Author Topic: Mystery Guitar - Washburn Force 6 (Read 4588 times)

jamestinney · « **on:** April 05, 2008, 06:38:00 PM »

I've been living in a shared house for the last 3 years. We decided to clear out the loft (something that's been needed doing for a while!). To our surprise we uncovered a really tasty Washburn Force 6, I say tasty cause it sounds great!

Does anyone know anything about these guitars?

Here is the description:

Black Solid Body with Red Stripes (Gloss).
2 Washburn Covered Hummers
1 Vol & 1 Tone
3 Way Switch
Locking Nuts & Fine tuning
Trem Hole
Black Pickguard
Red Dot Fret Inlays
Serial #842653

It would be great to know more about this guitar.

When & where it was made?
The frequencies of the tone control?
what it retailed at, at the time?
& who played one!!

Be great to hear more about it!

Many thanks

James

Pike · « **Reply #1 on:** April 05, 2008, 09:24:41 PM »

Hi James, try posting on the electric forum.

http://www.washburn.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=11

knucklenuts68 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2008, 01:59:36 PM »

i bought one when i was in High school over 30 yrs ago and paid around $800.00 for it including a wonderbar. I kick myself in the ass everytime i think about selling it. It was a great guitar. The wonderbar i thought was an awesome tremolo system. i liked it way better than the floyd rose at the time. I would give my left nut for another set up like i had so if you ever decide to part with it let me know. knucklenuts68@hotmail.com You have a nice guitar there and i wish i could give you more help on when and where they were made but i can't. I believe Washburn has somewhat made knockoff guitars of the likes of Fender mostly but i would play a force 6 any day over a strat. I don't know of any big names that played them at the time i purchased it but a friend of mine owned one and i fell in love with it and had to have one of my own.

The_Original_One · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:43:58 PM »

Does anyone have any pictures of the Force 6? I'd love to see one!!!

Cornish Boy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:42:49 AM »

Hi James and welcome to the forum. Your Force 6 was made in Japan 1984 part of the Panther, Force series. Nice guitars, I think the model with the Wonderbar trem retailed at about $599 back in 84, the others according to their numbers Force 2 Force 3 etc were slightly cheaper with either a stop tail or fulcrum trem. Sorry but I have no idea of frequencies in fact getting any information from the eighties models is difficult. The humbuckers are most likely EMG Selects.
I've put a link to a couple of pics, my 1983 Force 2, a 1983 Force 30 and a pic I scrounged of a Force 6.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn153/46traveller/1983Force2.jpg
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn153/46traveller/Force301983.jpg
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn153/46traveller/two.jpg

I Roll With The Eighties And Rock With The Washburns

PKmusic · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2009, 04:47:11 PM »

I have a Force 6, bought it used in mid-eighties for $500 from a derelict friend. I replaced the pickups with some Les Paul humbuckers in the early nineties, but still have the originals.

I don't play it much - it hasn't come out of the case in years. I prefer my actual Les Paul.

BTW, I found one on e-bay for sale. Nice pix. I am NOT the seller!

http://cgi.ebay.com/1980's-Washburn-Force-6-electric-guitar-Japan-MIJ-NEON_W0QQitemZ350177121704QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090312?IMSfp=TL090312121006r5074