Pre-Lawsuit Ibanez 2375 ASH Stratocaster (Baz Studios)

Thought you might like to hear this guitar with it's USA Texas Special Custom Shop pickups with a 3 way switch. The 3 way switch is the only original electronic part on this early '70s Japanese made Stratocaster copy.

Here's the real deal on Pre-Lawsuit Ibanez Guitars.The videos points out subtle things that make these guitars unique to the Hoshino Gakki Gen manufacturer. The Models shown are a 2375ASH Stratocaster, a 2352 Telecaster, and a 2392 Les Paul.
In 1954, Mr. Rosenbloom decided to start a guitar manufacturing business to solve his inventory problem. He formed a new company called Elger Guitars, named for his children Ellen and Gerson. He brought in a German master violin maker named Karl Muller. Karl and his brother, Georg, led a small team of craftsman who designed and built the Elger Guitars in a workshop in nearby Ardmore, Pennsylvania. They continued to hand-build exceptional quality instruments until about 1964.
In 1964/65 Mr. Rosenbloom, in a stroke of remarkable insight, become the exclusive North American distributors for the Hoshino Gakki Gen Company, a Japanese instrument manufacturer. Hoshino had just bought a small Spanish guitar company named Ibanez and would use this as their product name. The Ibanez line of the 1970's was then born.
In 1971, Hoshino bought Elger Guitars, regaining the North American distribution rights, and changed the name to "Ibanez USA". Hoshino did maintain Elger's Pennsylvania facilities to check incoming shipments and correct any flaws prior to shipping merchandise out to their dealers. It is also my understanding that the serial numbers were actually placed on the guitars in the USA when that practice started.
Ibanez discovered the way to success around 1970 when they started making copies of well-known American guitars like Gibson, Fender and Rickenbacker.
On June 28, 1977, Norlin, the parent company of Gibson, filed a lawsuit against Elger (Ibanez) in Philadelphia Federal District Court . The case was "Gibson Vs. Elger Co." with Gibson claiming trademark infringement based on the duplicate "open book" or "moustache" headstock design of the Ibanez copies. Allegedly Gibson had threatened to sue Elger/Ibanez for a long time regarding the use of the headstock which Norlin claimed as a Gibson trademark.
Ibanez made an out-of-court settlement with Norlin and agreed to stop copying the Gibson headstock and using similar names for their instruments
In February 1978 Ibanez officially stopped making copies and headed to the next level. They started cranking out their great original designs.
What's your favorite Pre-Lawsuit or Post-Lawsuit Ibanez model?

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[cuiqueiro]

Nice guitar.

There's something interesting going on in your video from 0.58 to about 2:00, the camera seems to follow automatically the guitar's movement. What type of camera is that? Thanks

[HouseholdSaint]

@cuiqueiro It's a samsung... I think it's the image stabalization system... It's actualy on a tripod...

[Vintoryez]

ГДЕ ДИСТОРШН??

[cuiqueiro]

@HouseholdSaint

Thanks for the info.

[HOOKAMONKY]

That thing looks and sounds GREAT!