Cobran FA-1 / Chushin Gakki??

[martysmith]

my wife bought me a nice Cobran FA-1 electric for Christmas, anyone familiar with them??? reminds me of my wonderful charvel 750xl....as soon as i figure out how, i'll post a pic...thanks for letting me on here !!! marty

[nhspike]

Don't know anything about Cobran, but welcome to the forum!

Please post pics, and of the 750XL also!

That's one of my dream guitars...

[martysmith]

will do, spike.....i still havent figured out how to pull pix up yet...my 750 is a blue /purplish one that you can barely see the flame through....string-thru, no whammy....i actually lucked into it, i bought a Yamaha Ty Tabor RGXtt model from Musicgoround in lilburn georgia, and when i got it , the truss rod was broken....when i shipped it back, they swapped me the 750 for it, they didnt know what model charvel it was, they thought it was a model 3..... believe it or not, it has become my main axe for country songs, when i am FORCED to play them....the 4th position on the switch sounds JUST like a strat quack, which is amazing since there are only 2 pickups.....
more later, marty

[nhspike]

Cool!
Maybe they are splitting the coils on one pickup in that 4th position?
My predators do something funky, and even add a filter/cap in there to get some really funky duck-tones with just two humbuckers (neck is single-coil sized, but still a humbucker).
You can do some cool stuff with switching/wiring.
Wish I knew more about it.

hehe

Can't wait for the pics!

Just post them to www.photobucket.com, then link to them here.

[martysmith]

still trying to figure out transferring from photobucket, i signed up and everything....i have 2 pix of the cobran in my computer, and it will be next week when i get home to Mississippi from virginia, that i'll take some shots of my 750xl....

[dg]

Upload the pics to your photobucket account, then below each pic there is a set of links you can copy. Copy the one that says "direct link". When you post a reply here on the forum, at the top of the post box there is an icon that looks like mountains. Click on it, then paste the link to your pic into the box that pops up.

[Ben...]

still trying to figure out transferring from photobucket, i signed up and everything....i have 2 pix of the cobran in my computer, and it will be next week when i get home to Mississippi from virginia, that i'll take some shots of my 750xl....

Do you have the pics on Photobucket? If you do, just post the links and I can make the images appear or I can tell you how.

It takes a while to figure out. There's a little button at the top of the box that you type your post in. The button is yellow and it has mountains on it. You click that and another box comes up. You put the link in that box and hit "OK". The image then should appear in your post.

Sorry if that doesn't make sense. Just ask any questions and we'll help you get it figured out.

Edit: DG beat me to it. Maybe my post will help a bit. Good luck!

[Jack The Riffer]

Photobucket also has the links already in the IMG tags. just copy and paste that one into the reply box and your pic will show up in the post

[martysmith]

still trying

[martysmith]

[martysmith]

ah HA...finally....i'll take some pix of my 750 when i get home...

[martysmith]

i had read in a review on harmony central that Cobran was made in the Chusin Gakki factory...if this is the case, then it very well might be the sister guitar to all the good Japanese Charvels.....

[mattdoubleyou]

Thats one helluva nice axe bro!!! Where did she snag that from and how does it play?

[nhspike]

That looks killer!

[martysmith]

it was on ebay....for a long time, and when she asked what i wanted for christmas, i told her....it plays like butter, no set up or anything required....the only thing im changing are the 2 single coils, theyre pretty noisy and i use a good many high noise effects...fuzz factory, etc....so im putting some of the new gfs noiseless pu's in it when i get home monday....still out in amish country in virginia.....and i dread that 14 hour drive... later, going to some pawnshops to look for treasure....