let's see them "lawsuit"/copy/rip-off guitars!!!
- Pacafeliz
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let's see them "lawsuit"/copy/rip-off guitars!!!
ok since on the other thread lotsa ibanez copies are being mentioned, post pics of you ibanez, tokai, greco, maya, el degas, univox, marlboro, kasuga, hondo, aria, yamaha, takamine, eastwood, etc. etc. "lawsuit" rip-offs!
as an additional drool-goodie i give you this site: http://www.guitarsjapan.com/index.html oooh yeah!!! take a looksie at the "sold" section. maaaaaaaaaaaan!!!
ok here's mine:
recently adquired "El Degas" Gibson ES-345 copy from the 70s
my 60s Univox Hi-Flyer (Mosrite Ventures copy - we all know!!!)
70s/80s Takamine, Martin D-18 (?) copy
LONG GONE...
70s Ibanez Rocket Roll, Gibson V copy ---- MAN i regret selling that one!
(i also did have the destroyer - explorer copy- but don't think i have pics of it anymore)
70s Ibanez, Ibanez L6S copy
...and since we're at it, as a boner bonus
i REALLY wanted to keep this one. 70s Ibanez Black Eagle bass
i also once had a Hondo II les paul custom copy... but i don't wanna talk about it.
(what a P.O.S.!!!)
rock on!
Pat.
as an additional drool-goodie i give you this site: http://www.guitarsjapan.com/index.html oooh yeah!!! take a looksie at the "sold" section. maaaaaaaaaaaan!!!
ok here's mine:
recently adquired "El Degas" Gibson ES-345 copy from the 70s
my 60s Univox Hi-Flyer (Mosrite Ventures copy - we all know!!!)
70s/80s Takamine, Martin D-18 (?) copy
LONG GONE...
70s Ibanez Rocket Roll, Gibson V copy ---- MAN i regret selling that one!
(i also did have the destroyer - explorer copy- but don't think i have pics of it anymore)
70s Ibanez, Ibanez L6S copy
...and since we're at it, as a boner bonus
i REALLY wanted to keep this one. 70s Ibanez Black Eagle bass
i also once had a Hondo II les paul custom copy... but i don't wanna talk about it.
(what a P.O.S.!!!)
rock on!
Pat.
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
- Rich
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Re: let's see them "lawsuit"/copy/rip-off guitars!!!
77 or 78 Univox Les Paul copy. I bought it for $40 in a thrift store in some random ass little town when I was driving through North Carolina.
- northern_dirt
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Re: let's see them "lawsuit"/copy/rip-off guitars!!!
My second Electric guitar was an Encore, Les Paul copy.. with only one PUP
(the other one was ripped out.. ) and it was a dimarrzio(sp)
I found it at a fleamarket/swapmeet in Tucson Arizona.. the guy wanted $20 for it, but I talked him down to $15..
I sold it years later for $1..
hahahaa..
(the other one was ripped out.. ) and it was a dimarrzio(sp)
I found it at a fleamarket/swapmeet in Tucson Arizona.. the guy wanted $20 for it, but I talked him down to $15..
I sold it years later for $1..
hahahaa..
'cleanest, best pleasure'
- Rich
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Hahaha! Damn, I thought $15 was the best deal ever, then I saw you sold it for $1!
Was it a bolt on neck?
Was it a bolt on neck?
- northern_dirt
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It was a bolt on..Rich wrote: Hahaha! Damn, I thought $15 was the best deal ever, then I saw you sold it for $1!
Was it a bolt on neck?
Well I got a free drum-set off the same guy that I sold for $200..
So it kinda evened it self out.. haha
'cleanest, best pleasure'
- eupat
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I own this LP body
I think it's an Ibanez
still looking for a neck...
I think it's an Ibanez
still looking for a neck...
si t'as mal aux cervicales, arrête le métal!
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Ha. I owned my first electric guitar when I was 14. It was a Marlin Sidewinder, basically a $trat copy - black with a white guard. I kept it for over a year even though I couldn't play a single chord. I thought guitars were cool at the time. Anyway, a friend came over & brought someone with him. The guy really liked the Sidewinder so we arranged to do a possible trade. He brought round his offering....Pacafeliz wrote: ....I also once had a Hondo II Les Paul custom copy... but i don't wanna talk about it.
(what a P.O.S.!!!)
.....a Hondo II - sorry, no pictures.
....I went for it. I didn't know if it played any better. It was a Les Paul copy like yours. It was a natural finish with a darker stripe of wood through the middle (like a Dodge Viper. Heheheheheh). Its that guitar that I part exchanged for my '59 Jazzmaster although back then it was a '59 Jazzmaster with a smoke damaged Squier Strat neck & a black 70's guard. Still a good deal though looking back!!
It took me another 7 years to learn how to play the fucker!!!
You think you can't, you wish you could, I know you can, I wish you would. Slip inside this house as you pass by.
- the older brother
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Pacafeliz wrote:
It looks like the lovechild of a Jazz Bass and a Burns Bison!!!!!
Someone knows where I can find the nearest woodchipper to throw my pieces of junk into?
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My first love:
'77 :-*
And my Greco:
'77 :-*
And my Greco:
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when i worked at a guitar shop i took this picture of an ibanez lawsuit:
- Pacafeliz
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nice ones!!! keep 'em coming!
i think those old "butterly" pickups are worth quite a bit these days.
btw, the "lawsuit guitars" are the ones with the gibson "open book" headstock, the (wonderful) white lester is a post-lawsuit. just a note.
i think those old "butterly" pickups are worth quite a bit these days.
btw, the "lawsuit guitars" are the ones with the gibson "open book" headstock, the (wonderful) white lester is a post-lawsuit. just a note.
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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You may be right, but I almost couldn't care less. I'll never part with that guitar or any part of it!Pacafeliz wrote:i think those old "butterly" pickups are worth quite a bit these days.
btw, the "lawsuit guitars" are the ones with the gibson "open book" headstock, the (wonderful) white lester is a post-lawsuit. just a note.
And you're right about the "lawsuit" statement, but I do sort of lump all of those Ibanez/Fuji-Gen Gaki guitars into one big group because of the quality. Which is of course superb.
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- sumlin
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Antoria (Ibanez) SG
Commodore 335
Excetro Mosrite
CSL (Ibanez) Tele Deluxe with real thing
Univox HF
CSL Dan Armstrong with early MIJ Jag
Arbiter SG Custom
I don't own all of these anymore (just the SG & Commodore) but I've had more lawsuit era guitars than anything else, Les Pauls, SGs, Teles, Strats, really great all of them.
- Pacafeliz
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WOW!!!
too many *SCHWINNNG*s to count!!!
...but i DO have a real one of thoses... heh heh
too many *SCHWINNNG*s to count!!!
...but i DO have a real one of thoses... heh heh
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.