Hello from Linden MI.

**Rich724** · 12-18-2017, 10:44 AM

How do you post a picture form your PC? It seems that the Insert Pic Icon only allows you to post from a URL.

**tele savalas** · 12-18-2017, 11:20 AM

Lower right corner, click "Go Advanced" and then click the paper clip icon.

**Rich724** · 12-18-2017, 01:19 PM

Hopefully the pics will attach.
The story behind this guitar is the I had bought an Ibanez GB10 back in the mid 70's as George Benson was "the" guitar player at the time with is hit Breezin on the radio constantly. I played that guitar professionally for about 10 years. My career started to take off and I moved out of the area and left the music scene behind. I ended up trading that guitar for a motorcycle a few years later and really stopped playing altogether. So I'm in a guitar shop while on vacation in a northern Michigan city and find this GB12 on consignment for 1/2 the price it was worth. Long story short I bought it and had it for years. The day came where we would part and I posted these pictures on the Ibanez Collectors web site and got a response from a guy from Brazil. He was flying to Europe and then to the States afterwards. He ended up flying to Flint (my hometown airport) to purchase it. I met him at the airport terminal, exchanged money and guitar and it was gone. Who knows where this guitar is now but it was a beauty.gb12-1.jpg gb12-2.jpg

**tele savalas** · 12-18-2017, 06:59 PM

I always thought the burst on the pickguard was a very cool contribution! I was rabid for all of Benson's recordings back then, as well as much of the CTI catalog.

**SAguitar** · 12-20-2017, 09:48 PM

We have all let some good ones get away.

**Rich724** · 12-27-2017, 01:33 PM

Hi guys, just took a pic of each that I currently have. I must say that these have cured my GAS for quite some time now and believe that this is the final line up.

A Firebird clone, Ovation Elite with a custom Walnut top, a slightly modded Tele Deluxe 72 Reissue. The Strat has SD Rails with a replacement ebony neck, the Tele now have SD pups and replacement ebony neck, , (next panel) the green Gretsch is a Brian Setzer 6120, Ibanez AS83 with SD pups and violin finish.