I came across this japanese strat which I never saw before, it looks like the japanese market gets to enjoy models like this one

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0303576447

ah man see that beautifull abalone, and the tuners. Who needs a customshop when japanese people can design guitars for you. It looks worth the fly out just to try it.

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Helo Synkronized,

That Strat sure is an eye catcher.
Thanks for that link, nice stuff
comes out of the land of the rising sun.

Cheers.

Yes, indeed it is a nice guitar, I am not a fan of gold hardware myself in fact most of the gold hardware guitars I see, on a personal opinion, dont have a really nice color combination as a whole... but this guitar is an exception I liked it from the moment I saw it hehe, everything fits really well and I love the gold bridge with the stamped fender saddles and then the gold gotoh tuners and the back plate, even the little gold screws everything "fits" and those frets ....... I also like the inlays... I don't know who is the guy whose signature guitar that is but the guitar looks like a prize hehe

GOSH! I hate myself for it, but the tart in me just wants that immediately! At first I thought he'd flipped his noddle where he talks about a flame maple cap, but no, it's there! Very subtle - how can a Strat with gold hardware be subtle? But that one is!

I don't want to play it - I just want to lick it. That is the Haagen-Dazs white chocolate ice cream Strat!

Gimme gimme!

Cheers - C

that's beautiful.

That's one sweet guitar. Looks real good. CIJ looks better and better everytime I see one.

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
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1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

whoa that guitar is nice... Im not 100% about the plastic tuner buttons, but that neck looks soo nice with the abalone, almost nice enough to leave a hiki on it lol My Am. Deluxe neck doesnt look as good that...

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I'd love to buy it, but it's so pretty I couldn't bring myself to play it!!

Thats one beautiful guitar! Eye catching in a tasteful way. Its hard to go wrong with an MIJ/CIJ Strat.

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WOW !!!!!!, That is 1 Beautiful Stratocaster, everything is so perfect together. Whoever buys it is gonna be 1 Lucky Strat Owner. Definately worth the asking price. Thanks for the Link dude, "ROCK ON".

They make a Strat and a Tele Kotzen Signature model.

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Hello Synkronized,

Turns out Richie Kotzen is a Pennsylvanian.
Born about 1970 and back in the early 90's
played with the band Poison, Seems he
is quite well liked over there in Japan.
Uses Marshall amplifiers mostly.

Thats what I know.

Cheers.

I remember seeing that guitar or a similar one recently on eBay (Australia)...I have dim recollections of pictures of Ritchie Kotzen on the cover of Guitar World back in the late '80s or early '90s. Instead of saying "Let them eat cake," Marie Antoinette should have whipped this baby out and melted everybody's faces off...it just has that decadent Louis XIV vibe...heh.