by Bassassin » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:21 am
Hi - Arlington, Texas will be the location of the importer/distributor of this range. It's a generic mid-80s Oriental SuperStrat - & I think we can be 99% sure it's Korean rather than Japanese.
It's a budget instrument - the ply body is clearly visible in the control & trem cavities - and by the 80s, economic pressure had largely moved budget guitar manufacture away from Japan, & into factories like Samick & Cort in Korea.
It might be worth doing a complete stripdown to examine hardware & electronic components for any kind of branding or country of manufacture - however this is very uncommon on Korean instruments - I've so far only occasionally found "dp" branded pots on some Korean guitars.
Jon.
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