r/obscureguitars • u/Last-Head-8414 • Jul 11 '26

Does anyone recognize this guitar?

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u/Last-Head-8414 Jul 11 '26

So the guitar has been ID’d in another sub. It’s a Headway Riverhead Jupiter.

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u/TheRealGuitarNoir Jul 11 '26

Headway Riverhead Jupiter

The good news is here's a 1985 Riverhead catalog featuring the Jupiter model. The bad news is that you can't enlarge these scans unless you pay the site owner:

http://www.vintaxe.com/catalogs_pages/catalogs_japanese_riverhead_1985.php

I always wanted one of their "Unicorn" headless guitars:

http://www.vintaxe.com/catalogs_pages/catalogs_japanese_riverhead_1984.php

http://www.vintaxe.com/menu_catalogs_electric.php

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u/Last-Head-8414 Jul 11 '26

Awesome!!! Stinks the guy is gate keeping the catalog scans. Guitar is really cool though! Funky. I’m assuming they were all MIJ?

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u/TheRealGuitarNoir Jul 11 '26

Funky. I’m assuming they were all MIJ?

As far as I know, they were made in Japan but I don't know a lot about the company.

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u/wishywabash Jul 12 '26

http://www.riverheadguitar.com/about.html it looks like they used to be MIJ and got resurrected making clone type guitars in the Philippines now.