Eko ranger guitar 12 string with
Action is easy to set up due to the bolt-on neck and the adjustable aluminium bridge saddle. They are famous for being heavy and built like tanks. In short, all Rangers are equally desirable. While the older ones have more vintage appeal, the post-1973 Rangers are technically improved instruments with their thinner and more consistent polyester finish and improved bracing. They are visually distinguished at first glance by the stenciled rosette, less ornate after 1973. There has been two main generations, the watershed year being about 1973.
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But following the end of shipments to Vox in 1968 and to LoDuca in 1971 as well as the growing Japanese competition in the middle-priced electric guitar market, Eko had to redeploy onto Europe and to focus on acoustics, so that the Ranger Series emerged as the very centre of the company’s business in the 70’s.
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Acoustic guitars only played a subordinate part in the Eko range in the 60’s. Meanwhile, in early 1967, the J-54 and 56 were renamed Ranger VI and Ranger XII. Little modified versions were built for Vox under the names Country-Western and Folk Twelve in the years 1965 through 1968.
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It started its carrier with a glued-in neck in late 1964 under the name J-52, soon substituted by the J-54 with a bolt-on neck and complemented by the twelve-string version J-56. Under various names and versions, it was a mainstay of the Eko range for over twenty years.
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At least 100,000 were made, including six- and twelve-string configurations, but the actual figure could be closer to 200,000. The most successful European guitar ever. Pickup, some ding & dong and crack line in the finish, also in the head/neck but everything stable without problems. 1970 EKO RANGER 12 EL 12 Strings Natural Orig.