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Hey all. I just picked up Jr copy with P90s in TV yellow. This model: https://www.rondomusic.com/callistojrtvy.html

I’m looking at it, and realize mine has a sharper horn, and the upper bout is a different shape. I assume this is an older version and they had to redesign at some point (lawsuit maybe?).

Just curious. Cool guitar, and my first SX since I had a LP copy in the early 2000s.

Edit: The f hole is a sticker.

I like it, especially the sharper horn. The F hole fooled me until you mentioned it was a sticker. I like the idea of a semihollow special though.

Welcome to the forum and you are correct, it is an older model. It definitely was built before 2014 (when I first became aware of Agile and SX) because of the horn, and probably after 2010 or so because of the Agile style headstock.. The really old ones have a headstock like this:

Congrats! That sticker looks nice too!

I'm guessing mine, which I love, was made around the same time as yours:

Congrats and welcome! That's one SX model I wish I would have grabbed back in the day. I like the yellow, also remember a cool Pelham Blue of the same model. And yes, they had a few different variations over the years, i agree that the pointy horn was older.

Yep, that F hole had me excited too for a second. You'll have to excuse some of us for being fooled, as it's exactly the type of quirky thing one might expect to see offered on Rondo's website in the old days. I'm not the only guy here who has ever seen a post about some unique but now long discontinued SX, Hadean,or Douglas model and said to himself, "Why didn't I buy one of those when I had the chance?"

Even though the F hole is a sticker, aesthetically speaking it balances out the pickguard. Are you a Paul Gilbert fan by any chance? He used to put fake F Holes on his Ibanez guitars and I always thought it looked cool while cleverly referencing the lineage of stringed instruments from which the modern electric guitar is descended.

Congrats on you new/vintage SX and welcome to the forum.

I bought the Pelham blue used for a friend. I might have bought it from the old AGF forum?

I wonder if he still has it?