5//120 Billy Lorento
Specifications
- finishes: black, natural, brown/golden shaded, black rose, two-tone: sides black, golden shaded finish
- arched body, solid Spruce top, bottom&sides Maple, single rounded cutaway
- Rosewood fingerboard with inlays
- tailpiece with "Billy Lorento"-engraving
- headstock with 3 star-inlay
- built since the 1953
- sales price (ca. 1958): 450,-DM
This "Billy Lorento"-guitar is supposed to be the oldest thinline of this series. The pickups feature only two screwed polepieces and a screwed jack for the input cable. Body construction made of solid wood. The "Billy Lorento"-engraving in the tailpiece is kind of handmade. The subsequent font wasn't fixed until 1955.
This Particular Instrument
- black finish
- Framus mixer with 2 PU
- dates ca. 1954/55
- model built until the beginning 60s
