As I mentioned before I
haven't been getting anywhere in my search for information regarding actual
numbers of the hand-airbrushed Ibanez UCGR guitars that I have, so I decided to
try to obtain it directly from the source, Mr. Dan Lawrence himself. He was
kind enough to provide the following insight:
"The Cosmic Swirl 1's and Grim Reapers, 20-25 each give or
take. Only about 10 of the Cosmic Swirl 2's. The hard one to get would be the
Swamp Creature; maybe like 5-6 of those."
Additionally
Well I
found an old receipt book. Time frame was from 11/19/90 to 4/6/92 the list goes:
UN Zipped -1
Grim reaper-19
cosmic swirl-11
No Bones-13
Ice World-16
Angels depart-39
Cosmic Swirl 2- 8
I still did a few more but It stopped towards the end of the year as I
recall...So there ya go.
So, there we have it. I kind of figured the numbers would be very low, given
that Ibanez offered the UCGR line for only about a year and a half AND that
there were many different themes as well. Indeed, as he stated in your past
interview with him, "I'm only one man with one brush!"
Ron