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Can anyone identify this J-200?


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I spotted this picture on the back of a country music compilation CD today. Sitting casually on bonnet/hood of his E-Type Jaguar is Australian DJ/shock jock and sometime country singer John Laws. I'd say the picture dates from the mid/late 60s.

 

But what about that guitar he's playing? It looks like real J-200 except for the headstock, which is all wrong. It's probably too early for a Japanese copy and way too early for a counterfeit. So what is it?

 

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Looks like a framus headstock. Or national

 

Good call. I did a bit of Googling and although I couldn't find the exact one, the headstock shape is indeed very similar to a generic 60s Framus. We can only wonder what happened to the J-200 leaving it with a cheap German guitar headstock.

 

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