I've just been given a very battered Firebird copy by a company called CSL. I've found that they were a japanese company along the same lines as Ibanez.
The guitar looks like it came out of the 70's, is well battered with a solid mahogany body and a 1 piece solid mahogany neck. It has an angled headstock but no scarf joint. The previous owner(s) have botched it about a bit, the bridge pickup cavity has been free routed to accept a normal size humbucker and it looks like the inserts for the bridge have been moved. It could do with some fret attention (reshaping), but I'll give that to my luthier friend to do and have him set it up too, £30 well spent I think. A lot of the edges have had a bit of a battering.
Does anyone have any info about these guitars or the company as I'd like to learn more about it.
I think the guitar is absolutely lovely and the neck is just gorgeous. It may have had a bit of a hard life, but I'm going to leave it more or less exactly how it is and just play it in. From the feel of things then this is the guitar that will be my normal, sitting in the front room, playing axe (I'll leave my posh one nice and safe). Like usual though, I still have to get the pickups and hardware. Oh, once I've got the bridge, I'll measure up and see what the hell someone shimmed the neck pocket with cork for.
Cheers guys, any info will help and I'll post some pics when I can.
Kaj
