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Alcivar
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:14 pm
by nmeisenh
Was curious if anyone knew much about the brand Alcivar? Seems to me to be another one of those mysterious MIJ brands. My guitarist has a beautiful Les Paul copy that he swears plays as well as his real one, which he bought for about 10 times the price, the only downside is the electronics have taken a bit of a dump after all these years.
Re: Alcivar
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:21 pm
by charles
Back in the 70's there were a ton of white label brands trying to capitalise on the poor era of management Gibson & Fender were experiencing. I would not be surprised is some of these Alcivar instruments and some El Degas instruments were built by the same people.
Seems that many of them are just different labels on instruments coming from the same handful of manufacturers in Japan or other parts of Asia. (in fact this is still happening today, different white label brands and manufacturers, but same basic idea)