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    There has been some blurb about this, Dutchbopper i think posted sometime ago you can see Barney play this guitar on a YT Mezzo 70's video, superb playing the guitar sounds great, i mentioned some years back i thought it was a Super 58 pup as in early AS200's JP20 etc


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    Hey that looks pretty good!

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    Nice video! a friend lent it to me nearly twenty years ago! It was Barney Kessel in trio, recorded in Switzerland. You can see it on Ebay :

    He was playing a Barney Kessel Ibanez prototype (more or less based on the FG100) that never went into production.
    His son Dan sold it around 2010
    Ibanez Barney Kessel prototype-ibanezbkessel3-jpgIbanez Barney Kessel prototype-ibanezbkessel7-jpg

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    Great video! I really dig the close-ups of his left hand mastery.

    Back in the 70's Ibanez was actively pursuing artists of all genres to endorse. Apparently Barney didn't bite.

    However, Ibanez did build a copy of Kessel's double-cutaway (Ibanez 2356) during their so-called lawsuit era.


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    Really like that double Florentine cut on a hollow body. Very sexy.