The wrong AS-50 (bolt-on Artstar 1998...

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Author Message   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 10:12 pm:    By not mentioning the Artstar series, people may think that this guy is selling a real early 1980's vintage Artist AS-50. But he isn't: http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//m uziek.marktplaats.nl/snaarinstrumenten-gitaren-ele ktrisch/133910324-ibanez-artstar-as-50-model-335.h tml Handwritten serial number: 8020246 That's a Cort serial number from February 1998 (no letter after 1996). Dang, he protected the pictures. But that didn't stop me before... Just wait and see... 630 euros is outrageous! Even that 400 euros is too much. Poor guy. If he knew this was a bolt-on Korean one... Ginger   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 11:10 pm:    Hmm... They probably figured out how I did it last time, with that AL100. They made it more difficult this time. They put it in a table with a protection macro. Anyway, not enough to stop me... Oh yeah the guy who bids 400 euros is 7okai. 7okai, I would go for at least an AS80 for that money. This is a rip-off. This Jan from Doorn doesn't show the neck attachment and the headstock. I think that's not fair. He's asking a lot more than the guitar was new back in 1998, because these were really cheap. If this was the same like Acetan's, then it would have been interesting of course. But Jan ain't Santa... Ginger   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 11:24 pm:    Hmmm... too much compression... not necessary... Let's make that as sharp as possible... Ginger   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 7:34 am:    Pictures from web pages are stored in your browsers "Temporary Internet Files" folder on your hard disc. Ginger, I guess you do something in a too difficult way when you edit images ??? Here one of the original pics, 12 kB, your version 45 kB Juha   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 10:13 am:    I did NOT take them from the Temporary Internet Files. I used 3 different programs to get them, because they were embedded in table cells with a protection macro. I opened the Netscape Web Composer and copied the cells. I pasted the cells into Open Office Writer, there I copied them and started new images from the clipboard in Corel Photo House. Many ways lead to Rome. Ginger   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 11:52 am:    Guys, you can usually just hit the PrtScr (Print Screen) key on your keyboard, for ANYTHING that is showing on your screen, and it will copy the bits to your clipboard. You can open up Paint and just do a paste and bingo, you have your photos. No searching caches, extra programs or anything. (That's if you have Windows, of course.)   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 1:54 pm:    And many ways lead to ICW. Thanks for the tip, now I can start a new image from the clipboard in Corel Photo House and cut the crap away. So then I used 1 Photo program to save the cropped picture as a JPEG. That's good. It's always good to have that extra piece of Rosetta's stone for Cort's handwritten serial numbers, 'cause man, I don't know who taught him Arabic ciphers, but this guy drove me nuts. Not being able to read the serial number of my own AS120. Waahh! But it sure motivated me to do some serial number research, that goes a little further than Cappy's list, which was the first step of course. But then I had to look for detail pics of labels of other Cort made jazz boxes and find out which digit each character was meant to be. Especially his 5 is terrible. You can read it as a 4 or as a 7, but you never expect that to be a 5. So now I can help others with the same problem and warn for this $926.- Korean bolt-on rip-off, because that's what EUR630.- is today. And then I want to bring the common knowledge about Ibanez acoustics serial numbers on the same level as that of the common knowledge about the electrics, because serial numbers tell us a lot, if you know how to interpret them. Ginger   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 6:11 pm:    Marktplaats has pictures as .jpg files on its server and their URLs can be seen in the source listing of the web page. The right click blocking can be bypassed in many ways. http://fotos.marktplaats.nl/kopen/7/5c/H2yNURqINC7 nZjvlyRBlqw==.jpg I like the MISS method. Make It Simple Stupid! Juha

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