Originally Posted by: zreynoldspEven then, it's two different situations. Ibanez way back did make very close copies to Gibson and Fender guitars - as did (and many still do) most manufacturers. [U]BUT[/U] they always said 'Ibanez' on the headstock, and didn't pretend to be Gibsons etc.
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That sounds like a pretty reasonable argument, and I agree, the article I talked about said that sometimes the Ibanez "counterfits" matched the quality of the real deal, that gives the story another perspective wich to be honest I didn't notice before, in the end, Ibanez argued that the situation was some sort of "tribute" to the original models.

:rolleyes: mmmm, a tribute series... sounds like a nice idea sort of what happened with washburn when they signed with Dimebag and replicated his Dean (and never built a nice looking guitar again... damn they had such good looking axes and now they are just awful).