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Statistics: Posted by Gary — Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:35 pm
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Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:19 am
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Would I be right in thinking the tuners have a Gotoh logo? Bridges on MIJ LP copies are often printed on the bottom, either Made in Japan, the component type or both.
Pickups, pots, hardware & sometimes even wiring all offer clues - but your guitar is Japanese, mid/late 70s, absolutely no doubt about it.
For what it's worth, if that Como-brand LP has an MIJ neckplate, it's off a different guitar - that one's Korean, these exact same guitars come up with the Hondo brand quite often. The clues are all over the headstock & neck.
Jon.
Statistics: Posted by Bassassin — Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:59 am
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The USA made solid bodies have quite a distinctive body design.
This is one of the later USA made guitars that supposedly have Japanese made pickups and hardware.
I have to throw this one in just because it's so cool!
Statistics: Posted by Spud1950 — Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:11 pm
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Pull off the control panel and check out the pots... also, the back of one of the pickups might have a stamp on it.
These guitars don't necessarily always have a MIJ stamp on them... often a sticker was used (especially if its MIK), which should have fallen away by now.
I can tell your for fact, though, that Premier never made a direct LP clone while building guitars in the US. The closest their US operations (United Guitars) ever got to something resembling a Les Paul was the Bantam... and that could NEVER be confused for a Les Paul.
Statistics: Posted by Michael Ambrose — Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:01 am
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I have came across a ton of similar guitars with brands names from El desa, conco and so on!
Thanks again for all the input so far .
Statistics: Posted by johnwconn22 — Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:47 am
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Undoubtely Japanese made... no LP clones appear in any Premier literature until 1976... They called this model The Adventurer PG-370 O/F.
Statistics: Posted by Michael Ambrose — Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:18 pm
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Would it be possible to get a clearer photo of the headstock? With all the shadow, it is difficult to make out the profile of the head.
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:58 pm
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I am trying to figure out if my guitar was made in New York or is an Japanese copy.
I posted my guitar on http://www.guitar-museum.com/guitar-56925-Vanilla-Sky so you can check it out. If you have any information please feel me in. I am wondering if this is a very rare guitar and would like to find a brochure on my guitar if there is one.
Statistics: Posted by johnwconn22 — Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:45 pm
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