Ben Marks, our pal at
Collector's Weekly, says, "I just wrote a
piece about Matt Eichen, the yarmulke-wearing, oral-surgeon founder and
designer of Musicvox, whose Spaceranger guitars were used in the last
Austin Powers movie. After taking an almost decade-long hiatus due to
his daughter's bout with cancer (she's fine now), he's back at it, with
new designs and models, all inspired by the cheap, consumer guitars of
the 50s and 60s, from Danelectro and Harmony to Supro and Silvertone."
Like a lot of budding collectors of the inexpensive,
entry-level guitars of the 1950s and ’60s, Eichen found himself in a lot
of pawn shops. “During my residency and afterward, whenever I had some
spare change I would go to a pawn shop wherever I could find one. If I
was traveling to a conference in any state, when I get off the plane,
the first thing I’d do is go to a pawn shop in the worst part of town
and see what kind of guitars were available. Harmonys were always on my
list, but then I spread out to Supros, Danelectros, Airlines, and
Silvertones. Anything made by Valco or Kay. They had magical tones.”
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