marlin guitars - anybody remember them?
Gary Grainger
I remember) but before that there were a couple of acoustics - I have
one which I got in 1973/74 new - MF 535, made in Japan. I remember
replacing the bridge pins with brass ones which made an instant
improvement to the sound. It is still my main acoustic, and has aged
very well indeed, both in looks and in tone too.even though it has had a
fair share of bumps and bruises. I had a Martin underbridge pickup
fitted in the 90s, which still sounds good today. Does anybody else have
one of these or remember them?
cheers
Gary
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Steve Cobham
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>marlin had some cheapish strat-style electrics (many of them were black,
>I remember) but before that there were a couple of acoustics - I have
>one which I got in 1973/74 new - MF 535, made in Japan. I remember
>replacing the bridge pins with brass ones which made an instant
>improvement to the sound. It is still my main acoustic, and has aged
>very well indeed, both in looks and in tone too.even though it has had a
>fair share of bumps and bruises. I had a Martin underbridge pickup
>fitted in the 90s, which still sounds good today. Does anybody else have
>one of these or remember them?
>cheers
I remember them being advertised in the excellent, free and now sadly
defunct music magazine "Making Music".
I have no experience of the acoustics.
However, I have a Marlin electric which a student brought to me, for a
reason which escapes me although it wasn't for a set up, some 5 or 6
years ago and then he never turned up again, didn't answer any phone
calls and seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth.
It's an active model in a dark sort of metallic pink with a locking
trem system.
I've never felt the need to plug it in and play it.
Steve.
Paul Creedy
maybe the local tip refused to take it, so he needed another way of
getting rid of it
P.
Steve Cobham
You may be right.
I've seen examples of these where the bridge mechanism was made of
such terribly soft metal that the whole assembly literally fell to
pieces under use.
Steve.
Gary Grainger
>
> I've never felt the need to plug it in and play it.
>
> Steve.
I don't blame you, I think the electrics were particularly horrible -
but I love my acoustic!
Gary
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and painted a Fender logo on instead! (I was about 8 years old)
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Matthew McGrattan
> I had a Marlin Slammer strat copy. I sanded off the logo on the headstock
> and painted a Fender logo on instead! (I was about 8 years old)
>
My first electric guitar was a black Marlin strat copy. Christmas 1986
(I think). I gigged it with the first band I was in. I remember strings
broke on it all the time and the pickup tone was pretty nasty. I did
manage to set it up with a fairly playable action though.
Matt
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Yea I had a Marlin Stingray as my first electric, was rather weighty IIRC,
probably 1988 from Coda music. I'm sure it was about £130.
I had to get my dad to collect it for me and was only slightly miffed when
he turned up with a dark metallic blue one instead of the BLACK one I had
hankered after. Everything had to be BLACK and HEAVY in my 80's...
The vibrato / bridge casting lump did eventually just fracture and fall to
pieces a couple of years ago.
I'm half sure that Marlin guitars were kind of endorsed by a dodgy bunch
called Gaye Bikers on Acid back then too...??
Bob
Steve Cobham
wrote:
>Everything had to be BLACK and HEAVY in my 80's...
Wow - you're *old* dude! ;)
>
>The vibrato / bridge casting lump did eventually just fracture and fall to
>pieces a couple of years ago.
Yup, a not-so-hidden feature that quite a few people discovered in a
most unpleasant way.
>
>I'm half sure that Marlin guitars were kind of endorsed by a dodgy bunch
>called Gaye Bikers on Acid back then too...??
I sort of recall a GBOA ad in Making Music, but Marlin guitars were
endorsed by them? That's amazing if it's true.
Steve.
MiniEmma
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Err maybe I just wanted to think that back in 1988 when I had just purchased
one!
Maybe it was just a photo on one of them holding a Marlin Stingray guitar,
maybe just before he smashed it to pieces in some media stunt.
I probably believed everything I saw / read in the press back then...
