British based guitar brand, used to make guitars at Epiphone's factory in Korea, vanished off the face of the Earth so presumably went bust?
My old local guitar shop used to stock them and I tried several, all always good. Then I quit playing for a few years, and despite it seems launching their own "shape" they stopped trading.
I have two actually pretty damn decent guitars they made, a fat tele in blue with a rather striking pickguard and a les paul with a bright full colour union jack on it, both also seem fairly rare. Very traditional designs, both are heavy (the les paul exceptionally so).
Does anyone else have any kicking around? Does anyone know the full story?
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this lead to reduced quality poor hardware cheap bendy Chinese maple necks all those early issues. In the meantime squire and others upped their game.
so the inevitable slide from grace and demise. My local shop sold lots as there budget brand back in the day.
happy to be corrected but mostly a little information and me summarising the way these things go.
I also bought one of their earlier LP copies, a one of four prototype in white pearloid.
I'm hoping to get one of their 335 copies at some point.
I believe they ended up selling the company to some Canadian guys, but I've seen some very cheap, made in China acoustics that I'm not sure have anything to do with the original outfit.
I said maybe.....
Nice guitar, although up for sale soon to cover GAS elsewhere.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/strumstrum/IMGP2383_zpstaqprjmv.jpg
They were a brand I liked.
Also I didn't think they were that budget-priced either - £400 for PRS-alike when Vintage etc could do it for £200.
not my scene at all but i bet they sold a heap with that marketing shtick.
Say hi to Paul for me when you see them - I was one of his first customers when he started up in Dorchester (he used to have the small shop in the top corner), not an Indie though.