No, it's NOT an Ibanez Iceman, it's a Greco Mirage.Hoyer double florentine cutaway archtop beauty.Vintage & Rare Guitar of the Week: 1965 Koontz tri.© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year! I personally wouldn't want to spend more for a Korean-made TA, but a Japanese example would be worth forking out more for.ĮDIT: Sold for £186.89 which seems fair enough but is in the region of the upper limits of what you'd want to spend on a Korean-made Aria TA. I'd expect a guitar like this to sell for up to £200. This guitar is currently listed on eBay UK with bidding currently at £51. Didn't Washburn produce a similar "magma" finish? Whatever, it really is quite awful and doesn't do the guitar any favours. I'd quite forgotten about finishes like this.
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This particular Aria Pro II TA guitar (I'm not quite sure of the exact designation - the binding and gold hardware would imply that it isn't the basic bolt-on neck TA-40 model it's possibly a TA-60) is finished in a very dated 1980s "crackleburst". Anyway, this is the subject for a future blog post, one that I will return to later.
The Korean-made examples are very good guitars, but the Japanese Matsumoku-made Titan Artists definitely have the edge over them the differences are subtle, but I feel, important to the overall quality of the guitar. I have two, a 1990s Korean-made TA-40 with Welsh Dragon graphic, and an earlier 1980s Japanese Matsumoko-made TA-30 which is actually my main electric guitar. They are absolutely superb guitars, and are my own guitar of choice. As far as I am concerned, one of the best kept secrets in the guitar world is the Aria Pro II Titan Artist series from the 1980s and 1990s.
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