LOOK AT THIS!!!

[Mark Oskin (sonicthunder)]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2513018703&category=2384

[Jake Strauss (jake)]

the story's a little embellished.....sounds like some sorta big CIA thriller movie.  ive never played one of those basses though, but I know lots of companies did things like that in the 80's.  I have an ibanez musician guitar which actually isnt that bad but none of the japanese stuff i've played quite has the feel of the genuine article.

[Joey Wilson (bigredbass)]

Just a question I've always had running around in the back of my head. . . .  
 
Back when the Japanese were making clones of so many American guitars  (the lawsuit Ibanez guitars, etc.), why didn't they copy THESE as well:
 
1. The Budweiser(or Miller, PBR,etc.) Sign guitar
2. The Texas Map Guitar
3. The Gibson USA Map Guitar
4. The toilet-seat guitar
5. ANY GIBSON BASS
6. Fender Antigua Wildwood
7. The Aluminum Velenos, Kramers, Travis Beans
8. That gosh-awful, opposed double neck from that
   ad for the speed-metal training method
9. Rick Nielsen's quint-neck Hamer
10. A replica smashed Townshend SG or a lighter-
    fluid burnt Strat?  Yeah, that's it, a Tokai
    'Fine Life Happy Ladyland Trippy'!  I could  
    make a pile of ca$h at the Vintage Show !  
 
Just wondering . . .
 
 
 
 
 

[Joe Schwartz (the_schwartz)]

Just imagine the Feds raiding a music store and busting up all their toilet-seat knock-off guitars : )

[Michael Walker (rockandroller)]

TRIVIA:  i have seen a number of japanese EB-0, EB-3 (etc) copies... and even a RIPPER copy!

[Jake Strauss (jake)]

joey, i have no idea why they didn't copy all those but i just love how besides gibson and fender which are of course the two obvious companies to rip off, the third one that lots of them did [ibanez, fernandes, kawai, aria] was alembic which just shows you that they must rock if so many people copied them