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Hiho...


i bought a Oakland&Co guitar yesterday, the guitar sounds great..but i never heard of the company...

its a Neck-Through Sratstyle guitar, with 2 Humbuckers (DiMarzios) an a typical 80's electric (3 way switch, 2 Coilsplitswitches,2xVolume,2xTone)

i will make Photos tommorow....


Thanx

EDIT!!




sorry i was away so long (university stress)

O.K. please visit...

http://www.diedunkelkammer.de/oakland.htm

It looks like a typical Uncle Matt but all factories borrowed ideas from each other at the time so it's impossible to say for sure.

- The bridge looks identical to the Washburn Raven bridge.
- The pickups have two hight adjustment screws on the upper side. This is just like the Washburn Wing series. The text says they're DiMarzios. How did you determine that? Are they stamped with DP-numbers that reveals the type?
- Brass nut, another feature shared by many Matsumoku guitars.
- Similar switch and control configuration to a Cardinal.

The headstock doesn't look familiar at all.

Here's an Oakland & Co strat copy I found while searching.
http://www.guitarmaniacs.de/html/users/ ... isc2.shtml

Could it be a Germany only thing? Is there any way of searching to see if Oakland & Co has been registered as a brand name somewhere?

the Pickups hat stamps like DP103XXXXXX(forgot the numbers...) at the neck and DP100XXXXXXX at the bridge... so it looks like DiMarzios (maybe someone put them in later?)...

i like the guitar, but today i had to change the tuners (2 were not functioning)...

do you know if there is a replacement bridge for this guitar? i dont like gold very much!...(of course i would save the originals!)...

120€ wasn't to much for it.... at least i think so! and this is important

Here is one other model.
Is there any info about these guitars?
To me it looks like the performer series.

Any info about Oakland?

I have never heard of Oakland & Co guitars and I don't think
many folks around here have either.

It could be one of those deals where a music company would buy
a batch of instruments branded with their own name.
They would go out of business and that would be the end of that line.

Many of those purchases turned out to be short runs or one time deals.
An example would be the Skylark guitars that JC Penny sold briefly.

Anyway the description of the guitar plus the fact that you love it make it a winner.

http://img62.exs.cx/img62/3163/f1aoaklandjapan.jpg
I got this Oakland Catalogue scan. Can somebody translate it?

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I've bought an Oakland&Co guitar in the last month from Germany via ebay for 212€.
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