Anybody Ever Hear of "SANATAGO" guitars?

toomanycats · Tue Dec 29, 2020 5:52 pm

I came across an example of one today in a pawn shop priced at $179. It a semi hollow PRS type copy in pristine condition. I don't have pics of the actual instrument I saw, but it is a blue burl version of the semi-hollows shown below. My cursory research indicates that Sanatago guitars are rebranded Jay Tursors made in the 2000s or possibly the 90s. I'm reading that a guy named Dennis at MusiclandCentral sold Sanatago as a house brand, mail order only. Can anyone confirm this? There seems to be flurry of posts about these guitars on Harmony Central in the mid 2000s, and I figure that some of you guys may have actually been there.

Anybody ever own one, have any insight into the brand, know about the specs, etc.? I find these imports that were produced contemporaneous to the "golden age" Agiles highly intriguing.

toomanycats · Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:06 pm

Sanatago no info?

uwmcscott · Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:16 pm

Never heard of them other than your post, and googlez takes me to the same pics you have posted

toomanycats · Thu Dec 31, 2020 5:58 am

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:16 pm Never heard of them other than your post, and googlez takes me to the same pics you have posted

There must not be an awful lot of info on them out there. It felt like a solidly built guitar, on par at least with the quality of SX. Didn't plug it in, so I can't comment on the amplified tone, though acoustically it had good resonance. Action and frets work were satisfactory; tuners felt smooth; and I could see a Switchcraft style sector and what looked like full sized pots through the f hole.

It was good enough that if it had been $100 or under I would have immediately grabbed it. At $179 it's priced higher than these sold new 15+ years ago, which I've read was around $150ish. Still, it had just enough interesting things going on to keep me thinking about it.

Hopefully when I swing by that place again it's gone, and I mean that sincerely, because I really don't need another cheap import. I've realized that I will only ever gig my higher quality, 100 % reliable instruments; I already have far too many "beaters" laying around the house; and I know that my self rationalizing about flipping them someday is just a bunch of b.s. I'm just a damn hoarder at this point!