World Musical Instruments - Who Do They Build For?

[guitardudeluke]

chapman guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhAzVo6mX8

day 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fctC_jrHK8s

enjoy :0

[Schadenfreude]

Would love to see a picture of the back of that headstock.

I was so WRONG in what I wrote. It's not Samick, it's Cort that made the Korean Ibanez guitars. Every one I've seen has a serial number like this:

So, i just found an Ibanez with the same serial format the previous poster mentioned. Says Made in Korea with a serial starting with the W prefix. The guitar is an Ibanez Iceman X series, Lepard in your opinion would this be WMI?

[xenophobe]

Add Strandberg and Ormsby to the list of brands that WMI produces.

[lepard]

So, i just found an Ibanez with the same serial format the previous poster mentioned. Says Made in Korea with a serial starting with the W prefix. The guitar is an Ibanez Iceman X series, Lepard in your opinion would this be WMI?

Now that's a weird one ! I have never seen a Korean Ibanez with a W serial number. That may very well be a WMI guitar.

[Schadenfreude]

Here`s some further info, dont know if it helps (or even if its accurate),

"The Ibanez X-series is a series of extremely shaped electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki. It was first introduced in 1983 with Destroyer and Rocket Roll series. In 1987 X-series was closed and then reintroduced in 2007 with Xiphos series. X-series embodies following series:

• Destroyer series
• Rocket Roll series
• Xiphos series
• Arondite series
• Halberd series
• Glaive series
• Falchion series
• Iceman series (only since 2007, older Icemans was not in X-series)
• Fireman series

Apparently they sold for only $250 new but looking at reviews people where impressed by them.
Doing a search on Evil-bay for Ibanez Iceman brings up 2 or 3 more, all with a W prefix

Full specs here, nothing to write home about, it seems its a `mini` iceman, smaller body and missing the hook on the lower horn. For a hundred bucks it could be worth a punt.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--IBAICX120BK

[spencer4hire]

Did some Ibanez come out of WMI?

Yes the Ibanez SZ models were built by them.