Cool New SX Offering From Rondo

[Brian Krashpad]

What is up with Rondo? Every time I look at their online catalogue they have different guitars. They used to have a fairly high priced LP copy with everything you would want and Seymour duncan pickups, triple binding, gotoh bridges and tuners and now I can't find it.
Also it sounds like they don't have a showroom anymore.
What is the deal with them?

They closed their New Jersey store several years ago and only do mailorder now. As far as their import lines, both as to Agile and SX, they have always been fairly fluid in their model offerings. They get several shipments in a year, and for popular models Kurt often sells them out. Sometimes the model comes back with the next shipment, sometimes it doesn't.

They recently introduced a model sort of like a cross between the current Melody Maker (2 pickups with a scratchplate/controlplate, with the input jack mounted on top, as part of the controlplate) and LP Special (pickups were P-90's rather than the MM's singles), and it sold out in a day or so.

[marnold***]

Yeah, they didn't have p-basses for a good long time. Then when the first couple of shipments came in, I think everybody on TalkBass snapped them up as soon as they hit the site.