| Author | Message | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 643 Registered: 6-2002 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
