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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:21 pm
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Open the neck by using a screwdriver and look at the date on the back
...Wait is it really a fender guitars with Certificate of Authinticity?It should say the year it was made and does it look old and does the neck wold old.

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OK I had to go to that cork sniffing forum where unless you mention vintage or burst they dont reply.lol

It is a early Fugi Gen Gakki made guitar. They then gave me a Wikipedia link that states Fug Gen does OEM guitar guitar manufacturing for well known guitar brands and also make there own brands like Heartfield and FGN.

Fugi Gen started production in 1960 and in 62 started producing guitars. In the 70s they started producing guitars (OEM) for companies such as Ibanez, Greco and Yamaha. In 77/78 they went into a joint venture with Roland to produce Guitar Synthesizers. In 81 they obtained a CNC router for making guitar parts and also started to produce there own pickups.

In 1981/82 they obtained the Fender Japan contract which lasted until 1997. In 1983 they were producing 14,000 guitars a month with 80% of the guitars being made for export and 20% for the Japan market.

In 1992 they obtained a part of the Gibson contract which ended in 98 and from then on have made Epiphone Japan guitars some Gretsch models and there own FGN.

Wow that was some history lesson . The guy hooked me to an old link from there site which was basicly what happened here and there was a picture of another old one and the commented on the cool pups. They also could not find it at first and told me it was pulled then found it. No one said nothing about the case though.

I really dont like to go there unless I have to because you can write a whole thread and not have one guy answer as they are all high brow high end collectors. Just to show you the mind set I wrote a thread on there that was one of the most answered as usually you get one to three guys the most and this got over twenty. But I had put up "What do you think will be the vintage axes of tomorrow" and the first reply I got was WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR TIPS. So you guys can understand what I mean.


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Lots of useful info, Straycat... Japan in the '60s must have been an interesting place (as it is now, of course), with all those space-age guitars and effects being cranked out for what must have seemed a largely inexplicable market.

Looks like nobody bid on this particular guitar, though, so if I were the seller I'd be inclined to take a trip into Melbourne to Music Swop Shop or similar and put it on consignment. It needs to be somewhere frequented by people who are feeling open to a little weirdness in their lives... maybe whoever it is who has the Shin-ei fuzz wah they have in stock on "hold" could use it... heh


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... maybe whoever it is who has the Shin-ei fuzz wah they have in stock on "hold" could use it... heh


Ha! Now I'm looking forward to seeing this guitar crop up in a future "herd" picture of Mr Mondo's... :D

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Sadly, my acquisitions must all be of such a size that I can conveniently draw a veil over their provenance... "Oh, that? I've had it for years, remember how I used to work in that guitar shop? Look how old it is... it's a piece of junk but I'm amused by its presumption..."

The Melbourne scene seems more thriving than that of Sydney, at least as far as experimental indie types go. That shop appears to be quite a good one for unusual items, but it'd be like driving from Land's End to John O'Groats for me to get there...


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"...Look how old it is... it's a piece of junk but I'm amused by its presumption..."

Hehehe! :lol: See, this is why I enjoy reading your posts, Mondo.

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That shop appears to be quite a good one for unusual items, but it'd be like driving from Land's End to John O'Groats for me to get there...

Bill Bryson (who I like very much) jokingly scoffed about my country's smallness compared to his (or yours) bigness. Laughing at how Britons endlessly discuss how long it took to get somewhere he said, "Americans would think nothing of driving from Land's End to John O'Groats for pizza..."

All of which I must say in my experience is completely true! :lol:

And just to ramble (because I suspect the OP is long gone), one of my favorite remarks of Bryson's concerns Australia. On the deadliness of nature in that land he said; "Australia contains nine out of the world's ten most poisonous animals. Or to put it another way, Australia contains nine out of the world's nine most poisonous animals..."

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mondo500 wrote:
Sadly, my acquisitions must all be of such a size that I can conveniently draw a veil over their provenance... "Oh, that? I've had it for years, remember how I used to work in that guitar shop? Look how old it is... it's a piece of junk but I'm amused by its presumption..."

The Melbourne scene seems more thriving than that of Sydney, at least as far as experimental indie types go. That shop appears to be quite a good one for unusual items, but it'd be like driving from Land's End to John O'Groats for me to get there...


C'mon Mondo, Melbourne to Sydney isn't that bad is it? I once sold a part for a car to a guy from sydney. He left before dawn, arrived at my house at 5pm complaining about the Melbourne traffic, paid me 50 bucks for the part, then got back in his car and drove back to sydney! I've often seen cheap guitars and amps (in sydney) on ebay and been tempted. But then common sense kinda kicks in...

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Ha... classic. Maybe if I had fewer children cluttering the place up I'd be up for a quick blat, but I seldom get more than an hour away from the house these days. I do like Melbourne. I had a friend from there who couldn't get over our arcane road markings when he first came to Sydney. Perhaps if there were more of those in Melbourne, Sydneysiders wouldn't keep running into trams when they try to drive down there!

I like the fact that your guy from Sydney drove all that way for what one assumes was an optional car part... that'd be what, $200 for petrol? I've no idea; I'd take a plane.


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Hi folks, thanks for the comments.
It's taken me a while but I did what you guys suggested and dropped it off down to the swopshop in Melbourne.

http://www.musicswopshop.com.au/stock?s ... SS%2029868

These guys can give you more information on it than.


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Hi folks, thanks for the comments.
It's taken me a while but


This has to be the post of the month! Good luck with the sale. It's even more vintage now than when you started this thread! :)

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Wow great thread revival!

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C'mon Mondo, Melbourne to Sydney isn't that bad is it? I once sold a part for a car to a guy from sydney. He left before dawn, arrived at my house at 5pm complaining about the Melbourne traffic, paid me 50 bucks for the part, then got back in his car and drove back to sydney! I've often seen cheap guitars and amps (in sydney) on ebay and been tempted. But then common sense kinda kicks in...

Cheers.


When I was in Melbourne in Nov '11 for the Presidents Cup, our port of entry/departure was Sydney (SYD) and we took a Quantas shuttle on to Melbourne. The thing was packed with business people and the fare was really cheap... ± $100AUD IIRC. Plus it was basically a Roller-Coaster ride, 50 min. IIRC. Similar to a flight to Chicago from here - MSP.

That's certainly got to be competitive with the cost of Petrol & Time.

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Looks like a Broadway from early to mid '60s
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Wasn't this whole thread encapsulated into one of the sequels to Back To The Future?

It takes a guy FOUR YEARS to respond to his own thread..? :shock:

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