Buy a one-way ticket to Japan and go try to buy one there.

Tell us when you get back...

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Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

There's no market for that s*** in America, whereas Japan is full of collectors who will buy ljust about anything they can get their hands on in hopes that it'll one day be valuable/rare/collectible. A lot of them don't even play, they just buy enough guitars to fill warehouses.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Eh, most of the mustangs are EXACTLY the same in function with only the finish being different, and even then, the mustang is a VERY niche guitar with a VERY specific sound. Once you have one you're pretty much set with mustangs, there's no real reason for multiples.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Floyd, I'm seeing Bad Religion at reason rally next weekend.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Try this place,they're based in Japan but they sell MIJ Fenders plus other brands and they ship to the U.S. http://www.guitarsjapan.com/ you'll definitely find what you're loking for there,my buddy has bought a few guitars from them and they only sell 9.0 and up condition guitars plus some brand new models.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Lucky....


Next show I have that I'm definitely going to is Cloud Nothings on the 26th. Thinking that'd be a good show to bring a "friend" to...

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I'm bringing my lady. She wanted to go to a Children of Bodom concert. We had no ride though. Luckily, we can take the metro.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Nice Guitars...I'm a huge fan of the E series Mij........Best bang for buck you'll buy in a fender....My god he wants stratosphere money for them though..... You'll but them a lot cheaper on ebay....

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ebay

Like this one?

http://atstyle-guitars.com/?pid=41145632


Don't forget about other brands...Bacchus Vintage and Classic Series are great guitars as well as older Tokai's.

I have purchased used Japanese market guitars from a Tokyo music shop called Ishibashi. It was about the same as buying from Sam Ash or Musician's Friend (give 'em a Visa number and they ship it to you).

They cannot sell new Fender Japan models to Americans, but they can sell used ones. So check out Ishibashi's "U-Box" (web page with their used stuff). There's some really cool stuff there!

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Really? wow! I wasn't aware that Fender Japan has restrictions on shipping out new MIJs? I'm about to place an order for an MG69 MH VSP OCR - which the rep from Ishibashi priced at 100k yen for me and I'm pretty sure it's a new one for that price.

I'll be placing the order through this page:

http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/eng/howtoorder.html

Is it possible that this is because I live in Canada?

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Fender American Special Strat HSS
Fender Mustang MG69/MH VSP OCR
Ibanez RG870QMZ
Ibanez RGA72TQME
Epiphone Prophesy LP Custom GX

Fender Mustang 2
Line 6 Spider IV

Not all Mustangs sound alike-they all may have a similar overall tone but each has its own unique sound footprint that makes it different from the others.I have 5 Strats and it is no problem to identify each one as a Strat when you hear it they all have markedly differennt signature tones.It's for this reason that some of our esteemed forum members have amassed dozens of Strats alone as well as multiples of other models.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Yes, it might be the Canada thing. It has been "on" and "off" over the years, and I'll admit I might be wrong about them not currently being able to ship new Fender Japan to the USA (Fender didn't want them to). They used to say on their website -- I haven't checked it lately.

I'm more interested in the USED Japanese stuff anyway (and mostly brands other than Fender).

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Member #26797
My other guitar is a Strat.

Fairly recently, I won a Korean Hamer Tele-copy on ebay, and literally 4-days later ran across someone selling a Japanese Tele-copy on Craigslist called a "Photogenic" for $60.

They were both actually very good guitars as they were, but I decided to swap parts to my own liking.

Anyway, the Photogenic had this body on it. Not a scratch on it.



Double bound metallic red. Very well crafted. However, I wasn't too fond of the Maple neck on the Hamer, so I put it on the Photogenic, and put the Photogenic neck on the Hamer.

Hamer guitar with Photogenic neck and pickguard:


Hamer neck on the Photogenic body:


Photogenic headstock:


The guy who sold me the photogenic was in the military and bought it in Japan. He said it cost him $400 over there. I've had people ask me if I was gonna sand off the "Photogenic" label on it. But I'm not doing that. I like it. It does seem very Japanese to me that someone would think it's a cool name for a guitar, and I've never run across anyone else who has a Photogenic guitar. The Tele style seems to be rare for that brand as well.

I played the Hamer with the Photogenic neck guitar last night, and it was awesome!! I put Fender Hot Alnico 3 pickups in it and installed new pots, one being a no-load tone, and it's just a beautiful sound and feel. I'm becoming a big fan of Telecasters as a result.

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