DiPinto Galaxie 4 Surf Guitars – Now Extra Sparkly
The Traditional surf guitars, like a surf green Fender Stratocaster or Jazzmaster, are no doubt cool, but they are definitely not the only option for surf bands today.
DiPinto, a smaller builder of lots of cool electric guitars and basses, has one of these modern surf guitars. The DiPinto Galaxie 4, pictured below, is attention getting for sure. Models come is sparkly silver, sparkly pink, orange and sunburst.
DiPinto Galaxie 4 Guitar in Silver & Gold
The only annoying part of this guitar to me is the name. Why can’t it be the DiPinto Galaxy, what is the need for the misspelling? For the specs, it has a mahogany body, 22 frets, 4 (four!) single coil pickups, inlays can be dots or stars, and a tremolo bar.
The Galaxie (in the silver) is the guitar of choice for Los Straitjackets. The bass guitar version of the Galaxie is also the bass of choice for them, which makes a cool looking live show. Here’s a look at these guitars in action:
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thanks for the great review!
-Chris DiPinto
p.s. the spelling comes from an old 60′s Vox amp, which i’m sure came from the Ford Galaxie car. The band Galaxie 500 also uses the spelling so i felt i was in good company. The original name for the guitar was the Satellite (from a song on the first Def Leppard album) which i accidentally misspelled Sattelite. Either way the name was taken by another guitar company so i changed it to Galaxie. It just seemed right to misspell it after all that!
Thanks for the comment, much appreciated! I definitely liked this guitar.
I didn’t realize the misspelling had such a tradition. Galaxie’s a great space rock name though, Satellite would have been good as well.
I drove a ’65 Galaxie 500 convertible around socal for years. If this guitar channels any of the “surf” soul that car had, its a must buy.
Where can I play one in NorCal?