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This guitar was built in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in the ’50s or ’60s. Įlger Custom Built Ardmore Pennsylvania, USA.Īnother original Ardmore made Brazilian rosewood. Reverse engineered and built to spec, Penco produced some of the closest replicas of the Martin D-28, D-41, D-45, and D-45 12 models in existence today. In 1971 Hoshino purchased Elger Guitars, renaming the company “ Ibanez U.S.A.” and retaining the company headquarters in Bensalem, Pennsylvania as a distribution and quality-control center. Penco made Martin and Gibson style acoustic guitars. Hoshino had recently acquired a small Spanish guitar company named Ibanez, and it was decided to market the instruments under this brand name. There is no neck separation at the body, the truss rod works fine, the tuners have been upgraded but the new holes aren't ugly. It has the expected dings, and wear for its age, but is a nice survivor. The Elger Guitar company made a relatively small number of hand-built, high quality guitars through the early 1960s.īy 1965 Rosenbloom stopped manufacturing guitars and become the exclusive North American distributor for Hoshino Gakki instruments. Here is a vintage 'Made In Japan' Penco acoustic guitar that is still in very nice cosmetic and playing condition. Due to the post-World War II music boom, his sales soon outstripped his inventory, and he began a company called Elger Guitars in an attempt to manufacture enough guitars to fill his needs. It seems they produced a lot of guitars without any name at all, I guess you could just consider them like a house brand of Matsumoku. Here she is.In 1954, Harry Rosenbloom opened a music store in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. It looks a lot like the other SG-types Ive seen from them. Unfortunately the originals can be very hard to track down some are quite commonly listed on auction sites like eBay, but in a lot of cases, few were ever. I cleaned it up and found it was actually in pretty good shape for being made in the 70's and stored in an attic without a case! After replacing the pots, switch and jack, and installing a bone nut, it turned out to be a very good sounding guitar! The original pickups seem to say "Matsu" or something on the back of them. Vintage guitar catalogues are getting almost as collectable as the guitars they feature, and when included as case candy can certainly increase the desirability of a vintage guitar. A few days later he hands me a filthy, non-working copy of a Gibby 335. He said he had an electric guitar in his attic, and I could have it if I wanted it. A buddy at work was moving into a smaller place, and I was helping him move. 1970 the production of some Epiphone Guitars by Gibson moved from the USA to Japan. So school me! Post your Penco guitar photo's, and drop some knowledge on us if you care to! Vintage Epiphone Guitar in perfect (mint) condition. I don't even know much about these guitars, other than they were decent quality Japanese copies of Gibson, Fender (and other?) guitars. There seems to be just about everything else! So I'm home from work today, just sitting around letting my foot heal up, with basically nothing else to do except address these critically important issues. I searched the guitar owners clubs and was surprised to find nothing on Penco guitars. Get the guaranteed best price on 6 String Acoustic Guitars like the Vintage 1970s Penco A330 Dreadnought Cherry Sunburst Acoustic Guitar at Musician's Friend.