Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Other friends of Japanese guitars?

Both of my electrics are Japanese, as is my bass. The other one of the guitars and the bass are from the turn of 70's and 80's, double cutaway, double humbucker neck-through models. They look somewhat dated, but play really nicely, and you can kind of feel the handcraft in them. From the few samples I've seen, the pickups are a bit of a weak spot even with higher end models, but update them, and there's a chance of a good instrument at a bargain price.

I got the second guitar new a few years back, a tele, with an apparently single piece ash body (I've tried to look for any seams or bookmatch mirroring, but it just isn't there). Love that one too, and I currently think that tele is the perfect electric, but it's lacking a bit soul compared to the other two. I've been meaning to update it a bit, a bakelite pickguard and bare knuckle pickups, but I've had so little chance to play lately I haven't been able to justify it.

Can't see if there any pics with this at work but it sounds intruguing dude. I love 70s and 80s Jap Fenders. Mate of mine just bought a late 80s Jap P bass and it's fantastic. The Jap stuff beats the hell out o fthe US CBS stuff from the same era.