Transition from 1978 "SA100" to 1979 ...

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Author Message   Molemi Username: Molemi Registered: 7-2007 Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 - 2:16 pm:    Dear colleagcters! I just had an interesting email exchange with the seller of the auction (see link below) and thought this could be of a wider interest, I quote myself: I am interested in resolving this issue: The online accessible catalogue of Ibanez (maybe Greco as well, as you say) of 1978 has an "SA100" with "mickey mouse ear" cutaway tips and the large head most Ibanez guitars of that year had (MCs, NCs, PHs...). It further has an "ebonized rosewood" fingerboard (whatever that is...), dot markers, Super 80 Humbuckers and Gibraltar and Quick Change chrome hardware. The catalogue says it sports a laminated maple neck and birch body (and there is also an SA400 with a chicken head switch known today from the Gibson "Lucille"). I got the 1978 catalogue from their German distributor MEINL: http://www.t3-kundenserver.de/htmlpages/redasys/_c ore/databases/t_meinl-uploads/1978_gesamt.pdf In contrast to this, the "AS100" of 1979 has a narrower (parallel sides) headstock, more pointed cutaway tips, mahogany neck, ebony fretboard and Super 70 humbuckers. If the guitar you offer has the features of the "SA100" but the label of an "AS100" then it must be the "missing link" between both series, i.e. the new series must have been already ready for production and they took the new labels but finished off their stock of parts for the SA100 for the rest of the year. This is my explanation. What do you think? Regards :-J Ebay Item #160133173471   Guitartim Username: Guitartim Registered: 4-2001 Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 - 4:11 pm:    Ask the seller to provide a photo of the interior label. That might shed some light on the guitar's model name. The BIN appears on the high side to me. Maybe it is one of the in-between or transition models. You never know for sure with older Ibanez. Maybe another member can give you more specifics.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 - 4:17 pm:    One thing's for sure: you won't find a "transition model" between SA400 and AS400. THEY are totally different. Ginger   Molemi Username: Molemi Registered: 7-2007 Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 - 4:35 pm:    Hi Guitartim! The seller wrote that the label clearly says "AS100" with a luthiers signature in red ink. And the logo on the headstock is different from that on the label... Maybe a really interesting transition model as being made November 1978! :-J

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