Hanks Guitars

[GoldenStreet]

Certainly, there can't have been many 17 year-olds playing Strats in 1959, particularly in the UK!

Bill

[Paul Childs]

Certainly, there can't have been many 17 year-olds playing Strats in 1959, particularly in the UK!

Bill

I was 17 in 1970 and it wasn't any better by then. You could buy a car for a lot less than a second hand Fender and you would still need an amp.

[Pol]

Certainly, there can't have been many 17 year-olds playing Strats in 1959, particularly in the UK!

Bill

I was 17 in 1970 and it wasn't any better by then. You could buy a car for a lot less than a second hand Fender and you would still need an amp.

I was 19 in 1967. Bought my first second hand Gibson, a 1959 Sb Les Paul. It had been traded in, at a side street music store, with some extra cash for a brand new Fender Stratocaster. And I still needed to find an suitable Marshall combo amp, which I eventually found later.
Pol

[Martin Page]

I bought a second hand Gretsch Tennessean when I was 17 or 18 and they cost more than the Strat!

Martin.

[Stratpicker]

My good old M&D stood Guarantor for a 62 sunburst Strat around May 1963 which would make me 15 going on 16. I traded-in a Hofner V3 for it.
Cant say it made me a better player - that'd be some trick! - but I do remember that it was instantly nicer to play than the V3 and had a stunning sound in comparison. Sold it in 1975, having used it constantly for 12 years. I cant remember it ever needing repairing or setting up (which it probably did).
cheers
Ian

[Martin Page]

My good old M&D stood Guarantor for a 62 sunburst Strat around May 1963 which would make me 15 going on 16. I traded-in a Hofner V3 for it.
Cant say it made me a better player - that'd be some trick! - but I do remember that it was instantly nicer to play than the V3 and had a stunning sound in comparison. Sold it in 1975, having used it constantly for 12 years. I cant remember it ever needing repairing or setting up (which it probably did).
cheers
Ian

Funnily enough, I traded in a Hofner V3 for the Tennessean (above)...

Martin.

[hankb56]

Thanks to all who contributed to my posting. Sincerely appreciated. Keep them coming.

Ian

[John Boyd]

I purchased my third hand 62 FR Stratocaster in 1965 ( I was 19) for the princely sum of 100 NZ pounds.
It replaced a locally built Jansen Jazzman 3 which was modelled on the Jazzmaster but with 3 pickups.
Sold the Strat in 1967 for 35 pounds, bcause no-one wanted Fenders - at least in NZ.
Cheers,
JB - who is still kicking himself!!!!!

[GoldenStreet]

Just come across this shot of a fiesta red Strat inside the case of the 1998 compilation issued on Spectrum, Another Side Of Hank Marvin, but wondered if Hank has actually used a model with this particular bridge type... the illustration of Hank wearing a slightly frightening jacket on the CD itself suggests it is him in the picture!

Bill

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[JimN]

Just come across this shot of a fiesta red Strat inside the case of the 1998 compilation issued on Spectrum, Another Side Of Hank Marvin, but wondered if Hank has actually used a model with this particular bridge type... the illustration of Hank wearing a slightly frightening jacket on the CD itself suggests it is him in the picture!

That's almost certainly a picture of Hank himself. The jacket is familiar (didn't Hank joke that it was a risk to sufferers of epilepsy?) and the guitar is one of the first mainstream batch of Fender Hank Marvin signature guitars (a later run returned to the six-screw attachment method).

JN