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We were both deep into the Japanese replicas researching and collecting thus, I could only care about the Burny “Les Paul” from the little pamphlet. Sometime in 2004 a friend brought me back the 2003-2004 Japanese Fernandes catalog from his trip in Japan. Despite all of this flamboyant background, Fernandes is still best known in the west for the Sustainer system, an electronic unit/neck pickup that moves the guitar strings and create infinite sustain and crazy harmonics, at least for as long as your 9 volt battery works.
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Their business took off thanks to the faithful copies or rather replicas of American guitars, notably Gibson and Fender guitars, they were producing along with other Japanese brands – Greco, Tokai, Ibanez, Orville, Navigator etc – in the heydays (end of the 70s throughout the 80s). Fernandes Guitars is a Japanese brand that started manufacturing guitars and accessories in 1969.
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