Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Some Univox 335 Copy Info for Everyone

Since quite a few of these late 60's / early 70's MIJ 335 Copies are appearing for sale I thought I'd post some info on the Univox models. They are similar to the Epiphone EA-250 and the Aria.

This info comes straight from from Michael Wright'sd article in Vintage Guitar (thanks Mike)

The Effie U1935 thinline hollowbody ($220) was a bolt-neck ES-335 copy with a bound rosewood fingerboard, blocks, open book head with outlined logo decal, two 12-pole/slit humbuckers, finetune bridge, fancy harp tailpiece, three-way on the treble cutaway horn, elevated pickguard and two volumes and tones. The Effie was available in orange sunburst, cherry red or jet black. It is entirely probable an earlier version of this existed, since thinline versions of the ES Gibsons were already mainstays in Japanese lines by '68. If you find one with the old plastic logo, don't be surprised.The Effie was also joined by the Coily U1825 guitar and U1835 bass. These were essentially the same except the Coily guitar had a Bigsby-style vibrato, roller bridge with flip-up mute, and a pair of chrome-covered screw-and-staple humbuckers, typical of early-'70s Arias. The Coily bass had similar four-pole screw-and-staple pickups and a fancy trapeze tail with a diamond design on it. These were available in orange sunburst, red and jade green. The guitar cost $122.50, the bass $135.
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