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Been a while since I've been on here and was looking on the epi site and stumbled across this.

 

http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/Features/2013/Richard-Akers-The-Epiphone-Interview.aspx

 

Anyone think they could be working on this model. It's the 20 year anniversary of them signing with creation records this year so maybe an anniversary edition?

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Been a while since I've been on here and was looking on the epi site and stumbled across this.

 

http://www.epiphone....-Interview.aspx

 

Anyone think they could be working on this model. It's the 20 year anniversary of them signing with creation records this year so maybe an anniversary edition?

 

I knew I'd heard of this concept before, back in the 90's when Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher played one: http://britpoprevival.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-union-jack-guitar.html

 

I'm not sure I'd have one in the colour scheme though, I'm a traditionalist at heart :)

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Small aside for those not in the know, it's only known as the Union Jack when flown on a ship, otherwise it is the Union Flag :)

 

Actually that's not strictly true as the term Union Jack and Union Flag have been officially interchangeable for at least 200 years (in fact in the late 17th C it was officially called His Majesty's Jack). In addition technically a flag is only a'jack' when flown from the Jack Staff at the bow of a ship, all others pennants and flags or ensigns.

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Actually that's not strictly true as the term Union Jack and Union Flag have been officially interchangeable for at least 200 years (in fact in the late 17th C it was officially called His Majesty's Jack). In addition technically a flag is only a'jack' when flown from the Jack Staff at the bow of a ship, all others pennants and flags or ensigns.

 

This is true.

 

If one wishes to be really pedantic, the terms officially became interchangeable in 1908, following a House of Lords debate on the matter. Hence, from 1908 onwards, it is both the "Union Flag" and the "Union Jack." Even in the Royal Navy it can be referred to as the "Union Flag" (a decision the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reached in 1902) or the "Union Jack," although one imagines that "Union Jack" would be more commonplace in that institution.

 

People often forget that just as there is a code in the U.S. for the American Flag, there is a whole, complex set of rules in the U.K. attached to the Union Flag - it should never be flown in an inferior position to another flag or ensign (with the sole exception of a Royal Standard), should only be flown at night if illuminated, and so on...All of which is determined by a Parliamentary Committee called the Flags and Heraldry Committee: http://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/Flying_Flags_in_the_United_Kingdom.pdf

 

Something tells me that it's probably improper to paint the Union Flag on a guitar, too...but I think we'll have to overlook that!

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