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Re: Japanese Strat question

8/1/1999 10:34 PM
Steve M.	Re: Japanese Strat question John, I've owned several early to mid 80s Japanese strat knockoffs, Tokai, Fernandez, ESP, etc. All of them were extremely good copies of vintage strats. One thing the Japanese did well with those was make excellent copies. I had a chance to play a friend's 1957 strat, and my '57 Tokai copy was easily the equal of the real strat in terms of playability and construction OTOH, the real Achilles heel of those guitars were the pickups and electronics. The PUs sounded like crap, IMHO. Also the hardware tended to be kinda cheezy. my $.02 worth... Steve

8/1/1999 10:34 PM

Steve M.

Re: Japanese Strat question

John,

I've owned several early to mid 80s Japanese strat knockoffs, Tokai, Fernandez, ESP, etc. All of them were extremely good copies of vintage strats. One thing the Japanese did well with those was make excellent copies. I had a chance to play a friend's 1957 strat, and my '57 Tokai copy was easily the equal of the real strat in terms of playability and construction

OTOH, the real Achilles heel of those guitars were the pickups and electronics. The PUs sounded like crap, IMHO. Also the hardware tended to be kinda cheezy.

my $.02 worth...

Steve

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