This morning i traded a broken guitar for a Marlin Sidewinder bass and i'm having trouble finding information on it. Any info you guys have on the com. A couple of years ago, I started a thread about Hohner guitars. Since I have been a long time owner of a Hohner G-940 acoustic, when I started that thread I was thinking of acoustics, and so I placed that thread in the 'Acoustic Heaven' section.

I’ve already covered the on this blog, but this post adds some wider snapshots of this big-hitting range of 1980s Korean instruments. Below you’ll find a 1988 UK advert for the Marlin guitars, which was part of a drive to maintain the brand’s position as a bestseller. To briefly recap, before, the Marlin Sidewinder had been virtually unchallenged as outright bestselling guitar in the UK.

But after Squier began shipping much cheaper instruments from Korea, the Marlin brand suffered, hence the need to push the guitars hard in advertisements The 1988 ad above shows four models of guitar, including the formerly market-busting Sidewinder. But I wonder how many people knew or remembered that Marlin also offered amplifiers? The guitars in the ad are as follows MARLIN STINGRAY Priced at £159, the K36KT Stingray was Marlin’s locking trem-fitted HSS ‘Superstrat’, featuring a coil-tappable humbucker and two single coils (all wax-potted), and coming in either Red, Dark Blue, Charcoal Fire, Pearl White or Black. All the finishes were metallic, but only two – the Red and the Charcoal – were available on the left-handed models. MARLIN BLUE FIN The Blue Fin was a roughly vee-bodied rock machine featuring two humbuckers, a locking trem and a maple neck.

Priced at £139 it was the cheapest of the advertised guitars. There’s no stipulation that the pickups are wax-potted, so I suspect this cheaper instrument used pickups more typical of the Korean output of the day. Especially given that the Blue Fin’s price also included a gig bag, the guitar was pretty evidently a tier below the rest of the range in terms of budget.

MARLIN SIDEWINDER I’ve covered this model in depth in its own article, but I should draw attention to the Sidewinder Bass (Model KB34), which is also depicted in this advert, and came priced at £129 in a choice of five colours. Notice also how all of the Marlin instruments in this ad have body-matching headstocks. MARLIN LONER The £169 Marlin K38KT Loner was similar in concept to the Stingray, although it had a different body shape and a pointy, rather than traditional Strat-style headstock.

The pickup formation was HSH rather tha HSS, but like all the other guitars except the Blue Fin, once again all the coils were wax permeated to prevent microphonic squeal. The five available colours were Candy Apple Red, Dark Blue, Charcoal Fire, Pearl White and Black – the same as the Stingray.

However, three of the finishes (Black, Charcoal and Red) came with celluloid body binding. As with all the Marlins, left hand versions, where available, were priced the same as the right-handers. Despite the prevalence of the 1988 adverts (the Sidewinder also had its own dedicated ad), the power of Fender’s Korean Squiers proved impossible to overturn at that time, and the Marlin gear slipped down the sales charts.

By 1989, British Music Strings had ceased UK distribution of the Marlins, and Hohner had taken over, even branding themselves in, presumably in an attempt to pitch Marlin as a sort of budget superbrand. The ad to the left comes from mid 1989 and shows a completely new range of instruments in which the ‘Strat’ is no longer strictly a Fender copy, and range-wide changes have taken place, including the dropping of the characteristic twelfth fret fish inlay, and drastic revision of the headstock shapes. But even the combined might of the Hohner and Marlin brands was not enough to reassert the success of the guitars in what was now a very different environment. Jeff mills waveform transmission vol 1 rar.