My Penguin Robin

[Andreas Rosengren]

Hi all!

As a new member to this forum I guess I should start by showing my Standard Medley IV (if I remember the name correctly). I have had this guitar for about 15 years and I'm still surprised how good this guitar is.

/Andreashttp://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/4141.jpg

[Andreas Rosengren]

...correction!

Well, since it is always best to correct your own mistakes I just looked at the vintage catalog from 1988 where guitars like mine are known as Medley Standard I - of course ;)
Wich also leads me to guess the year of my guitar to something like 1988 (makes sense to me)

By the way - during this time (1988-ish) there seamed like the swedish agent for Robin bought a huge pile of guitars of this and similar type. Does anyone here know anything about this? The reason I wonder is that in my world the Robin guitars are kind of unusual, but at the same time I have quite a few friends that has had custom painted Medley Standard Guitars - wich to seams like a somewhat statistically strange - any theories out there?

[Lars Tong Strömberg]

Interesting. I am from Sweden too, and remember quite a few Medleys around in the early 90s. Most were blue metallic though, cannot remember I have seen any custom painted ones. Yours is really nice though.

[BCRGreg]

All you Swedish fellas have long names. Aren't there are Fred Joneses there? LOL

As to the number of graphic Medley Standards... Maybe the distributor thought that they were different enough to import a bunch, and they are all good enough that people notice them?

It's great to have members of this forum from all over the world.

[Andreas Rosengren]

Long names ....hmm...then you should see our...haha

I agree with you - it is really nice to find people around the globe that share ones strange obsessions with odd guitars ;) Things was just soo much harder before the Internet came along!

/AR

[BCRGreg]

I heard the name was inversely proportionaate to the....uh...equipment.

I have a long name....dammit.

[The Shark]

About the long name thing, Greg. Fourteen letters and the Von was deleted sixty years ago! That would be seventeen letters. Size 12.5 shoes too. Big hands.

It's a cruel world where the little guy isn't "the little guy". That's why none of us shower in gym class anymore.

Seriously, welcome to the Swedish folks. This is one of the most enjoyable forums on the planet. Not too many egos, not too much showing of teeth, and the Robin folks tease us with pics of what's coming.

Happy New Year to all on the Robin Lovers Forum!

[BCRGreg]

My teeth are strong.

[eric nootebos]

Hello long-named people with strong teeth!
Funny, my Medley originally had a painting on it of Robin (of batman) and the word: Wham!
It was fun, but really got bored of it and slightly changed it into wat it is now. (pictures, see them a couple of messages earlyer).
Anyway, but i have the idea that your's is a esp-made one?

[Andreas Rosengren]

Eric: is that the black beauty with the pick guard story?

About the ESP issue - I never really reflected that hard about the background of this guitar I remember back when I bought it how good it actually was. It had the most amazing sustain I had ever exepirienced and since i always have been a strat guy I figured it would make as a very nice complement to the more "traditional" guitars I had. When I went to GIT in LA back in -93 I first really got to know the brand Robin a little more.

Guitars are strange things - it doesn't really matter howmuch it cost when it comes to playing it. Of course you might improve the odds of making a very nice instrument by adding some devotion into its manufacturing, which typically and sadly leads to adding a figure to its price. I've never tried a Tom Anderson guitar that wasn't almost perfect - while at the same time you might be lucky enough to find a cheap chinese guitar that is great.
What is the story about the ESP-made guitars anyway? (did I mention I was new here? - haha)

Btw-I will post a new photo of the penguin guitar since I realized from the photo that it needs some hygenic attention...sorry about that http://robinlovers.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif

/Andreas