Cimar ES-335

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Author Message   Elear Username: Elear Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 2:36 pm:    Hello! This is my first post here, and I hope not the last I love Cimar guitars, I have 2 Cimar mod Les Paul and recently I bought a Cimar ES-335 replica. I would like to know all about CIMAR guitars. I know that is an Ibanez brand and they made guitars since 70's til 80's in Japan, but that's all about. Here are some pics and mp3 of my new axe. I have to buy a pickguard and I would like to put in a Bigsby Tremolo. Enjoy and I'll be waiting for some cool info :D Greetings from Chile For demos please go to http://futuroesplendor.mud.cl. That's my humble blog, but is in spanish, so probably you will not understand. But don't worry! go to the second post where you will find some pics of my guitar and the check at the end of the post some lil "play" buttons. Click on it and you will listen some nice demos. take care!   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 11:16 pm:    Welcome! Your scratchplate is available for 11.50 euros E3-4B http://www.backandforth.nl/scratchplates.html + the bracket: PH-L5S-N SLAGPLAAT HOUDER /LANG VOOR JAZZGITAAR/VERCHROOMD € 4.50 And here's a suitable Bigsby: http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges,_tailpieces/Ar chtop_guitar_tremolos/3/Bigsby_Vibrato_Tailpieces. html I guess the pickups are Super 70s just like on the Ibanez models of the era. I don't know if there's any catalogue material available about these semi-acoustic Cimars. Mostly you're lucky if there are one or two Cimar pages in the Ibanez catalogue. This is Harry's specialty. If he hasn't got any material probably nobody has. Ginger   Elear Username: Elear Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 3:48 am:    yay! thanks for the answer. We have a lot of stores in Santiago (Chile) selling instruments and guitar parts (we love DIY!) so I'll check the pickguard soon. I'll try to get a white one, because I have those pickup rings and now I placed a white pickup switch, because the old one had some problems. I was reading about the Super 70 pickups (after seeing your comment about my pickups) and someone said that it has the name "Super 70" in the back of the pickup. I'll check tomorrow (4:00 AM here now) and I'll tell you thank you very much!!   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 9:03 am:    I white pickguard on a cherry red ES-335??? Man, that's ugly! Did you notice your trussrod cover and selector switch cap are black? I think it's better to buy everything black on a cherry red. So you probably should buy some black pickup rings too. But they are not expensive or difficult to find, since Super 70's have two screw holes and not three. So buy two black pickup rings like these: http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Hardware,_parts/Electr ic_guitar:_Covers_plates/Plastic_Mounting_Rings_Fo r_Humbucking_Pickups.html $3.99 a piece. Black on cherry red has always a successful contrast for ES-335 models. Ginger   Elear Username: Elear Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 3:31 pm:    I'll do it!!   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 4:08 pm:    Ginger, you are conservative. I think creamy-white pickguard would not be ugly at all on a cherry-red guitar. Juha   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 5:49 pm:    The cheap 4-ply WH/BK/WW/BK are NOT creamy. If you want something special, like aged, creamy, transparent or tortoise you pay different prices: $45.- minimum. Only aged black looks.... BLACK! And new black looks.... BLACK! You don't have to pay those rip-off prices for "Vintage" black pickguards ($1313.00 for an original 1961 ES-335 pickguard at Music Outlet-Shop on eBay). I guess I'm indeed conservative about the appearance of "Vintage" guitars. Ginger   Elear Username: Elear Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 9:26 pm:    ok ok! don't shoot your head, I'll buy a black set for my cherry :p (I'll buy a creamy one aswell but without pics :p) take care and thanks for all! Anyway, I'm hoping to find more info about wood and other things   Telstar Username: Telstar Registered: 4-2006 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 4:44 am:    Welcome Elear, nice guitar and great sounds in your blog. The guitar in question is a model no. 1970 from the year '76-77. Musik-meinl.de will be putting up the catalogue in its "katalog archiv" real soon. Here's a Pic in advance: The catalogue/pricelist says nothing about the wood, I'm afraid, but I'd guess a laminated body with a mahogany neck will be close? Funny how your guitar has Cimar on the headstock and the catalogue pic has no name... Your pics look much better than the catpics anxhow! Rob   Elear Username: Elear Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 9:21 am:    wow! that's fantastic. I'm very happy to have this new info about my guitar. I was comparing (dunno if this word is ok) my guitar with the catalogue pic and I find mine a lot better :p I love the way the wood looks and the "Cimar" on the headstock looks really cool :p (I really love the guitar eh? :p) Now I have a question. I have the chance to buy a Bigsby B3, but I don't know if it works on my guitar. I have an email from Bigsby (and info from other people, including Gemberbier) that the one I should use is the B7, but I would like to know first if the B3 works because I could buy it a lot cheaper (like 20 dollars) and if I want a B7 I have to import it. that's all for now! thanks!   Talajuha Username: Talajuha Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 9:54 am:    Please, let the red beauty be as she is (+ pickguard) and buy an other guitar originally equiped with bigsby. Juha   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 10:45 am:    Yeah, for $465.- you have this brand new wine red ARIA TA-80TR. (719 euros in Europe). http://www.crossroads-music.org/catalog/aria_ta-80 tr_thinline_semi-acoustic_electric_guitar_3353047. htm With a WHITE PEARL pickguard. And you keep your vintage axe original. Ginger   Elear Username: Elear Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 3:02 pm:    lol relax, I think the Bigsby is a nice addition to the guitar. Gemberbier :p I never said that I NEED any guitar but with a white pickguard, I just said and idea about the guitar, I could buy 2 anyway xD but I'll buy the black one to keep the guitar close to the original (remember that before this post I didn't know how the guitar was) take care!

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