by Bassassin » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:45 pm 
			
			They're similar but not the same. Albusal, don't know where you got your info, it might well be pre '74 but it's nothing to do with Ibanez.
There isn't and never was an "Ibanez factory" - Ibanez is simply a brand name owned by Hoshino Gakki and used on a line of guitars they sell. They are made in a variety of factories, predominantly Cort in Korea at the moment, and in the 70s, Fujigen Gakki in Japan.
Your guitar might have been built in the same factory - Fujigen built all levels of instrument for a variety of different customers - but it's equally as likely to have been built in any of the dozens & dozens of factories building guitars in the 70s.
With a guitar like yours, really the only way to make an educated guess as to who made it, is to find an identical one with a known provenance & history - and unfortunately there really aren't many of them, as very few records were kept about Japanese guitar manufacture in the 70s.
Jon.
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