SX Callisto Jr TV Yellow

Post Reply
squierjoshj
Reactions:
Posts: 1
Joined: Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:26 pm

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.
Attachments
IMG_0001.jpeg
Top
User avatar
BatUtilityBelt
Reactions:
Posts: 1722
Joined: Thu May 28, 2020 4:25 pm

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.
Top
User avatar
tobijohn
Reactions:
Posts: 1728
Joined: Wed May 27, 2020 12:54 pm
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL

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:
Attachments
P5240014.JPG
Delightful mix of insolence, arrogance and narcissism
Proud RINO trapped in a heavy metal chassis
Growing up, only kid in the neighborhood with an Uncle Ahkbar
Top
User avatar
dabbler
Reactions:
Posts: 462
Joined: Sat May 30, 2020 6:39 pm
Location: Maryland

Congrats! That sticker looks nice too!

I'm guessing mine, which I love, was made around the same time as yours:
IMGP0210.jpg
Top
User avatar
uwmcscott
Reactions:
Posts: 1479
Joined: Wed May 27, 2020 1:45 pm
Location: Northern Wisco
Gearlist: A few LP's, a Strat, a Tele and a few acoustics.

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.
AGF Survivor Champ Emeritus (Ask TVVoodoo )
Top
User avatar
toomanycats
Reactions:
Posts: 1883
Joined: Wed May 27, 2020 7:43 pm

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.
“There are only two means of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and Cats!” Albert Schweitzer
Top
idiotsdelight
Reactions:
Posts: 144
Joined: Thu May 28, 2020 10:43 pm

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?
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Agile/SX”