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floyd rose bought out their competition, as i recall.īut nearly any guitar manufacturer knows how to make a semi decent vibrato nowadays. Kah ler had a good one then, so did some others. then they started to design better tremeloes for the folks that wanted to do major dive bombs without it going out of tune. no serious guitar player.įunny how a few years later they became popular again. at the time I recall people always said you had to have a real gibson or a real strat, and that vibrato bars were for basicly, idiots. I used to abuse the strings terribley with major tremelo use.
It would stay in tune better with 10s than 9's, and with ernie ball, or adarios. the bigsby spring needed to break in a bit to stabilize, and new strings helped. It didnt stay in tune well when it was new, but the strings that came on it were the original old strings. mine had a few scratches on the back and on the back of the neck, but was ok. old stock, but new, so they decided to sell them off, cheap. it was one of a few older guitars they had forgotten about in their warehouse. I got mine there for $133, but that was about 10 years later. They also has les paul copies by Crestline there, they had one with one of those yellowish red sunburst finishes, about $289 if i recall. In the mid to late 70's, the music store i used to get lessons at carried Gibson, Fender, Baldwin, Conn, Yamaha(accosutics only), and Crestline.Ī new Crestline SG with the bigsby style tremelo was a little over $300 (US dollars). the Crestline SG was my first solidbody electric that i bought for myself. I wrote a review about my Crestline SG at Harmony Central's site. One model reviewed at a vintage guitar show was based on Gibson´s Les Paul design, and had Grover tuners, 2 Japanese covered humbuckers, and decent wood.
Considering the amount of instruments available, the Crestline trademark was probably used on guitars built by one of the bigger Japanese guitar producers and rebranded for the U.S. Crestline offered a wide range of stringed instruments, including classical, folk, dreadnought, and 12-string acoustics solid body electric guitars and basses amplifiers banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles. These entry level to intermediate solid body guitars featured designs based on classic American favorites. Distributed by the Grossman Music Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio. Instruments previously built in Japan circa mid to late 1970s. it's not nice to knock someone else guitar, especially if they like it. : Does anyone know who manufactured crestline guitars? Wish I had her back!! Moral of the story? Don't knock it till you try it. I would love to find another one today, because regrettably, I pawned this one in Florida to buy a plane ticket home. The headstock was identical to the Les Paul open book style and this guitar, had it not said Crestline on the headstock was indistinguishable from the real thing.ultimately Gibson began a campaign of suing any foreign manufacturer of copy guitars because of the quality of this very guitar. This particular guitar was a copy of a Les Paul Custom cherry burst, with gold trim. The tone and the electronics were indistinguishable from a Gibson. This guitar had a set neck that was absolutely perfect, it had a nice thick heavy body with the beautiful contoured top, the bindings were perfect, the finish was beautiful,the fretboard was perfect, the action was fantastic. In the late seventies when Crestline was still in business in Japan, I happen to own a Les Paul. If you sign a recording contract or win the lotto, buy a real one!Īfter reading through these old posts, it's interesting to me some of the negative comments made about these om people who never owned one. The bottom line is if you like the way it plays and sounds, buy it. Considering what crap is out there now, The Crestline strat copy was and is a hell of a deal! Check the prices on ebay! 250 to 550 is the norm and you could buy one new back in the day for 125.00 dollars. I own one that I picked up at a flea market for less than 100.00 dollars. The hardware and wood came from the same suppliers the "big boys" used as well. Most electronics were imported to Japan from the same American companies Gibson and Fender used. You don't see many anymore and true some were better then others but if you can find one it will be the best strat knockoff for the money that is out there. Hate to disagree with you but Crestline stopped producing the strat copy after being sued by Fender not because it was crap but because people were buying them in the 70's and cutting in to their (Fender) bottom line. A few were decent enough to play and would half way stay in tune.". Most of the guitars were very low end with low quality materials and workmanship. They specialized in copies of famous models by a variety of companies. "crestline was a japanese manufacturer in the late 70s early 80s.
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