Greco 1978 Alembic Strat Stratocaster Destroyer MIJ

[jazzyvee]

Someone selling an Alembic Strat on UK Ebay?
Didnt know alembic made strats.
 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200048990757&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1
 
(Message edited by jazzyvee on November 21, 2006)

[jahnahisti]

Hi Jazzyvee,
This has nothing to do w/ Alembic except the style. These were discussed on another forum.  Here is the excerpt from ibanezcollectors.com:
The question was whether or not Ibanez sold guitars under other names.
 
Greco was sold by Kanda Shokai, a domestic distributor that was known as the ?Ibanez of Japan? if you can believe that. Cimar made some of our less complicated Fender copies. We sold some lower-end instruments with their name on them for a while. Starfield was a new brand launched by Hoshino with slightly different specs that could be sold to non-Ibanez dealers. (Starfield is ?Hoshino? roughly translated into English.)
 
(Message edited by jahnahisti on November 21, 2006)

[adriaan]

I played a Cimar Jazz copy for most of my teen years, so it served to teach me most of what I know now. I was lucky that the previous owner had replaced the tuners with the same Schallers that Alembic uses - it should also have gotten a replacement for the two-part bridge, but that never happened.
 
It was definitely low-cost, but perfectly playable. Perhaps the lack of sustain led me to play busy lines, an affection I'm fighting to this day.
 
It's now hiding under a bed in my parents' house. I pick it up only to find that I'm spoiled rotten by my Alembics.

[jazzyvee]

Thanks for clearing that for me.
Now you mention it I had a Red Cimar guitar in my late teens. It was a Gibson Marauder copy.
I really rewired and butchered that guitar by changing pickups and adding loads of switches to put the pickups out of phase and series, parallel wiring between pickups. It was a good learning curve.
It sounded good too.
Jazzyvee