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Originally Posted by takauya
I seem to have been mistaken in the past then.
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03-27-2018 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ptchristopher3
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Originally Posted by takauya
It is great to hear from someone actually aware of the Japanese market.
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Originally Posted by buduranus2
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
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Originally Posted by buduranus2
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Originally Posted by takauya
Unless you, living in Japan, have a better inside info that I'm not aware of? I can't check it myself as I can't either read or speak japanese.
Please, feel free to confirm or deny it for me, I'll be glad to stand corrected, if that's the case.
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Originally Posted by takauya
My brother-in-law is Japanese, plays in a local blues rock band in Japan. Over the years he has sent me money to buy a couple of PRS.
On the other hand, his town is where Tokai Gakki is located. So I have picked up three "vintage" Tokais (Springy Sound, Breezy Sound) when visiting over the years. They are great, old "lawsuit era" clones of Strats and Teles. Better than any Fender I could afford.
But the guitar players in his circle just want PRS and Gibson guitars.
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Originally Posted by Flat
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That's what I'm talking about, buduranus2! Yours looks like a pristine, deluxe version of my ST-80. Very nice!
I've spent a lot of time in Hamamatsu. Got married there. Will probably retire there. It's sort of my second hometown.
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Originally Posted by LtKojak
Anyway, it's Terada. It's not a secret or anything. Terada is the biggest OEM factory in Japan and making most if not all of the high-quality laminated top models from all over the world. Even Fujigen stopped making the archtop models quite a while ago and is made by Terada since. I have an interview of Roger Sadowsky from Japanese magazine that he explains the biggest problem of making archtop model was to find the factory which could make the high-quality laminated body. Then he found it in Japan. Without a doubt it's Terada.
Some Japanese gutiar shops state that clearly in the description and also on Japanese Wikipedia site, which of course can be unreliable, but there is no reason for someone to misinform that.
Also, I googled a bit and the Metroline series is/was (dicontinued?) made by the factories in Nagano (T's and Red House) and assembled and setup in Tokyo (Kikuchi).
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Originally Posted by Flat
Gibson and Fender are still strong because we are brainwashed. lol
I remember when I started playing I was drooling over Gibson ads. All of my heroes were playing Gibson. Then I finally bought a used Les Paul it was super heavy and I was like "Oh, a good guitar must be this heavy!". What a stupid kid I was. lol
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Originally Posted by takauya
To be honest, I had my doubts about Sadowsky making such an important investment for all the necessary equipment to make the laminate in the Metro line factory with such low turnout of archtops, so the explanation of the motivations made perfect sense and actually reaffirms what I already knew about the Terada factory.
My #1 instrument is Terada-made: a 1981 Emperador 335 copy, that I bought from the granddaughter of a retired Terada luthier.
This instrument gives any CS 335 a round for its money and then some.
Thank you for taking the the time to answer my question. Really appreciated!
Yours very truly,Last edited by LtKojak; 04-01-2018 at 10:00 AM.
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Originally Posted by takauya
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Originally Posted by GNAPPI
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I am looking for a Vestax " modern acoustic es1500". It is an acoustic archtop from Japan.
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Originally Posted by ThatRhythmMan
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