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I have this guitar and gave it to a friend over a year ago and just
got it back. I was wondering if anybody knew anything about it:
I assume it's a 60's or 70's Japanese copy of a Fender Jaguar. The
pickup selectors say "MIC1" and "MIC2" and it says "Made in Japan" on
the back.
It looks really rad, the whammy bar is great and nice and smooth..
unfortunately I don't think it's possible to get it intoned
correctly, it goes out of tune easily, and it's not very playable
(high action). It sounds alright though.
-Thor
That's a bit tricky.. It could be an anonymous knockoff. The trem unit
looks similar to the ones fitted to the old Silvertone guitars, tho:
-c*
Fred Pleasant wrote:
>
> I have this guitar and gave it to a friend over a year ago and just
> got it back. I was wondering if anybody knew anything about it:
>
>
> I assume it's a 60's or 70's Japanese copy of a Fender Jaguar. The
> pickup selectors say "MIC1" and "MIC2" and it says "Made in Japan" on
> the back.
>
> It looks really rad, the whammy bar is great and nice and smooth..
> unfortunately I don't think it's possible to get it intoned
> correctly, it goes out of tune easily, and it's not very playable
> (high action). It sounds alright though.
>
> -Thor
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Hi Thor,
This is defenitely a 60 or 70 Japanese "invasion guitar" a lot of
features are familiar witht the Early Aria Diamond guitars (Pick ups for
example) It looks like a weird Mosrite/Jaguar inspired guitar, given the
headstock etc...
I think this is made by Aria/Diamond but the released several "american"
sounding brand names.
I had a very simelar Aria Diomand for repair. Shimming the neck (As
Brain mentioned to me a few weeks ago) will do the trick on the high
action. The Pu's are nice but don't produce that much sound.
Jerry S.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Pleasant [mailto:]
Sent: donderdag 18 september 2003 3:57
To:
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Imperial Guitar
I have this guitar and gave it to a friend over a year ago and just
got it back. I was wondering if anybody knew anything about it:
I assume it's a 60's or 70's Japanese copy of a Fender Jaguar. The
pickup selectors say "MIC1" and "MIC2" and it says "Made in Japan" on
the back.
It looks really rad, the whammy bar is great and nice and smooth..
unfortunately I don't think it's possible to get it intoned
correctly, it goes out of tune easily, and it's not very playable
(high action). It sounds alright though.
-Thor
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According to "Guitar Stories, Vol. 1", that guitar was imported by the Imperial
Accordion Co. of Chicago in 1965 and possibly manufactured in Italy. I can't see
the "Made in ..." stamp clearly enough in your photos.
They show a pic of that exact guitar in the book.
That looks alot like a tiesco del ray. The rocker
switches are above the pick guard rather than below,
and it has the metal around the pick guard, but it
looks alot like the del ray.
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The stamp says "Made in Japan" .. I've heard that in the 60's eleki
(surf) got really big in Japan and that the Japanese made all sorts
of weird surf guitars and LOTs of them. I've always assumed that
this was a product of that.. but that's interesting that it was made
to be imported to the US. Perhaps it was manufactured by Tiesco for
Imperial or something.
Thanks everybody, all interesting to know.
--- In , "greenbirdbath"
<greenbirdbath@y...> wrote:
> According to "Guitar Stories, Vol. 1", that guitar was imported by
the Imperial Accordion Co. of Chicago in 1965 and possibly
manufactured in Italy. I can't see the "Made in ..." stamp clearly
enough in your photos.
>
> They show a pic of that exact guitar in the book.
