
I have owned many Domino Californians over the years (the VOX Phantom copy).ĭomino made one of the better quality reproduction guitars in the late sixties. I took it to the local luthier and asked him to refinish it, to remove the awful sticker.Ī couple of Fender Duo-Sonics, which were the inspiration for the Warren Ellis Tenor Series. Youll see the inspiration for launching Eastwood Guitars in these images below. Hence, the foreign guitar manufacturers gave us what we wanted. Companies that had been manufacturing Accordions for 20 years, retooled for electric guitars.ĮKO was at the forefront, and within 2 years they were shipping over 10,000 electric guitars to USA per year.įender, Gibson, Gretsch, Rickenbacker these were all too expensive for our parents to buy for us.
