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Its Back! 70's Fender Jazz made in Japan? Not!


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Its back but without stating its a Fender. I don't know if the seller is mad or bad to try and pass this off as a Fender. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Japan-Jazz-Bass-early-70er-/261319490395?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cd7dafb5b"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Japan-Jazz-Bass-early-70er-/261319490395?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cd7dafb5b[/url] but it has the best sound! I think the last time it had new strings it must have been the 60's!

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[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1384455219' post='2276999']
Weren't these early ibanez?





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*the above statement may not be true*
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I believe Cimar guitars were made in the Ibanez factory.

Btw what do we think 'you will need look after the neck' means? Requires attention!?

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[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1384455436' post='2277004']
I believe Cimar guitars were made in the Ibanez factory.
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[pedant]Technically there's never been an Ibanez factory - Ibanez & Cimar are brands owned by Hoshino, who use various factories to manufacture their products.[/pedant]

Anyway, in the 70s & 80s Ibanez was made predominantly (possibly exclusively) by Fujigen Gakki, who are probably best known for MIJ Fenders & Squiers. Copy-era Cimars are quite a bit different from their Ibby counterparts & I tend to think they're from a different factory, although I couldn't say where.

As for this J copy, actually Cimar's a possibility - I had a Cimar J yonks ago which shared a lot of the details you can see on this - round-end pups, little Gotoh tuners, big chrome trc etc. But then again an awful lot of JapCrap Jazz copies do. Really, it's not "an" anything - if it ever had a logo it's long-gone & most brands were pretty meaningless anyhow

And I still think it was a Columbus. Probably. :P

J.

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