's look great.

I would love to have one, or a DG 335, maybe eventually.

[Jerry Hayes]

I bought mine at Guitar Center in Hollywood around 1970 or so. I'd went there looking for a red 335 which they didn't have in stock at the time. The salesman said they had another guitar that I might be interested in as it'd been in the store for a good while. The Trini Lopez at that time was a bit more expensive than a stock 335 and really didn't warrant the extra cash as the only difference was the headstock, "f" holes, and fretboard inlay. Other than that, it was basically the same guitar. I bought it for a good price and took it home. It was my main guitar until '83 when I bought a Telecaster. My Trini was was a '67 or '68 model I believe. I played it locally and on the road until about 2002 when I sold it to buy back my Tele that I'd sold to another guy. I have my Tele but I sure wish the Trini was back home. It had the greatest neck of any guitar I've ever owned. Here's the only shot I have of it taken outside the Swizzle Stik in Huntington Beach, Ca. somewhere in 1977 or so and another shot taken in Hutchinson, Kansas around 1975..... I had the guitar rewired differently and added a middle pickup and a Bigsby Palm Pedal string bender. I believe the lead singer for the Foo Fighters plays a Trini and has two or three of them in different finishes.........JH in Va.