Jackson Stars .... Why do the Japanese get the goodies .... :-p

[mat091285]

Man ... just check the new Jackson Stars Website .. and the Jap's just rolled out some yummy limited editions just for themselves ....

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SOMEBODY GET SOMETHING!

 

[jymellis]

i am more into the jap only ibanez. but on the other hand. people in japan pay high dollar for american made guitars (even if we consider them crap).

 

[playstopause]

Wow, that maple fretboard one is quite sexy!

 

[Thin_Ice_77]

I like the natural. Don't like the gold hardware though.

 

[hairychris]

i am more into the jap only ibanez. but on the other hand. people in japan pay high dollar for american made guitars (even if we consider them crap).

We pay stupid cash for US instruments in the UK too. We don't think about guitars in terms of 'import' because a massive majority of our guitars are imports. There's a certain cachet to USA guitars, but you pay for it.

Japanese Jacksons are good guitars, anyhoo.

 

[Scali]

Yea, there's hardly any mass-produced guitars coming from Europe at all.
I believe Epiphone has a factory in the Czech republic, but that's about all I can think of.

The biggest producers of guitars seem to be the US, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and China. Perhaps Mexico fits in there aswell, I only know of Fender mass-producing there, but their output could be considerable, even some of their signature guitars come from there.

So yea, here in The Netherlands, pretty much 100% of all guitars in a regular shop are import. It's probably the same for most of Europe.
I guess we're better with amps (Marshall, Orange, Vox, Hi-watt, Engl, Hughes & Kettner, Kitty Hawk, Koch... and probably lots more).

But I can't stand that brands like Ibanez and Jackson release certain models for certain markets only. Usually the models you can't get are the ones that appeal to you most.
Jackson was actually quite hard to get at all here, not many shops carried them. Now that they are part of Fender, more shops carry them (pretty much every shop carries Fender and Gibson).
Schecter is even worse, they don't sell at all in The Netherlands. I can only buy them from Germany or such... Unseen, unplayed.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

I just checked and for the Japan made warrior with neck through they want $2k US. I can get a US WR1 for that. For the US made Jackson Stars they want $4k. For the $2k one I imagine it's a good deal for the Japanese folk. I doubt the US made Jackson Stars is a good deal even for the Japanese people. Anyone know the difference between US Jackson Stars and a regular US Jackson? Are they made in the same shop?

 

[troyguitar]

Anyone know the difference between US Jackson Stars and a regular US Jackson? Are they made in the same shop?

Same shop, same people, same materials. They just add "Stars" to the headstock for legal reasons in Japan. I guess someone else has the rights to "Jackson"...

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

I wonder how much it is to import a WR-1 into Japan? You would think it would be cheaper than the $2k upcharge that Jackson Stars is offering.

 

[Apophis]

cool guitars

 

[That_One_Person]

I think what you would pay is 75% of what JS says. I saw on some websites that the KV-1's go for around $1560 USD, hopefully that is what the new Mahoghany ones go for!

 

[Kagami]

Wow, that maple fretboard one is quite sexy!

+1000 that looks awesome, red + maple is always a good combo

 

[guitarbuilder93]

check out the blonde kv2,

 

[ephriamiv7]

siqq warriors

 

[Panterica]

basswood? why is that rhoads basswood?

 

[Shinto]

Why hasn't Jackson released these in the US? They don't look alien to most Westerners, and yet they look different (in a good way) compared to most RRs.