Photos of beautiful and unusual guitars that I have owned or worked on.

All are now SOLD, but please check my FOR SALE page for currently available items!

 

1961 FASAN 'Commander'

One of two known examples of this deluxe, high-end model by Franz Sandner.

 

Features 'Ideal' Pickup and distinctive 1961 truss-rod fittings

This Example has a npn-original bridge & Tailpiece

A Second Example

One other example of this guitar, recorded as being a "Hopf Commodore" (sic - note "Commander" is hand-etched on tailpiece, 'Hopf' was, I suspect, an educated guess), was the subject of a feature by Michael Wright in Vintage Guitar Magazine's "The Different Strummer"

This same guitar recently appeared on ebay (below).

(note identifying points: repaired neck break, covered with amateurish black splodge, filled off-centre strap-button hole in neck heel cap)

 

Features presumed original deluxe tailpiece, with seemingly hand-engraved name "Commander"

 

An Acoustic Variant:

Non-Electric Archtop, with Simplified non-deluxe appointments: Non-checquered Body-Binding, unbound neck with dot inlays

 

A Related Model:

Later model with same body shape, but normal truss-rod fitting, regular f-holes, and knobs fitted without separate control-plate

Dot fret-markers, and changed pickguard shape