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jasonparent
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
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or me [and everyone who's ever looked at it] could be totally totally wrong and it could be a legit epiphone.
i've found an epi fat 310 that was made in indonesia in the 90s/00s and is a strat copy.
it's not the same guitar [these things came in hbss and mine is hb-hb], plus mine has a more advanced tuning system, it was made in japan [apparently....?], and there's no serial number on the backplate. but, if epiphone made a strat copy from indonesia in 2000, maybe there's little reason to think they weren't making strat copies in japan some time between 1970 and 1985.
meaning, maybe it is a real epi after all, and i've accomplished nothing. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| At the end of the day..... it's still a very nice guitar. |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: "Hit The North"
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| Epiphone DEFINITELY (sorry for the shouting) marketed Stratotypes in the 80s, made in Korea mostly, but I daresay other places. There was a point around the mid-late 80s where the LP/SG was "out" and the Strat or "Superstrat" (a humbucker or two) was in. I worked for a mag around this time and the Superstrat was everywhere. Epiphone did a load of Fenderlikes, shamelessly, in this period. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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But.... at the end of the day..... it's still a nice looking guitar.  |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| What are you trying to say, Lee? |
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