Can I show off my guitars here?

[ELVIS]

A friend of mine in New Jersey had a very similar tobacco colored Ibanez with the same effects in the early 80's...

I remember the tremolo worked and he thought that guitar was the shit...

[Hardrock69]

Pretty sunburst!

[Cato]

Hummmm I can't find the same guitar on old Ibanez catalogue...

http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-Catalogs/

[ThrillsNSpills]

Artist series?

http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/index.htm

maybe in the neighborhood

[jhale667]

I know a guy that is "the guy"...

Think it definitely pre-dates those by a few years, Thrills... but definitely on the right track, I bet.

Hummmm I can't find the same guitar on old Ibanez catalogue...

http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-Catalogs/

I just sent the pic to my contact at the company... let's see if he or his can provide some insight...

[ThrillsNSpills]

any time Cato breaks his piggy bank and goes to the pawn shop it's a party.

Certainly you could put something interesting in the effects option in the guitar.

Someone posted one a couple weeks ago where when the guitarist hit the toggle up position it sounded like an ascending 5th fret G string G harmonic. It seemed like a real left field kind of option to hit that in the middle of a flurry of notes. We may have luck if we work backwards from the year of the above issue, which was '78

[ThrillsNSpills]

Yeah, I hear ya J, just too lazy to go back by years at the moment.

[chefcraig]

The artist series seems the closest in body style. Is it possible that the effects were added by the original owner? The pick guard and the plastic piece under all of those knobs and switches looks awfully crudely made.

[jhale667]

The artist series seems the closest in body style. Is it possible that the effects were added by the original owner? The pick guard and the plastic piece under all of those knobs and switches looks awfully crudely made.

Possible...I've seen old guitars like that with built-in effects, but not sure I've ever seen an Ibby with 'em before...but hey, if it's from the 70s it's not beyond the realm of possibility...

[jhale667]

Yeah, I hear ya J, just too lazy to go back by years at the moment.

Me too, that's why I went directly to the source...lol

[ThrillsNSpills]

The artist series seems the closest in body style. Is it possible that the effects were added by the original owner? The pick guard and the plastic piece under all of those knobs and switches looks awfully crudely made.

yeah the Scotch tape is a big tipoff as well. lmao

[ThrillsNSpills]

It looks like it's in great shape though otherwise. Certainly it's got potential.

[chefcraig]

Possible...I've seen old guitars like that with built-in effects, but not sure I've ever seen an Ibby with 'em before...but hey, if it's from the 70s it's not beyond the realm of possibility...

The seventies was indeed a bizarre time. I remember an article in Circus magazine from the mid seventies about all of these guys that were putting homemade gizmos in/on their guitars. There was a Japanese guitarist featured in one of the photos, who had this striking-looking crescent shaped guitar with a built in air compressor, allowing him unlimited sustain. Hell, even Kramer experimented for a while there with guitar necks made out of aluminum, for cryin' out loud.

[jhale667]

The "un-warp-able" neck material...there are Travis Bean guitars (another Gary Kramer company) with aluminum necks still floating around out there...

[ThrillsNSpills]

The seventies was indeed a bizarre time. I remember an article in Circus magazine from the mid seventies about all of these guys that were putting homemade gizmos in/on their guitars. There was a Japanese guitarist featured in one of the photos, who had this striking-looking crescent shaped guitar with a built in air compressor, allowing him unlimited sustain. Hell, even Kramer experimented for a while there with guitar necks made out of aluminum, for cryin' out loud.

Did he use it on Heroes, by Bowie or was that an E-bow?
All I know is that I couldn't stand that effect after Ed overused a sustainer.