OT: Vintage Fernandes Information

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Author Message   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 1:46 pm:    Sorry for the OT post, as I know Fernandes guitars are not related to Ibanez/Hoshino, but I'm trying to find a source of older Fernandes catalogues and/or information on dating older Fernandes guitars (especially their strat and tele copies) by headstock shape and logo design. I'm constantly impressed by the depth of knowledge you all have regarding vintage Japanese guitars, so I feel this is my best shot. Besides Ibanez, my passion is Fernandes, specifically their strats and teles. If anyone has links, please send them to chucke@chucke.com. I've been to the Fernandes official sites (Japanese and American) and they are no help. Also, there's a 1990's catalogue at Vintax.com, but I'm not too keen on ponying up $20 for it. -Chuck   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 2:20 pm:    Have you tried Google with "fernandes guitar history". Fernandes has Burny brand too. Other brands than Ibanez should be discussed in Miscellaneous. Juha   Japanguitar Username: Japanguitar Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 11:26 am:    There are some Fernandes catalogues at their Japanese home page http://www.fernandes.co.jp   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 7:20 pm:    3 weeks ago I posted a scan of a 1986 pricelist and a test of two Revolvers by the late Willy Heynen, a Belgian studio guitarist and editor of Meet Music Magazin. They are in the Account Holders Test Area. The price list was quite good, but the article gave me a headache. I still don't see how I can get that SOAB under 50K and READABLE. Coffee, more coffee... Ginger   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 4:37 am:    Ginger, Scanners can read the text and save it as ASCII (or other .txt) file, can't they. It is not necessary to make image or .pdf file. Text file may need checking/editing after scanning. Juha   Johns Username: Johns Registered: 2-2001 Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 8:50 am:    Talajuha: Scanners can only capture images. It's OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software that can take images and convert them to text files. Sometimes the OCR software is bundled with the scanner, sometimes not. Ginger: The size limit for images on the board is 100k.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 12:11 pm:    100K? I thought it was 50K. That could help... I must have some ReadIris lying around somewhere, but the transport belt of my old scanner had problems with the last part of colour pics. Now I have an Epson Perfection 1650 from the scouting fancy fair, that works really great and fast! I wanted a colour laser printer badly, and if I wanted an all-in-one it was just too expensive. So now I have an HP 1600 and the Epson. I print my text drafts on my old Brother laser printers, which are all terrible (I have 3). The software of the Epson decides automatically how to scan the image. I haven't tried an OCR software with the Epson yet. Now I can finally make good colour scans instead of halftone scans, which was good enough for text documents. But think of catalogues and stuff: I collected several magazine cassettes full of catalogues for more than 20 years. It's always nice to show a nice colour image, instead of using too much text, haha... But I don't dare to scan pages from commercially sold books, because that could cause trouble if I put that on the forum. And I have to keep typing for my fingers and wrist, says my physiotherapist. So, I guess she'll be satisfied by now... Ginger   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 7:04 pm:    "Talajuha: Scanners can only capture images. It's OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software that can take images and convert them to text files. Sometimes the OCR software is bundled with the scanner, sometimes not." Oh, really? I am amazed! Especially because of "software that can take images and convert them to text files"!!! I have always thought optical character recognition is implementation of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and machine vision. It (the sofware) recognises images of characters taken by the scanner and its software. In most cases a scanner and its sofware, OCR included, is seen as one entity. I'll be as IT smart ass as you ask me to be. I tried to keep it simple in my original post. Juha   Johns Username: Johns Registered: 2-2001 Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 9:41 pm:    Juha: I guess I'm showing my age. When I first started buying scanners, OCR was in it's infancy and wasn't generally available...let alone bundled and integrated with the hardware.   Petruz Username: Petruz Registered: 5-2004 Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 9:48 am:    does anybody know by chance where did yamaha make its guitars in the 70s/80s?   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 5:56 pm:    Ginger, email me the scan of the price list (article too if you want) and I'll reduce the number of colors and then make it a GIF, that should drop its size, no matter how big it is: chucke@chucke.com   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 10:35 pm:    Reduce the number of colours? Which one do you wanna keep? The black or the white? It's in the Members Testing Area as a JPEG, but I find the letters still too vague. It give you a headache like a Vertigo logo. Ginger   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 6:24 pm:    Most scanners, even when scanning in gray scale, use a number of different grays. So you have black, white, and maybe 254 other shades of gray. If you can reduce the total number of "colors" to like 8 or 4, then a GIF can dramatically reduce the file size.

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