What kind of guitar is this?

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What kind of guitar is this?

Post by Stereordinary » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:36 pm

A friend of mine just picked up this badass mystery axe at a local shop and we can't figure out what it is.  There's no brand on the headstock.  Anybody?

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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by StevenO » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:57 pm

It looks similar to one of those old yamaha hollowbody(or is semi-hollow?) guitars from the 60s/70s.
It could be anything really, I'm assuming it's japanese?

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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by fuzzjunkie » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:30 pm

certainly looks Japanese to me with the humbuckers and that shape of neck blockage.
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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by Stereordinary » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:01 pm

Yeah, it's Japanese.  In fact the only text anywhere on it is "Made in Japan" on the back of the neck plate (it's a bolt-on).  He's gettin' me a pic of the headstock soon, so I'll post that when I get it.
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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by i love sharin foo » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:29 pm

The HBs, bridges, and look of the neck/ inlays looke like an offshoot of Ibanez. Maybe a Ventura or something like that. I had a real cool Ventura Gretsch Country Gentleman replica that played and sounded real nice (but it has a Gibson style headstock  >:( ).

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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by StevenO » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:53 pm

http://i15.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/02/7f/1b_1_b.JPG

This is the similar yamaha I was talking about, not the same of course, but you get the idea.

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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by Stereordinary » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:58 pm

Ooh yeah!  That looks a lot like it.  Any idea what the model name of that Yamaha is?
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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by StevenO » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:45 pm

No idea, sorry. But some google searching could probably leading you in some interesting directions.

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Re: What kind of guitar is this?

Post by Orang Goreng » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:01 am

Maybe this link can help?
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