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My first electric guitar was a '76 Ibanez LP copy. Cherry sunburst. I still have it. Fantastic guitar.
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Cool. Did you get it back in '76 or did you acquire it years later? Do you know what model? 2351, 2651, etc?
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'Made in China' has definitely come a long way in the last ten years but I doubt it will ever equal 'Made in Japan'. The Japanese quality is off the charts. I love those old lawsuit guitars but I too remember the stigma that came with them. You can find them for a song on the used marked sometimes and they are well worth it.
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I got it in 1979 used. No idea what model, but it's a bolt on. Right now I have it stored at a friend's house.
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It's not a lawsuit, but my Ibanez Blazer was a gift from a friend in the 90s, it's not a guitar that I would willingly part with. It plays beautifully and, if I get to the stage where I don't like the sound, I'll just replace the (original) pickups.
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The inside joke at the junior-high some of my friends attended (there were two in our district) was the Datsun sedan that the English teacher drove... A couple years later, I came across the Domino copies of the Vox Phantom and some of the better Kent models - definitely a step or two up... Shortly thereafter my dad and I went to the New York Auto Show, where he was seriously checking out a then-new, then top-of-the-line Toyota Crown, with its then-cutting-edge OHC-6 engine (Pontiac was touting a similar powerplant), for potential purchase; as we walked away he said, "If they ever start bringing those over here in quantity the American makers are in real trouble..." I was in college at the beginning of the "lawsuit" era - had a student who owned one of those LP Customs (fully competitive with the crap Gibson was producing at the time), a bandmate who bought herself a red-label Yamaha 12-string (very impressive - and which she still owns TMK), and a bud who nailed a MIJ Favilla solid-BRW/spruce D-28 copy for $150 (also very impressive - and I'm still kicking myself for turning him on to it and not buying it myself )... Shortly after the evil celestial juxtaposition of the oil "crisis," the height of the Norlin era, the Fender/CBS debacle, and a downturn in Martin's QC I took a ride with a bud in his new Mazda over to Sam Ash, where I sat down to an extended workout on the aforementioned Ibanez Johnny Smith... I never looked at Japanese guitars - or cars - the same way again...
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