Author Topic: Vandenburg (Read 5779 times)

Fubar · « **Reply #15 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:28:53 PM »

I got given an A10 Reissue for my eighteenth birthday, is a lot of fun to play and sounds beautiful. As with all my guitars from that period, it is now completely plastered with stickers and a bit battered around the edges, is still one of my favourite guitars tho even tho it has a floyd which I normally hate!

Philly Q · « **Reply #16 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:42:57 PM »

Those Washburns remind me of the days when I was buying my first "proper" guitar, around 1981-82. There were loads of Japanese guitars on the market then. I wanted a Junior-style double-cutaway, and I was looking at the Aria Cardinal series, Ibanez Artists and the Washburn Wing series. They were nice little guitars. But I ended up buying American - my much-abused Hamer Special.

Fubar · « **Reply #17 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:52:30 PM »

Quote from: Philly Q

Those Washburns remind me of the days when I was buying my first "proper" guitar, around 1981-82. There were loads of Japanese guitars on the market then. I wanted a Junior-style double-cutaway, and I was looking at the Aria Cardinal series, Ibanez Artists and the Washburn Wing series. They were nice little guitars. But I ended up buying American - my much-abused Hamer Special.

It is kinda odd how people's opinions of Japanese guitars have changed, when I first got into guitars in the late eighties the overwhelming opinion seemed to be "just don't buy any of that jap shitee!" (a direct quote from my music teacher!). Nowadays people can't seem to get enough of them. :lol:

Philly Q · « **Reply #18 on:** December 03, 2006, 04:08:38 PM »

At that point in the early 80s Japanese guitars were just coming out of that "copies" stage, there were lots of original designs and good ones too. Then, for better or worse, just after that the superstrat thing took off and everyone started building variations of the same thing - HSS, locking trem, pointy headstock, yadda yadda.

I suppose there was still snobbery about Japanese guitars, although everyone I knew had them. I just happened to get a good deal on the Hamer, I'd have been very happy buying Japanese otherwise.

Thinking about it, even at the start of the Superstrat Epoch they were all using American guitars, Jacksons and Kramers. Then Jems/RGs came along and Japanese guitars were taken seriously. Then we all started getting snooty about Korean guitars. :roll: