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Anyone who could be arsed to manufacture a direct replacement block in steel or brass could make a small fortune. Then, of course, there would be a need for replacement baseplates to fixed the chewed up pivot knife edges. The thirty year old studs could be worn. Yadda, yadda.
Hence, this solution.
End result, a starter instrument or fun knockabout guitar for jam sessions.
Also if it matters, a friend of mine has just brought me the earlier version without the fish inlay - this is not Korean-made, but East German... really .
The body appears to be solid wood (possibly beech) not ply, but if anything it's even more lumpy than the Korean ones - the whole thing is quite 'Soviet' . The hardware is standard cheap-Strat, except that the pots are typical GDR ones with very small D-shafts. These are normally impossible to find knobs for - and one is missing - except that I seem to remember that Laney amps from the 90s used the same size pots with an adaptor sleeve to take standard 6.3mm splined knobs! I think I have some in my spares box.
This particular one is in a very odd finish, blue at one end of the body and white at the other, with a shaded transition - original as far as I can tell - a bit like some of the special 'art' Fenders Eric Clapton had in the 80s, but without as much style... I'm looking forward to making it playable!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
How many of you played yours through your Peavey Bandit?? - That too was never out of the chart...
I loved it. Because it was my first electric.
I used to play it straight into a sound city 30w tranny amp. Later on I had an arion metal master as a boost. Imagine how that sounded, as a beginner too.
But every other guitar I've owned has been better.
Making Music always semed to positively spotlight "popular" gear which was also advertised very heavily in it's pages...I'm sure there was no correlational link whatsoever...
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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I think all the Korean fish ones had a humbucker at the bridge.
Interestingly, those were also made in East Germany!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Model K32 - by Musima, allegedly.
Incidentally, hideous fish inlay aside, one thing I did like about some Marlin models was the neck - the profile was great (for me, anyway).
Other than that, I'm with most of the comments above - poor quality hardware*, blahblahblah.
*As an aside, even worse than the locking vibrato attached to Sidewinders, etc, was the hideous thing (optimistically branded "Accutune", IIRC) bolted to their State of the Art series. This model also made appearances on various other Korean budget affairs, particularly Hohner's ST (and infrequently, their L59-T) offerings.
Basically a shoddy Kahler Pro knock-off, made from an alloy which had all the tensile strength of fresh Play-Doh. Over time, either (or both) the spring anchors or the frame itself would deform, rendering it useless.
May I draw your attention to this example:
NB. This model is identical to the new example I acquired in 1985, in a trade against my (stunningly-well playing) Jedson Les Paul;
F*ck knows what I was thinking, but it remains an act of folly of unprecedentedly enormous proportions. Comparatively, the Marlin was shite in every aspect.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/