About Wes Coleman Expertise I can answer any question regarding the repair, maintenance, and some alternate and exotic tunings. I can answer some questions regarding the history of your guitar, but not how much it will sell for. I can also answer questions regarding playing in various styles, and various influences. My influence include, Slash, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Malcolm Young, and Randy Rhoads.
Experience 5 year worth of customizing, repairing, and maintaining, and 10 years playing.
Education/Credentials Training under my uncle. He is an accomplished guitar tech.
Question Hello Wes,
I am interested in early pre-cats eyes acoustics.Found a mint F150 from 1974 and was blown away with it and set about finding another tatty one for messing around with.Eventually got one from Japan, this time a 1974 model.I am aware that tokai used the 'F' system to indicate the approx retail cost in Yen x1,000.Here is the rub-the 1973 F150 is a dead ringer for a Martin D28 and the 1974 F150 is a Martin 000-18. Can you throw any light on this?
Kind regards
Dave.
Answer Hey Dave,
Well, some guitars can strongly resemble others. Especially from this time period, when copyright laws were being ignored by imported guitars. There were many copies made of guitars that were virtually identical to others. A prime example of this is the Les Paul. There were many companies who pretty much took the measurements from an LP to make their guitars, thus providing the buyer with a much cheaper guitar, but one that was the same as the more expensive counterpart. The guitars you are talking about seem like they are just this. A copy of the Martins, but at a lower price.
I hope this has answered your question. If you still have questions, you can post a follow up and I'll be happy to answer any others you may have. Thanks for your question!
-Wes
