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jazzyvee
Senior Member
Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 643
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:46 pm:   Edit Post

Someone selling an Alembic Strat on UK Ebay????
Didnt know alembic made strats.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200048990757&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1

(Message edited by jazzyvee on November 21, 2006)
jahnahisti
Junior
Username: jahnahisti

Post Number: 36
Registered: 9-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 1:47 am:   Edit Post

Hi Jazzyvee,
This has nothing to do w/ Alembic except the style. These were discussed on another forum. Here is the excerpt from ibanezcollectors.com:
The question was whether or not Ibanez sold guitars under other names.

Greco was sold by Kanda Shokai, a domestic distributor that was known as the “Ibanez of Japan” if you can believe that. Cimar made some of our less complicated Fender copies. We sold some lower-end instruments with their name on them for a while. Starfield was a new brand launched by Hoshino with slightly different specs that could be sold to non-Ibanez dealers. (Starfield is “Hoshino” roughly translated into English.)

(Message edited by jahnahisti on November 21, 2006)
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1141
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 3:56 am:   Edit Post

I played a Cimar Jazz copy for most of my teen years, so it served to teach me most of what I know now. I was lucky that the previous owner had replaced the tuners with the same Schallers that Alembic uses - it should also have gotten a replacement for the two-part bridge, but that never happened.

It was definitely low-cost, but perfectly playable. Perhaps the lack of sustain led me to play busy lines, an affection I'm fighting to this day.

It's now hiding under a bed in my parents' house. I pick it up only to find that I'm spoiled rotten by my Alembics.
jazzyvee
Senior Member
Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 644
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 12:47 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks for clearing that for me.
Now you mention it I had a Red Cimar guitar in my late teens. It was a Gibson Marauder copy.
I really rewired and butchered that guitar by changing pickups and adding loads of switches to put the pickups out of phase and series, parallel wiring between pickups. It was a good learning curve.
It sounded good too.
Jazzyvee

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