Spectral Studios 7

 Further down the Secret Path we continue our tour of Spectral Studios....... here we have a Black Widow guitar made by the Acoustic  Control Corporation, which is primarily known for making solid state amps, but once upon a time made a brief foray into electric guitars, and this is the result! The early ones were built by Bartel in the USA in the late 60s.... Jimi Hendrix owned one of the first ones.....then they were contracted to be made in Japan at the Matsumoku factory in the early 70s, where the majority of the perhaps 1500-2000 of these guitars ever made were made. The final run of these were made back in the US in the mid 70s by the legendary Mosrite Company.....this is one of the Japanese ones....note the red leather 'black widow' pad on the back of the guitar in the last picture.....this is my dream guitar, and I'm so glad I found this one! If ever you hear an electric guitar on a Secret Path album, it's this one!