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Show us your "Ibanez" guitars...........

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Someone had a thread about info on Ibanez guitars. I was wondering how many of us on this forum liked these guitars. I love 'em myself and have 4 of 'em in my possession. Here's some shots of them. The first picture is from left to right my 1978 Performer Series PF-200... This is one super playing guitar. They come wired differently than a LP as the volume and tone controls are both on top with the tone controls on the bottom.

The second one is my 1976 Ibanez LP Jr. with their version of a P-90. I also have a McEwan B-Bender installed on this guitar...

The third one is a 1982 Artist in pearl white but the laquer has yellowed some. I have this guitar rewired with the top two knobs as a master volume and tone control. The bottom two knobs are "pull pots" with a coil tap in the rear and a phase switch in front. This guitar also has an ebony fingerboard..

The archtop on the right I re hashed a bit to do some gigs with an Elvis impersonator for the Scotty Moore stuff. It's a gold finish Artcore but the pickups have been changed to Duncan "Phat Cat" single coils. I also added the Bigsby Vibrato w/ roller bridge, Gibson "tulip" tuners and knobs that look like dice. That along with the "Sun Records" decal makes this one a rockabilly axe for sure... what do you have?...JH in Va.
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great guitars! love the rockabilly box and the frank reckard jr. w/bender...

i'd like to see more of the fender-exact-copy teles and strats....fernandez also....i've known some great ones in the past.
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Michael (Michael Lee?), I hope you're intending to post explanation of those many, many pages with names utterly unfamiliar to me (and I suspect to many others who have never had any contact with the Japanese instrument market). Tomson? Heerby? Jaramar? The Kasuga? Are these just various names used by one or a couple of manufacturers (e.g. Ibanez), or were all those Strat and Les Paul copies being made by different companies? What vintage is that literature?

It sure looks like in Japan there was (is?) a thriving world of instrument making and/or marketing, copy and otherwise, that far exceeded in vibrancy what was going on Stateside!
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Wow Michael, thats a pretty comprehensive catalog of Japanese guitars! :eek:

Ive just got one Ibanez.
Ok dont laugh, I was a long-haired shredder at one time. I was influenced by players like Paul Gilbert, Vai and others who had a penchant back then for really ugly colors. Fortunately I never went so far as to wear spandex, haha.

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Heres my old Ibanez RG550. It looks pink in the photo, but its really almost a day-glo orange cone color. I got this brand new back in 1987 and you can tell I put a lot of miles on it by the wear on the fingerboard. The original Edge® tremolo on it is one of the best they ever made. This model was very similar to the Steve Vai JEM which was introduced the same year. Strings go from perfectly in tune, to a pile of floppy spaghetti with the bar, right back to perfectly in tune!

I hadnt played it in a long time, mostly I just couldnt stand to look at that hideous color any longer, so I refinished it myself from one ugly color to another slightly less ugly color: green (but with natural wood grain brown and yellow in some areas).
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Michael, is that Artist double neck in sunburst your guitar? If so, that's a beauty if there ever was one. I think the white double neck is yours as I believe you've had it up for sale before on the Forum. I envy you collection of catalogs, it seems you have them for just about anything out there.

Chris, you mentioned the "Frank Rekard bender LP jr.". That's exactly why that guitar came into being. I watched an Austin City Limits show with Emmylou Harris in which Frank was playing with her and thought it'd be neat to have an LP Jr. with a bender so I looked around and came up with an Ibanez Jr. for only $125 with a hardshell case which I thought was a helluva deal. I sent it to Conneticut to Paul McEwan after looking at other benders as it didn't require any routing of the guitar for installation. I thought of a HipShot at first but this bender works like a Parsons/White in that you push down on the neck to operate it....

Clete, that's a nice "Shredder" you've got there. What does the "SHOEI" sticker stand for? Maybe SILVER HAIRED OLD & EAGER INSTRUMENTALIST" eh? :lol: :lol: ...JH in Va.
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Jerry Hayes wrote:...What does the "SHOEI" sticker stand for?...
Actually beside your very clever acronym now, and possibly a pun on the adjective "SHOWY" which was my intention, its actually the name of a manufacturer of motorcycle helmets. :D

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There was an article on Japanese guitar manufacturers in Guitar Player magazine back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Three of the leading manufacturers I think I can remember in that article were Fuji Gen Gakki, Tokai, and Matsumoku. I believe Fuji Gen Gakki made Ibanez guitars.
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