1977 Electra MPC X330 Super Magnaflux Humbuckers Modules Pro Setup Original Hard Shell Case

Today, Lawman Guitars is Presenting..

A really cool all original 1977 Electra Lawsuit MPC X330 guitar. It looks great! These guitars were way ahead of their time and of course directed their sales efforts to Gibson Players that couldn’t afford a Les Paul as their market. They did too good a job, thus the Lawsuits from Gibson… This one even includes the original Electra Branded Hard Shell Case, Case key, truss rod tool and the original pickguard which was never installed...It also includes two working modules. Power Overdrive and the fabulous Phase Shifter!!

We are dating this one from the Cresting Wave Headstock. 1977 or maybe a year later..

These guitars had quite a following. They were the preferred guitars for players such as Peter Frampton and Leslie West from Mountain!

This all original Electra plays as good as it looks. This guitar is just beautiful in shape. Hardly a ding on it... I am calling it Excellent in shape though most would call it mint! .. We had it Professionally setup with new 9’s and it has great awesome low playing action that very easy on the fingers. The guitar even has the original Electra Branded Tuners and Truss rod cover..This guitar is completely original and awesome! See pics…

The guitar has a beautiful Sunburst finish thats just incredible. It weighs 8 lbs 3 ozs. It has a 24 1/2 inch scale neck and the original Brass Nut measures 1 5/8 inches. The shown original pickguard was never installed on this guitar. Unfortunately, the adhesive backed paper that should have been removed long ago is still on it. We scraped a small piece off but it will require some elbow grease. See pic 12. We'll let the new owner have that pleasure.

So what exactly does MPC stand for?

Here's some info I found from the new Electra Company regarding these cool guitars…

Looking back at the original Electra Guitars, over four decades ago, a group of creative entrepreneurs wanted to make state of the art, affordable guitars available to musicians. They decided to pool their talents to create a new line of guitars. The challenge was to design, build and market instruments that were well-built and innovative while still being a great value.

The MPCs were manufactured in the same factory, side by side, at the same time as the Ibanez Les Pauls and were not only High Quality Copies as described but, most would say, they were actually better than the original mid to late 70’s Gibson Les Pauls they were copying. What this means is that as the factory was manufacturing the Ibanez run, a portion was pulled aside and outfitted as Electra MPC’s and sold as such.

As fate would have it the founding fathers of Electra Guitars would build guitars with innovations far ahead of their time. New switching concepts for pickups, onboard effects and aesthetic upgrades to classic designs, would become the cornerstone of Electra Guitars’ popularity.

In 1975, Tom Presley was hired as Electra Guitars product manager. His vision included guitars with innovative switching combinations of pickups and onboard guitar effects. John Karpowitz was hired to make Tom’s vision a reality.

The first Presley/Karpowitz project was the Super-Magnaflux humbucking guitar pickups. The pickups, along with their wiring assemblies, were entirely US made. These proved to be such an improvement over existing selector switch systems that several Nashville pros started using them in their USA-made guitars. Next was the Tone Spectrum Circuitry. A five-way variation on the Gibson six-way Varitone selector switch. Tone Spectrum provided in- and out-of-phase, series, parallel, and access to two more toggles wired to tone capacitors. This was introduced on the Electra Guitars Omega.

This Electra has all of those innovations as well as the Super Magnaflux Humbuckers.. Check those pics. With the Varitone switch and MPC switches, with the working Power Overdrive and Phase Shifter modules, makes this quite the guitar. The guitar has the Varitone Style pickup selector that does really cool things to the pickups. Five different sounds that give this guitar many different flavors of tones!

This cool guitar even has the original Electra Branded Hard Shell Case. Its in as nice of shape as the guitar. Beautiful Copper Plush interior! Have you priced these original cases lately? Even if you can find one, they are very very expensive. This one is original to the guitar, has all working latches, hinges and original handle. Even the accessory boxes are still with it including the lids. Again, you also get the case key, truss rod tool and original pickguard in the case. See pics 11-14 …A great home for your cool Made in Japan Les Paul STyle Electra Guitar….

Sold as-is no returns as its vintage and used, however, I have been hand picking my customers guitars for over 20 years now and they have all loved the instruments I found for them. This cool Electra guitar will certainly not be an exception.

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