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Actually, you can still order new Fender Japan guitars
from Ishibashi Music in Japan.
I have purchased three guitars from them and am
extremely pleased. The exchange rate is working
against us, but you can still get one for ~$600
delivered air mail.
--- red_thundr <> wrote:
>
> >
> > Having said that, if you can go $300, a good
> mid-late 80's Japan
> Strat is mighty hard to beat!
> >
> > Bruce D
>
> Oh yeah! Hell, the 80s Jap Strats even blow the
> latest *AMERICAN*
> Fender products out of the water quality-wise. The
> level of quality
> in the Japanese Stratocasters of that era is simply
> amazing. I have
> an '85 Fender Contemporary Stratocaster MIJ, and it
> has never not once
> ever failed me, and it's been beaten to death. The
> tone and sustain
> are magnificent.
>
> It was the quality of the Japanese production models
> that shamed
> Fender America back into better quality control.
> Dan Smith, Director
> of Marketing, Fender Electric Guitars at the time
> :"Everybody came up
> to inspect them and the guys almost cried, because
> the Japanese
> product was so good - it was what we had been having
> a hell of a time
> trying to do."
>
> The Fender Japanese product is *so* good, they don't
> even sell them in
> America anymore, you have to settle for an American
> made model.
>
>
>
>
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