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1969 Ampeg Dan Armstrong
With bodies that were cut and routed from acrylic sheets and then buffed to a fully translucent finish, the production of the Dan Armstrong models was quite labour intensive. The finished bodies were outfitted with a neck made of maple with a rosewood fingerboard and a pre-wired pickguard made of high-pressure laminate with a faux wood grain.
These guitars featured an interchangeable pickup system in which pickups could be easily swapped via a banana plug connection. A channel was routed on the top of the body to allow a user to easily swap pickups without removing the strings. Six different pickups were designed by Dan's son, Kent Armstrong, which offered a huge amount of sonic versatility to the Ampeg Dan Armstrong.
A fine example of a first-year 1969 Ampeg Dan Armstrong model, this lucite guitar is in very good condition and remains largely original with the exception of tuning machines and a capacitor. The original HPL pickguard is nicely preserved and structurally sound. With lightly worn original frets that have plenty of life left in them, this Ampeg plays cleanly across the fingerboard without dead spots.
We’ve set this guitar up in house and added shims to the neck and saddle in order to achieve optimal neck angle and playability. The neck profile is full and wide with first fret depth of 0.885" and a nut width that is just shy of 1-3/4". This lucite guitar weighs in at a respectable 9lbs 5oz.
This Dan Armstrong model comes with its original blade pickup (8.7K), original humbucker (10.4K), and an additional modern blade pickup (3.8k).
With modern Ampeg hardshell case.
