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Post subject: Help me identify my guitar
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:17 am
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Hi everyone,

I'm a guitarist from Vietnam.

I've bought an old guitar, but I can't identify it.
I have some pictures here, hope someone can help me, thanks a lot.
It looks like a jazzmaster but the location of the switches and the pickups look so rare.

It's the red one, the other is a Japanese Jazzmaster:
(The Fender logo at the headstock was faint)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 3811_n.jpg

Closer:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 1396_n.jpg


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Post subject: Re: Help me identify my guitar
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:34 am
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That resembles a "serviceman's Fender", popular during the Vietnam War era. Most were manufactured in the Philippines though some were made locally in the then RVN. While they generally conformed to the Fender paradigm there were often numerous detail differences as you've noticed. There was also a company in the PI named "Gabby" that made pseudo Fender amps named after various actual amp models. However they looked nothing like their genuine counterparts and the circuitry was not based on any of Leo Fender designs.

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Post subject: Re: Help me identify my guitar
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:09 pm
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+1 on the above


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