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Pdangel1
Username: Pdangel1
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 10:25 am: | |
I've just purchased an ARTIST that I think is an AR100? It's black with cream binding. It has no serial number anywhere. It has the smaller headstock with MOP inlay. The pick-ups are low-end GOTOHS. The tuners have nothing on them but they look like GOTOHS? Finally, the bridge is a Gibralter 2 (says made in Japan), but it just feels like a Korean guitar. Does anybody know exactly what this is or have a catalog scan? I can send pics via e-mail if it helps?
Thanks. |
Pdangel1
Username: Pdangel1
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 10:30 am: | |
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7302144127&ssPageName=ST RK:MEWN:IT |
Ibanezfreak1960
Username: Ibanezfreak1960
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 12:34 pm: | |
Looks like a nice MIJ to me but without a serial number who knows.
He has a few more Ibanez vintage peices for sale 2 CN's one with half vine and also a neck throuh AR.
Can you email me some close ups of the headstock front and rear and also the bridge and taipiece for further examination? |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 02-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 12:55 pm: | |
Pdangel1:
I don't think there's any easy answer to this one. The seller is a long-time member of this Discussion Board. If he couldn't come up with the answer then it's doubtful we'll find anything new to add.
That headstock shape was used between 1987 and 1996. That's the best we can say about the timeframe that this guitar was made.
One reason for the continued mystery is that the Artist solidbodies don't appear in the '87-'89 catalogs ('87 catalogs are pretty much non-existant). They reappear in the '90 & '91 catalogs, but only the AR200 and AR300 models. Both have block inlays.
The ARs disappear again from '92 through '97. When they resurface, in the '98 catalog, they have the older, "wider" headstock shape. But just because a specific guitar model doesn't show in the catalogs doesn't mean much.
Why the guitar doesn't have a serial number on the headstock is a bigger mystery than the timeframe it was made. Why the tuners don't say Ibanez just adds to the mysterious factor of this specific axe.
Besides asking the Captain, I'd post this message in Jim Donahue's section. |
Pdangel1
Username: Pdangel1
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 3:43 pm: | |
Thanks for the info. I'll try Jim D. too.
I like the axe either way, it would just be nice to know exactly what it is. The 1991 Japan catalog shows an AR100 with dot inlays. I'm guessing it's that, but the seller suggested it was a 1997? |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 02-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 4:00 pm: | |
Pdangel:
Do you have a link to the '91 Japanese catalog so I can see? |
Pdangel1
Username: Pdangel1
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 5:38 pm: | |
here's the link from Jem site:
http://www.jemsite.com/dl/ibzcat/1991jpn/ |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 02-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 9:43 pm: | |
Pdangel1:
Thanks for the link.
Well that looks like your guitar to me. I'd say the mystery is solved. |
Bluepill
Username: Bluepill
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 12:40 am: | |
anyone in australia got an ar200 or ar300 from 90/91???
next question...want to sell it?
damn ive been posting this for about a year now!!! |
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