blaise.brown.7967
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Here is the headstock of the same guitar.
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daan
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Re: Here is the headstock of the same guitar.
A LOT of Asian import guitars are made by "3rd parties" (Company X wants to market a guitar, but they don't actually have a factory so they contract the manufacturing out to someone who does.) THe actual company who made the guitar then goes on to sell very very similar guitars with a different (or no) name on it, to whoever orders it. "Hoshino" owns the brand name "Ibanez" but there isn't an Ibanez factory somewhere-anything they sell is made in a half-dozen different places all over Asia. I'm gonna guess yours is either an early "Artcore" with the name sanded off, or whichever factory made them for Hoshino also sold a bunch of their leftovers/demos/whatever to use up stock. That shape headstock got used on a lot of their 70's Artist guitars, and some of their more recent MIC stuff. I'm not saying your guitar isn't nice or whatever, it looks cool. It's just not something like finding a 59 LP at a yard sale...I had an Artcore bass I had to sell to pay bills, and I ended up buying a "Douglas" (Rondo Music house brand) that is identical in every way to the Artcore other than the name (and a couple hundred $) Matsumoku made guitars from the 60s until the late 80s for HUNDREDS of companies, at the end they were moving production to Korea so there were lots of guitars functionally identical to theirs, but with no name (or the same name as before but with slight enough differences to throw people off)
A LOT of Asian import guitars are made by "3rd parties" (Company X wants to market a guitar, but they don't actually have a factory so they contract the manufacturing out to someone who does.) THe actual company who made the guitar then goes on to sell very very similar guitars with a different (or no) name on it, to whoever orders it. "Hoshino" owns the brand name "Ibanez" but there isn't an Ibanez factory somewhere-anything they sell is made in a half-dozen different places all over Asia. I'm gonna guess yours is either an early "Artcore" with the name sanded off, or whichever factory made them for Hoshino also sold a bunch of their leftovers/demos/whatever to use up stock. That shape headstock got used on a lot of their 70's Artist guitars, and some of their more recent MIC stuff. I'm not saying your guitar isn't nice or whatever, it looks cool. It's just not something like finding a 59 LP at a yard sale...I had an Artcore bass I had to sell to pay bills, and I ended up buying a "Douglas" (Rondo Music house brand) that is identical in every way to the Artcore other than the name (and a couple hundred $) Matsumoku made guitars from the 60s until the late 80s for HUNDREDS of companies, at the end they were moving production to Korea so there were lots of guitars functionally identical to theirs, but with no name (or the same name as before but with slight enough differences to throw people off)
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Re: Here is the headstock of the same guitar.
Until the Mods merge the two threads about this guitar, this one follows on from https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?308106-What-make-of-guitar-is-this
Until the Mods merge the two threads about this guitar, this one follows on from https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?308106-What-make-of-guitar-is-this