Antoria Japcrap

[Delberthot]

I spotted this going on Ebay and managed to win it. Its just arrived so I've taken some pictures before I take it apart to clean it.

It is very funky so I'll be getting the metal parts into some cheap cola to clean them up then put it back together.
I have no idea how old it is and haven't had a chance to have a rake around to see if I can find a close approximation.

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I'll back later on with better pictures once its all cleaned up and back together

Edited September 9, 2010 by Delberthot

[Spoombung]

Antoria used to make quite good guitars back in the 70's, I remember.

[BIG.J]

Lol! Almost bought it myself... Had to resist...

[throwoff]

Me dad has an Antoria Les Paul from back in the 70's.

Its a real brick shithouse of a thing.

[Colledge]

i have a maple fretless (well maple / sapele /maple sandwich) and its great, don't see why there arn't more around. as long as they're properly coated imo they look and sound better than rw.

[Bassassin]

Nice, that. I was watching that one - just curious, no intention of pulling the trigger.

Anyway K77 prefix on the serial makes it November 1977 - these were from Fujigen, identical to the equivalent Ibanez/Greco etc models. Antorias have the same model numbers as Ibanez too, I think they're originally factory designations, and this will be a 2367B. It would once have had a nice tort plate - and no J pup! Speaking of which, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that turned out to be a DiMarzio.

Jon.

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='BIG.J' post='950653' date='Sep 9 2010, 02:25 PM']Lol! Almost bought it myself... Had to resist...[/quote]

+1

Wish I had now.

[Delberthot]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='950771' date='Sep 9 2010, 04:10 PM']Nice, that. I was watching that one - just curious, no intention of pulling the trigger.

Anyway K77 prefix on the serial makes it November 1977 - these were from Fujigen, identical to the equivalent Ibanez/Greco etc models. Antorias have the same model numbers as Ibanez too, I think they're originally factory designations, and this will be a 2367B. It would once have had a nice tort plate - and no J pup! Speaking of which, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that turned out to be a DiMarzio.

Jon.[/quote]


I think it may very well be a DiMarzio - it has the hex pole pieces and the patent applied for sticker on the underside. I've changed the cover as it was a tad funky and the poles were a bit rusty to reveal that it is a humbucker with 4 wires

[Annoying Twit]

Nice! Very nice!

[Soloshchenko]

Cool bass there mate for peanuts as well. Looking forward to seeing it cleaned up.

[Bassassin]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='950833' date='Sep 9 2010, 05:14 PM']I think it may very well be a DiMarzio - it has the hex pole pieces and the patent applied for sticker on the underside. I've changed the cover as it was a tad funky and the poles were a bit rusty to reveal that it is a humbucker with 4 wires[/quote]
Red, black, white & green wires? That's a DiMarzio Model J alright. Finally got a matched pair of these in my CSL Jazz & it sounds lovely.

Looking forward to seeing this scrubbed up.

J.

[Delberthot]

Some pictures taken during cleaning








Don't get your hopes up too much for a completely transformed bass - I just wanted to get rid of the funk

As you can see, some helpful chappie has added lines to the side and top edge with their finest magic marker or similar. it would originally only appear to have had side dots.

Edited September 11, 2010 by Delberthot

[Delberthot]

Finished for now - There's a huge difference in output between what I assume to be the original P pickup and the much hotter J pickup which I'm not happy about but being Japcrap I'm not about to spend a great deal rectifying it.

I have thought about buying a cheap set of pickups or even disconnecting the P pickup and fitting a Bartolini 2 band active EQ which I have going spare at the minute.

I may also get myself a nice cheap cream scratchplate ( I don't do tort ) in the future, we'll see.

Edited September 11, 2010 by Delberthot

[Rayman]

I was watching that one too, good score, it looks like a cracker. I had an Antoria Jazzstar guitar, it was really nice.

If I was replacing the pickguard, it'd have to be another black one.

[Delberthot]

I've decided that its not for me so I'm offering this for sale now.