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The latest batch: 8 plates, photos first, then the ones still waiting for a picture.
Photo: Ravahe / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Aristides
010
2009
No wood, no heel, no options. The 010 was a concept car, and you could actually buy one.
Photo: Fargoh / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Ural
650
1975
A Soviet piano factory took a Yamaha apart, flipped it over, and gave the kids something to learn on.
Photo: mbaylor / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Gibson
Corvus
1982
Gibson named it after a crow. Everybody else called it the can-opener.
Photo: ChickSR / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Resonet
Futurama
1955
Britain couldn't buy a Stratocaster, so George Harrison and Jimmy Page started on this.
Photo: Lana from San Francisco / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Manzer
Pikasso
1984
Pat Metheny asked for as many strings as possible. Linda Manzer stopped at forty-two.
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Audiovox
736
1936
The bass player always had to drive alone. So, around 1936, Paul Tutmarc made a bass that fit in the car.
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Rickenbacker
Electro Spanish Model B
1935
In 1935 Rickenbacker built a fretted electric with a bolt-on neck and strings through the body. Out of Bakelite.
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Sho-Bud
Pro II
1973
Sho-Bud would build you a Pro II any way you asked, which is why no two of them agree.