Understanding CMI guitars and amps

roller1985 · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 2

1bassleft wrote:

Hello all, regulars and passers-through. If you have clicked on this because of a search engine looking for CMI info, please take a little time to post in a reply yourself if you have a CMI. I want to nail this complicated story so that everyone knows what they've got, but I'm not The Oracle (Delphi or Matrix) so please help me fix any misinformation or update any gaps. Thanks Smile

Hello. I Bought a CMI from"cash coverters" a few weeks ago. It looked very dusty, but I could see the quality of it. I got it home and googled this CMI, a name I had never heard of. Mine is a 335 Shape and is fantastic quality with low action, and the loudest pickups I have ever Heard!! I have also this week bought a Yamato (les paul shape) in Black which I beleive to be also made in Japan in the same era. The pickups look Identical. A wonderful guitar, and interesting to know about the

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olemuso · Groupie Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 34

I`ve seen a picture of the one you have, and I`m quite jealous. Mine is waiting for me to replace the selector switch then I`ll play some tracks and put up a link..

Tim · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

Hey both, not seen 1bl for a while, normally he'd be all over this...I'll see if I can rouse him, he does have a habit of jetting of to places Spanish.

scythe74 · Joined: 11 Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Location: London

Hello? I just posted a reply, along with a few pics...only to be told I had used a 'forbidden word', and a moderator would get back to me. I wonder what on earth this 'forbidden word' could be? I did mention the word 'BLUE', but that would surely be a tad on the extreme side of puritan...

Anyone?

olemuso · Groupie Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 34

Hello scythe74. I seem to remember that happening to me when I first joined. I don`t think I ever found out what the word was Confused

scythe74 · Joined: 11 Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Location: London

Hello people, have been reading previous replies with great interest, and thought I might add my two-penny-worth...

Acquired about 8 years ago, from Blue Audio on Upper Street, Islington-is this ungainly beast. A CMI twin-neck! (Trumpets Blast)

Tell me what you think/know/reckon...

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I have more pics, if anyone would like to see them...just thought I'd refrain from taking up a whole page on my first outing!

Small backstory to this guitar...The guy in the store mentioned that he believed it to have been the property of comedian/musician Bill Bailey. About 6 weeks later, I happened to be working at the taping of a show for BBC Scotland, where said Mr. Bailey was appearing as a guest.

I took the opportunity to sidle up to him between takes, and enquire as to whether he had indeed owned this beast. Having established that it had once been his (the dried-out remains of a gaffa 'strap-lock' are his legacy), I went on to ask him what use he'd made of it.

Turns out that the intro to 'Peaches' is about the only musical gag he could wring out of it....

Stacey · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:14 pm Post subject:

scythe74 wrote:

Hello? I just posted a reply, along with a few pics...only to be told I had used a 'forbidden word', and a moderator would get back to me. I wonder what on earth this 'forbidden word' could be? I did mention the word 'BLUE', but that would surely be a tad on the extreme side of puritan...

Anyone?

Sometimes our anti-spam software we have implemented on our message boards picks up things as forbidden words by error, as was the case with your post.

Many times over the day I check the held posts and approve them to be viewable. Once you have made at least 4 posts and are member for at least 7 days, the word blocker will bypass you and your post will no longer be held for moderation.

olemuso · Groupie Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 34

Hey, that`s excellent! I luvvit!!

Do you play it much? What does it sound like? I`d really like one of those! Wink

scythe74 · Joined: 11 Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Location: London

Thank you, Stacey-I was pretty sure that I was in the clear, but kept re-reading the post, to see if the end of one word...and the start of another...added up to anything crass.

Anyway, sorry that those links just showed up as, well...links. It's a ton and a half of a guibass, but both necks are eminently playable, the bass neck tending towards a short-scale (although I've not measured it), presumably for the sake of symmetricality. There's no particular sense of headstock-heaviness, although the necessity of wearing it high, so you can reach the 6 properly, would probably help.There's a three-position switch for 6/BOTH/4, and just one mono output. I'm pretty sure the skull volume knob is not original.

I'll go and look again at the info earlier in the thread, about dating the thing. Funnily enough, there's a serial number for each neck...and they're not consecutive.

You guys are an absolute goldmine-anybody else have anything to contribute?

olemuso · Groupie Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 34

Well, I`ve had my CMI Artist Model Strat for a year and have had fun "doing it up" but the time has come to let it go as I`m trying to raise funds for a Fender Baja Tele Wink

So I`ve stuck it on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250624595617&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

I know my B.I.N. is very optimistic but the reserve is actually quite low. Anyway, it`ll find it`s own level. Wink

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