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Looking on info on this bass.
- Thread starter LarryJA
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Ibanez didn't copy specific "year xxxx black/white P" models of US brands, but rather copied the parts and design and put together their own versions.
They carefully studied Fender etc instruments to learn how they really worked, what made them good, and how to produce them efficiently.
Parts were made using the best materials available, different colors/finishes were tried, block inlays or dots?, etc, for years. Mix stuff up--just try it.
Then their designers put stuff together that represented how things ought to be done according to Ibanez.
Never encountered an Ibanez copy that didn't differ on a detail or ten from what was coming out of Fender etc at the time.
They were working towards becoming a real, original guitar builder. They took logical baby steps to get there by learning from the masters.
But they almost never sold EXACT copies of anything specific.
More like "Precision basses have too fat of a neck for my hands. We should make them with something closer to the Jazz. How would it look with black blocks instead of white? I think it'll sound better if the pickup is a little closer to the bridge. What if we make bridges out of a different alloy? Will this pickup sound better with xxxx more windings? I like bigger knobs".
We saw all kinds of progress as they got closer to being exact during those early years, and more than a few steps back as Ibanez pursued dead ends.
Experimenting.
A few years later--Innovating.
You have an Ibanez Precision Bass copy.
That's all that can be said beyond finding Ibanez's model # in their old catalogs online.
Even then, details changed quickly and what made the catalog might have been changed after a month for one reason or another.
Nice bass!
They carefully studied Fender etc instruments to learn how they really worked, what made them good, and how to produce them efficiently.
Parts were made using the best materials available, different colors/finishes were tried, block inlays or dots?, etc, for years. Mix stuff up--just try it.
Then their designers put stuff together that represented how things ought to be done according to Ibanez.
Never encountered an Ibanez copy that didn't differ on a detail or ten from what was coming out of Fender etc at the time.
They were working towards becoming a real, original guitar builder. They took logical baby steps to get there by learning from the masters.
But they almost never sold EXACT copies of anything specific.
More like "Precision basses have too fat of a neck for my hands. We should make them with something closer to the Jazz. How would it look with black blocks instead of white? I think it'll sound better if the pickup is a little closer to the bridge. What if we make bridges out of a different alloy? Will this pickup sound better with xxxx more windings? I like bigger knobs".
We saw all kinds of progress as they got closer to being exact during those early years, and more than a few steps back as Ibanez pursued dead ends.
Experimenting.
A few years later--Innovating.
You have an Ibanez Precision Bass copy.
That's all that can be said beyond finding Ibanez's model # in their old catalogs online.
Even then, details changed quickly and what made the catalog might have been changed after a month for one reason or another.
Nice bass!
