Catalogs Collections: Greco, Fernandes/Burny, Ibanez, etc.

[Frankie_B]

Hello guys and gals, I wish you an HAPPY 2020 with a lot of beautiful MIJ guitars!!
Catalogs added in the last days are...

• 1 Daion
• 1 Fresher (couple pages of 81 cat.)
• 3 Guyatone
• 1 HS Anderson
• 4 Kawai

EDIT:

• 4 Casio
• 1 Pearl

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[Frankie_B]

Added 21 Teisco PDFs. First post updated with link.

 

[Frankie_B]

Added 8 Tokai catalogs, 1976 Electra brochure. Also, the 77 Electra catalog is complete now.
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[paruwi]

@Frankie_B

just in case you haven't already found it

Vintage Ibanez Guitar Catalogs - 1971 through 2007

Vintage Ibanez Guitar Catalogs - 1971 through 2007

s93105080.onlinehome.us

 

[Frankie_B]

Thank you paruwi,
I already have them on my website.

 

[paruwi]

Thank you paruwi,
I already have them on my website.

and another resource...

The World of Musical Instruments Brochures - from the '70s to the '90s - Scanned Catalogs of Guitars, Amps, Effects and Keyboards - Published in Japan

 

[Frankie_B]

Interesting Paruwi, I was looking for other Fender catalogs in the last days. There is 2 or 3 on this page that I don't have yet

 

[NECRON99]

If you find ARGUS please add that one, If I find I'll post link for you.

 

[Frankie_B]

NECRON99 I'll do it

 

[Frankie_B]

Hello,

I've added some catalogs at the database:

• Fender Japan + 6 catalogs for a total of 26.
• Aria and Aria Pro II + 11 for a total of 51.

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[Frankie_B]

Hi guys,

I hope you're all fine in this period.

I've added some acoustic guitar catalogs to the database:

• Aria +3
• Daion +1
• Morris +1
• Orville by Gibson +1
• Westone +1

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Stay safe!

 

[nigelthebald]

Nice work, Frankie - thank you!

 

[Frankie_B]

Hello,

thanks to member contributions, some catalogs were added:

- 1 Greco Zemaitis
- 1 ESP
- 2 Fujigen

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[Frankie_B]

Hi all,

Thanks to one more contribution, I added one K&T Pickups catalog. Jun Takano is the K&T Pickups' owner.

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[Frankie_B]

Hello guys,

Some catalogs added to the database these days!

- 4 Orville by Gibson (1993 and 1996 complete catalogs, 1992-1996 Brochure x2)
- 1 Tokai (1982 catalog vol. 6)

Thank you guys for your support and contributions for this project!!
Wish you all the best for 2021!

 

[Shelkonnery]

This project is great!! Thank you so much!
I've been looking for some info on my Fernandes for so many years!
Great stuff!!

 

[Frankie_B]

Hello, 2 catalogs added this week thanks to anew contribution:
- 1998 ESP, Navigator, Edwards catalog
- 2001 ESP, Navigator, Edwards catalog

 

[Frankie_B]

Hello, I recently added 5 catalogs. Thanks all for your precious contribution

- 1975 Ibanez Oldies catalog
- 1993 ESP - Navigator - Edwards catalog
- 1995 ESP - Navigator - Edwards catalog
- 2013 Bacchus Handmade Series Woodline DX Catalog
- 2013 Momose Custom Craft Guitars Catalog

Enjoy!

 

[Frankie_B]

Hello, the website is moving to a new domain name. Exit .com.br and welcome .com
I updated (and tested) all the links in the first post of this thread with the list of all brand.
Don't forget to bookmark the new domain name https://vintagejapanguitars.com
Thanks !

 

[MilfordCubicle]

Hello everyone,
I would like to share a link to my site where I gather catalogs of Japanese brands. Of course, there are catalogs elsewhere but the goal is to bring them together on one site to facilitate searches, make it accessible for free, avoid visiting sites with malware, etc.
I hope it will be useful to everyone.

All catalogs by brand https://vintagejapanguitars.com/japanese-guitar-catalogues/

Or direct links:
Aria - Aria Pro II catalogs - 54 PDFs
Casio catalogs - 4 PDFs
Cool Z catalogs - 7 PDFs
Cougar catalogs - 1 PDF
Daion catalogs - 2 PDF
Deviser catalogs (Bacchus, Brian, Headway, Seventy-Seven, STR) - 50 PDFs
Electra catalogs - 7 PDFs
Epiphone catalogs - 3 PDFs
ESP - Edwards - Navigator catalogs - 59 PDFs
Fantom catalogs - 1 PDF
Fender Japan catalogs - 26 PDFs
Fernandes catalogs - 58 PDFs
FGN Japan - Fujigen catalogs - 8 PDFs
Fresher catalogs - 2 PDF
GR Guitar Synthesizer catalogs - 1 PDF
Greco catalogs - 110 PDFs
Guyatone catalogs - 8 PDFs
Heerby catalogs - 2 PDFs
History catalogs - 16 PDF
HS Anderson catalogs - 2 PDF
Ibanez - Cimar catalogs - 308 PDFs
Jackson - Charvel catalogs - 59 PDFs
Kasuga catalogs - 1 PDF
Kawai Catalogs - 9 PDF
Kramer catalogs - 34 PDFs
K&T Pickups (Jun Takano) - 1 PDF
Maxon (effects) catalogs - 4 PDFs
Moon Catalogs - 1 PDF
Morris catalogs - 11 PDFs
Orville by Gibson catalogs - 13 PDFs
Pearl catalogs - 1 PDF
Quest Catalogs - 1 PDF
Suzuki catalogs - 5 PDFs
Teisco catalogs - 21 PDFs
Tokai catalogs - 48 PDFs
Vantage catalogs - 2 PDFs
Westminster catalogs - 1 PDF
Westone catalogs - 37 PDFs
Yamaha catalogs - 49 PDFs

PS: I will update this thread with news about the project.

All these catalogs are great! What a collection!
Do you know offhand where I might find a higher resolution PDF; I'm specifically looking at the 1987 Fernandes catalogs. It's very difficult to read the text on those pages.