ZOLLA Strat Custom 1987 Green Transparent. RARE West Coast Guitar. Beautiful.

ZOLLA

CUSTOM GUITAR

VERY RARE.

Built in 1987.

SN:  87315

Sad Diego, CA.

This is an extremely rare ZOLLA GUITAR built by Bill Zolla personally in July, 1987 in San Diego, CA. 

It has an ALDER BODY, with MAPLE NECK, ROSEWOOD fretboard, Schaller Tuners, Seymour Duncan TB12 Trembucker Pickup, Floyd Rose Locking trem system, and is finished in beautiful Transparent Green.  Guitar is in VERY GOOD CONDITION.  Came directly from Bill Zolla. 

 

ABOUT ZOLLA GUITARS:

Why settle for store bought when you can have a Zolla Guitar ?

      Since 1979 Bill Zolla has specialized   in high end custom handmade electric guitars basses, bodies & necks.   His top of the line products are built to order with the player being number on in mind. From the raw hand selected woods, shaping, feel, hardware, accessories, & tone, each instrument is built with accuracy, and made to the exact specifications of the player. Zolla's extensive knowledge, innovative designs, skill & attentiveness that go into creating each precision piece, puts Zolla Guitars aside from the rest.

Zolla Guitars has been building custom handmade guitars, necks, and bodies in Southern California since 1979. Why settle for store bought when you can have a Zolla Guitar? With the player being number one in mind, each custom built order is personally consulted by the owner & craftsman, Bill Zolla. From the raw hand selected woods, shaping, feel, hardware & accessories, each instrument is made to exact specifications of the player. Zolla's extensive knowledge, innovative designs, skill & attentiveness that go into creating each precision piece, puts Zolla Guitars aside from the rest.  Zolla Guitars has had it's down time due to personal struggles but Bill Zolla is BACK & bigger than ever! Zolla's mission is to maintain his highest standards of quality in product, repairs, and customer service that we can guarantee our customers leave happy & wanting more!   To hear Bill and Tom Zolla tell it, 19th-Century French novelist Emile Zola was just another talented relative. Emile left his legacy in the novels he wrote and the Naturalist literary movement he founded. Bill and Tom, who are Coronado natives, are leaving their imprint on the world with the guitars they make.

 "Zolla Guitars, Made in the U.S.A," are handmade in a dusty, dilapidated shop--located in a crime-ridden area of downtown San Diego--that also serves as the brothers' home. The Zollas may never become as famous as Emile, but their guitars are likely to last just as long as his books. But, if the Zollas are related to Zola, what about that extra "l" in their name?

"When my grandfather came over from Poland, he added another l. (He) thought it would make our name look more American," said Tom Zolla. Poland? Emile was from France, but had an Italian father. Could Zolla be a shortened version of Zolakowski? Did Emile's father, who was a well-traveled soldier and engineer, also manage to spread a branch of the family tree in Poland? Or, did Emile, who was known to keep a mistress or two and had children with at least one of them, also have a Polish girlfriend? "Well, we're supposedly related. It shows in our artistic talent," said Tom Zolla, who managed to suppress a chuckle with tongue firmly in cheek. "He's a distant relative." "Yeah, we're all related," said an equally convincing Bill Zolla.

Meet the Zolla brothers, two bass guitar players who learned years ago that making guitars offered them a better chance to make a living than by making music. Bill, 35, and the company's business manager, as such, has been making guitars for 11 years.

Tom, 31, does much of the actual work; cutting, routing and finishing the hardwood used to make the musical instruments. He relies on liter-size bottles of warm cola--strategically placed throughout the small 8th Avenue shop--to get him through the day, taking short drinks from the plastic bottles like a connoisseur savoring expensive wine.

"I'm always asking him, 'Tommy, you want me to get you some ice?' But he never does. It's amazing, he prefers to drink it warm," Bill said.

But a preference for warm cola is only one of the brothers' eccentricities. After talking to them, one walks away with the feeling that making guitars, rather than making money, is their main pursuit in life.

"I love what I'm doing. I don't make a bunch of money at it," Bill said. "Part of it is bad management on my part, but I don't make a lot of money because mostly I sell my guitars cheap. Too cheap. I do charge more for the extras that my customers want. But I don't believe in charging a lot. I'm not out to screw anybody."

Depending on the wood that a customer wants, the Zollas sell their custom guitars for $800 to $3,000. In a "good year" the brothers make 30 to 40 guitars.

Great player.  Will consider trades.

Comes in gig bag.

 Product Specs

Condition:

Very good

Make:

ZOLLA

Model:

"Green Lantern"

Finish:

Green Transparent Stain

Categories:

Solid Body

Year:

1987

Made In:

United State