I have never heard of 'copies' of Westone guitars made in China.Ĭurrently, there is a company producing guitars in China, with the Westone name on them.
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the serial number would have been a sticker on the back of the headstock. it would have been manufactured in Korea. Louis Music Company, which took control over the brand when the Japanese company closed. this would have been made under the supervision of the american distributor for westone, St. There is no question that this guitar is a "real" Westone, if that is what you are concerned about.
In the guitar there is no "made in -", model, nor serial number A neck humbucker is IMHO not all that important and I actually prefer having a single coil in the neck myself.īe sure to check the neck (warping) and the bridge as replacement bridges for Westones are hard to come by.Īs for IDing the model, I'm not knowledgeable enough to help, sorry.Ĭan you assure me this original Westone from Korea? (I hope it won-t be the chinese one!) I have been playing for a while, mostly hard rock kind of stuff and to me it is important to have a humbucker in bridge position, like this guitar.
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This axe was made for hard rock - heavy metal and will give it to you full on. Personally, the guitar looks like a great buy and I wouldn't hesitate one second if it's in good working order. Chinese-made Westones are probably low quality guitars but this is not the case of Japanese or Korean ones. There is indeed a Westone brand made in China but it is not the same company, not affiliated in any way except by name, to the Westone's this site talks about. So, a Westone made in 90s is just pieces of wood with strings". After they were made in Korea, and later in China. I'm a bit afraid, because I have also written in a forum of my country (not specialized on Westone, but specialized on electric guitars) and a member who owns a Westone MIJ has told me "the good Westone guitars stop being manufacturated at the end of the 80s. Also if you have a luthier in your area usually a seller would not think it unreasonable to be asked to meet you there to have it looked over as well.Ĭan you get addition pictures posted here as well? Close ups of the pups, trem, headstock, back, neck join and tuning keys can help someone here in narrowing it down possibly.
Many of these "hybrid" instruments still had all the build components and characteristics of Mats guitars mostly because they are simply Mats built and sourced parts but just assembled elsewhere, much of then in Korea and some in the US of A at SLM's custom shop.ĭo you have a friend who has some playing experience or expertise? If so I would ask him (or her) to accompany you to look at it. It is difficult at times to put precise year of build on a late model as Westone (SLM) had to do quite abit of scrambling to continue manufacturing when Matsumoku suddenly closed. Just because MIJ seems to be all the rage lately does not = Korean is bad, especially for Westones. I have two MIK Westies and they are very fine guitars with excellent construction and both are top shelf players as well. Just because it is a late model Westone does NOT mean it is "worse".
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