Here's a curious little clip i just found from 1982 :Īnd if you can find a copy of the dvd of the coen brothers film 'the lady killers' there is an interesting little 'dvd extra' doco about ferrington and his workshop. I haven't laid eyes on it for 20 years, but i guess it was just a picture book of his instruments. it was amazing to see a book ( down at my local public library ) about a single luthier and, well it was a pretty interesting looking book that literally jumped off the shelf due to it's parallelogram (?) shape.
Like a lot of folks i guess - i found out about ferrington from the spectacular book that came out in 1992 ( just looked it up! ) from the pre web days when the only books i could find about guitarmakers/making were instructional things like cumpiano & sloane.
I too associate him with richard thompson, now that the shiny, pointy kramer ferrington acoustics that used to be in every music video have seemingly disappeared - i hope he got some good 'points' in that deal. At some point they also went from a small medium jumbo fret size (found on my guitar) to jumbo frets (which everyone else seems to have)Īs for the idea of it being made in 87.He seems like a really interesting character. I think these weren't in production for very long and they went to the 24 fret banana headstock design pretty soon, for good reason. I have a 98 serial which has the beak headstock, skull tuners, floyd and only 22 frets. If there's any logic to the serial your guitar was made in '99. So yes, it does seem like your guitar would be an FX404SX S/D was for the standard with a D-Tuna and headstocks could be reversed or normal but it seems like at some point they may have used SN for normal headstock orientation and SX for reversed headstock (but then they didn't do that for the beak headstock). who knows, they really made no sense of it. S would denote "Standard" (as opposed to "C" for "custom" for the maple top strikers)
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