Bolero Bass
There have been over 50 body styles & shapes
introduced on various LSR guitars & Basses.
Ed Roman endeavored to show a number of them on
this website.
Because the guitar design lends itself to
almost any shape Ed has been asked to create these guitars in the
likeness & signature colors of many well known companies.
For example Ed created a guitar that went to
Rick Derringer that had a strong resemblance to a Rickenbacker
360V64. The fact that the guitar was built using the trademarked
Fire-Glo color really made it appear very much like a headless
Rickenbacker.
Rickenbacker is a company that vigorously
protects all of it's patents and trademarks. They
asked us to cease
and desist from manufacturing any more of these guitars. The only
other one was painted black and
Rickenbacker never said anything about that one. The black one went
to Leslie West who uses it quite a bit.
The reason for this short article is to explain
to our potential customers that Ed Roman Guitars has the
capability to make almost anything you want. It is in our better
interest to simply not post any of these offending shapes on our
website. As soon as we receive a cease & desist letter
from any company we generally will stop production. But if we simply
don't post it, Then we never get any cease and desist notices. So if
you ask us to produce a known guitar or some other wild
shape we simply will not post it on our website.
Most companies really don't care what anyone
copies or reproduces as long as it's a custom one of a kind. But
they must respond legally to protect themselves from companies who
would mass produce their intellectual property. |
LSR Guitars was started in 1996 by Ed Roman, The original design concept
of these guitars was to offer a beautiful alternative to the Steinberger line of
instruments.
