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  • August 30, 2009 at 3:32 am #78879
    Mr.Grim
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    well now…i was looking for a new guitar at a great deal on Ebay.
    and i did, unfortunately i have no idea what it is….lol

    i got it for $200 !!! despite me not ever seeing one before let alone playing one i took a gamble on what looked like good quality. and man do i love it!

    i cant find any info on line about it anywhere ether, all i found was two people with the same identity problem. one person had the same guitar but with stock pickups and the other was stock with gold hardware instead of frosted silver like mine.

    its neck thru with natural oil finish
    24 fret (virtually no wear!)
    “marvel” pickups were replaced with EMG 60 active pickups
    pearl inlay logo “cm” and “marvel” ( no other id, serial # or made in….)
    body shape looks like a Warwick bass
    and a Licenced Floyd Rose (speedloader/single locking)

    all i did to it was replace all electronics (i do it to all 2nd hand guitars i get) and added a 4 position active overdrive rotary switch in the 3rd position in replace of the 2nd tone)

    and it looks and plays like a dream!! so versatile! i can get heavy metal to jazz to the dreamiest clean tones out of it.

    so then……does anyone have any info on its origins???

    August 30, 2009 at 12:16 pm #101040
    BlueSteel
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    i have no idea what it is, but it looks awesome :)

    August 31, 2009 at 4:06 am #101050
    julian
    Moderator

    don’t know much about that guitar, but I love thru-necks.

    If I got that, I’d rip the pickups out- and either:

    1. Put tele neck pickups in the neck and middle positions, and a wide range in the bridge. Then get cream silver and black hat knobs (think Fender Blender)
    2. Put cream colored single coils in the neck and middle, and a cream colored p-90 or humbucker in the bridge. Gold LP style knobs or cream hat knobs.

    I’m not a big fan of the floyd rose, but I’d have to keep it, since it’s a thru neck you don’t really want to mess with the bridge

    August 31, 2009 at 4:27 am #101052
    devnulljp
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    Instruments previously produced in New York during the 1950s and 1960s. Later models manufactured in Japan.
    Strad-O-Lin was a brand name of the Peter Sorkin Music Company. A number of solid body guitars were built at the Multivox company of New York, and distribution of those and the later Japanese built models were handled by the Sorkin company of New York City, New York. Other guitars built and distributed (possibly as rebrands) were Royce, Premier, Belltone, and Marvel.”

    It’s a 70s or 80s probably MIJ.

    There’s a catalogue here, but it’s PPV: http://www.vintaxe.com/catalogs_american_marvel.htm

    This guy has one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31525059@N03

    I just went over to vintaxe, but the forum seems to be gone?

    August 31, 2009 at 1:52 pm #101057
    Mr.Grim
    Member

    those are sum interesting suggestions Julian, and i agree about the Floyd Rose, but i actually have no probs with this one seeing that its only a single locking not double, and i had a trem stop installed in the rear cavity that keeps it in tune, it never goes out of tune. i usually prefer tunomatic bridge and stop bar, like a Les Paul setup.

    and Devnulljp, i also found that website but you need to be a member to see any useful info, i just haven’t gotten around to it yet, plus i wasn’t sure if this could be the same as they’re speaking of because it just seems a lot newer than the 80’s, and the fellow with the same guitar with gold hardware is the same person i mentioned in the original post.

    August 31, 2009 at 9:27 pm #101069
    julian
    Moderator

    With floyd roses, I just think they are big, clunky, and ugly. They can work fine though. I also don’t like the lack of a third bridge, though admittedly I haven’t been doing many behind the bridge bends lately.

    September 1, 2009 at 4:40 pm #101080
    TheCapitalJ
    Member

    i like them

    September 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm #101488
    Mike VD
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    Looks kind of like an Alembic

    June 10, 2012 at 1:39 pm #117731
    Neilcody
    Member

    At first glance, I thought it to be one of Michael Tobias’s guitars, but the “T” wasn’t on the headstock. Gibson screwed him out of using his own name on instruments. Now he uses MTD. He put a brass nut in my ’77 LP custom back in the 80’s and did some fretwork 4 me when he had a shop in Orlando many years back.
    Nice looking instrument.
    Peace
    Neilcody

    May 20, 2013 at 6:31 am #119067
    JACSTRAT
    Member

    From the photos it looks like a pretty nice electric. Even if it is older it has a modern sleek design to it that works for me. How does it play and, what is the tone like? I hope it plays and sounds as cool as it looks.

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