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ERiC AiXeLsyD, & the Galveston the day I bought it.  The girl?  That's Katie.

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My band was playing show at the American Music Café, a venue in Murrrysville Pennsylvania with an attached music store. The venue & music store would be descibed by many locals as a "shady" business place. We played there a lot because it was easy to book shows, & a lot of our fans & friends all seemed to gravitate to the place because of the growing (at the time) void of live all-ages music venues. Every once in a while a cool or strange guitar went through the store among the usual myriad of second-rate knock-offs. On Saturday December 23rd, 2000... I saw the "square guitar", and bought it that day. I actually ended up trading in a no-name guitar that I had purchased earlier in the week in trade for it.

Trying to find out anything about the guitar manufacturers that use the Galveston brand can prove to be difficult. The best I can gather is that they're made in a factory somewhere in Korea.

The model name is not listed anywhere on my guitar, & I didn't know what it was until I came across a black & white photo on some discount guitar store's website. I noticed that he headstock is quite different from my guitar though, and there was no visible name on the headstock of the pictured guitar, but I'm getting closer.

  • The first piece of useful information about the Galveston B.B. Stone that I came across was a review found at Harmony Central. Check it out here. - I don't know if I agree with this guys ratings 100%, but he seems to have a lead on Galveston, Silverstar, and Un-Sung Musical Insruments... and what he's equating it to as far as existing models. I haven't been able to find anything out about Silverstar or Un-Sung Musical Instruments either, but if you have any information on any of the aforementioned companies, please let me know.
  • Through my searching, I did find two useful sites: Eagle Instruments & B.B. Stone & Son Musical Instruments. Eagle instruments apparently makes the exact same B.B. Stone Signature model, & they're actually the originator. They give these Specifications.
  • From that website, I was able to discover & e-mail the actual designer of the guitar, Jerker Antoni. This is my correspondence with him, we were sightly confusing each other at the beginning. Maybe it has to do with the language barrier?
  • I sent the same e-mail to B.B. Stone himself, and got a little less of a reply. I think there was a slightly stonger language barrier here.
  • I can only see one major difference between the Galveston & Eagle models, the headstock. Also, the Eagle models appear to have the words "B.B. Stone" on them.
  • Know anything about this guitar? Where did you find it? Remember the day you bought it? Please share it with us!
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eMail from Jerker Antoni
eMail from B.B. Stone
Galveston / Eagle Differences

 

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