Bob
Klaatu
I have one ! It was given to me by a friend. It was originally darkish pink,
with, a broken trem mechanism. The block (?) attached to the strings was
made of cheese, and the threaded part had snapped.
It has the active electrics. They are crap, as well.
It was a little project of mine, but I gave up. The neck is like a mobius strip.
Use it for slide, mainly,in "open" tunings, ie no-tunings as the neck bends
everything out.
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Steve Dix
wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:33:30 +0000, Steve Cobham
><st...@XXguitarsXX.powernet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:30:25 +0000, Paul Creedy
>><paul....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Steve Cobham wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:55:37 +0000, Gary Grainger
>>>> <ga...@featcovers.com> wrote:
>>>>
>
>>
>>You may be right.
>>
>>I've seen examples of these where the bridge mechanism was made of
>>such terribly soft metal that the whole assembly literally fell to
>>pieces under use.
>>
>I have one ! It was given to me by a friend. It was originally darkish pink,
>with, a broken trem mechanism. The block (?) attached to the strings was
>made of cheese, and the threaded part had snapped.
>
>It has the active electrics. They are crap, as well.
>
>It was a little project of mine, but I gave up. The neck is like a mobius strip.
>
>Use it for slide, mainly,in "open" tunings, ie no-tunings as the neck bends
>everything out.
I've seen two. My sister's ex had one. It was crap. The other
belonged to an acquaintance who's now fairly well-known. I'm saving
up the pictures of him with it for blackmail purposes.
;->
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icarusi
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> My first electric guitar was a black Marlin strat copy. Christmas 1986 (I
> think). I gigged it with the first band I was in. I remember strings broke
> on it all the time and the pickup tone was pretty nasty. I did manage to
> set it up with a fairly playable action though.
I've still got a Marlin 'Sidewinder'. It has a heavy ply body and some dead
spots but otherwise OK. I considered a body swap but I don't think it's a
standard strat for body cavities, so not so simple.
icarusi
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Marlins were catalogue guitars , the ones i played were absolute shit .
Better ones were the Antorias , Freshers and Kays .
JNugent
The words "were catalogue guitars , the ones i played" are redundant.
> Better ones were the Antorias , Freshers and Kays .
Ah... there are Antorias and Antorias... Kays and Kays...
Fresher's range contained a nice-ish vintage Strat reissue... for a while.
Steve Dix
wrote:
>> Better ones were the Antorias , Freshers and Kays .
>
>Ah... there are Antorias and Antorias... Kays and Kays...
>
Presumably the decent Kays were the "O"-series?
JNugent
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:45:35 +0000, JNugent <not.t...@isp.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>>Better ones were the Antorias , Freshers and Kays .
>>
>>Ah... there are Antorias and Antorias... Kays and Kays...
>>
>
>
>
> Presumably the decent Kays were the "O"-series?
Yes - the Chicag "O" series.
DrLargePants
> marlin had some cheapish strat-style electrics (many of them were black,
> I remember)
The Sidewinders were OK IIRC, the Slammers were garbage though. They
did do a more expensive one again, but the name escapes me now. I
think it had a locking trem of some sort.
When I was about 16 everyone in a band or otherwise had a Marlin of
some sort. I think it was on the back of Making Music banging on about
how good they were.
My mates still got a Marlin 2x12 50 watt combo, and its still crap!
S
Fred X
<snip>
> I've still got a Marlin 'Sidewinder'. It has a heavy ply body and
> some dead spots but otherwise OK. I considered a body swap but I
> don't think it's a standard strat for body cavities, so not so simple.
>
> icarusi
My first ever guitar was a Marlin Sidewinder, which if I remember rightly
cost me around £150ish from the Xmas club at Jones Music in 1987. At the
time I loved it but looking back it was a bit ropey. My main guitar now is a
Kramer 422D from MusicYo, it only cost me around the same price but beats
some guitars I've played costing three times that!
Fred
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> think it had a locking trem of some sort.
It was a Marlin Loner, so I'm told...