Very good MIJ AS80 with wrong YEAR info

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Author Message Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 05-2006 Posted on Sunday, November 05, 2006 - 12:20 pm:    This beautiful MIJ AS80, F98206xx made by Fuji Gen in 1989, with a tortoise pickguard, chrome Gibraltar II bridge and Quik Change II tailpiece, was offered with the wrong assumption that it was a 1998 guitar. Of course the reserve was not met. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270050735586 This one is a 1989! Ginger Johns Username: Johns Registered: 02-2001 Posted on Sunday, November 05, 2006 - 9:08 pm:    Ginger: I disagree. Here's the AS80 from the '98 catalog. Note the shape of the headstock, headstock emblem shape, f-hole shape and finish...identical. http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/1998/98025.jpg If it where from '89 (and I don't see any AS80s shown in the catalogs that year) it would have the thin tapered headstock that appeared around '87/'88 and lasted thru '96. Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 1:56 am:    The big "CE" ( Consultants Europe ) on the headstock makes it a '97 or later. The Bear Ibnzplyr Username: Ibnzplyr Registered: 03-2004 Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 2:46 am:    So is this really MIJ? Scott Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 05-2006 Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 3:20 am:    Johns is right. The seller made a mistake, not the YEAR, but a different one. It is an 1998 ArtSTAR (with the wide headstock). but not the AS80 (typo). It is the MIJ AS180! And it didn't get a higher bid than $306.99 We've all been sleeping! The seller was lucky having set a reserve... Ginger

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