Cimar Bass - Slight Rustoration

[Pontiac Jack]

My mate Terry is a sculptor and hot rod builder. He had this beasty hanging in his factory as wall art.
He told me he wanted to learn to play bass,so I said I'd take the Cimar home and see if it could be revived. The only catch was - "DON'T TOUCH THE PATINA!!!" :nono:
I think it has spent part of its life floating in a creek,there was mud under the scratchplate! there was 1 screw holding each machinehead,the bridge pickup was missing and the other had a hole drilled through the side,and there was a massive crack in the back of the neck.
Anyway,I gave it a tweak,found an old Jap Fender pickup in the shed that fitted the original cover,repaired the neck and strung it up.
Happy to say it plays very nicely!



There are heaps of hairline cracks through the headstock. I've sealed the worst.


Here it is next to my later Cimar P Bass I restored about 10 years ago. You can see the earlier one uses a more accurate copy of a Jazz style body. The later one is based on a Blazer.


Here are the early and late logos


Cheers,PJ

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Cimar Bass - Slight Rustoration

Which shed? I'm coming for it. :headbang:

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Cimar Bass - Slight Rustoration

I am old enough to remember the later style logo decal when it was new.

 

[Pontiac Jack]

Re: Cimar Bass - Slight Rustoration

Which shed? I'm coming for it. :headbang:

Good luck Dude! You have to get past my armed guard - Will S-T !!!!! :rocket:

Cheers,PJ

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Cimar Bass - Slight Rustoration

So these were Ibanez Roadstar copies or did Ibanez copy their head?

 

[crusty philtrum]

Re: Cimar Bass - Slight Rustoration

So these were Ibanez Roadstar copies or did Ibanez copy their head?

From Wikipedia ...

"Cimar was a Hoshino Gakki guitar brand. Designs of Cimar guitars are sometimes very similar to Hoshino Gakki's Ibanez guitar brand. Cimar guitars appear in Hoshino Gakki catalogues. "

I've noticed, like several brands, that Cimar is never mentioned here, so I assume it may be one of the brands that never made it to the USA, but abounded here in Australia and quite possibly Asia.