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steve@guitarvillage.com | www.guitarvillage.co.uk
I have played a few Yamano Gibsons (thats USA gibsons made for Yamano in japan) that have made it to the UK
IIRC the general word on Yamano gibsons was that they were a step above what we normally see in the UK as Yamano's buying power gave them the ability to pick and choose what they actually wanted. The suggestion seemed to be that a Yamano that has ended up in the UK was either rejected by Yamano, or imported by someone who purchased it from Yamano
I don't know how much truth there is in that, but the ones I played have been pretty great. I guess the fact the japanese market managed to avoid the features the rest of the world got confirms they have more influence on the spec sheet than we do over here.
Although one, a cherry red 335, caused a lot of confusion. It was a 62 style 335 with 2 cream coloured labels (not the usual orange) stuck over each other in the f-hole with slightly different model numbers. It also had an odd serial number beginning with a Y and didn't seem to fit the spec of any known gibsons. other than these tiny discrepancies it looked to my eyes to be totally genuine
All the usual internet 'experts' wrote it off as a very good fake. I contacted gibson and they said they had no record of the guitar. I didn't believe it was fake so I went back with pics and a specific question about Yamano and they finally stated it was all totally genuine
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I'm not saying I believed the stories about those, but do you think Gibson produce each and every guitar to order with no over run. Or size their production runs based on predicted sales that could well lead to an over supply on some models?
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steve@guitarvillage.com | www.guitarvillage.co.uk
Bit of a dafy idea to think Japan is cheaper than Nashville as a manufacturing centre
Minimum Wage Japan is 6 dollars per hour and 7.5 per hour in Japan.
US average groos income 56,000 dollars per year Japan 35,000 (Mexico is 609 dollars per month by comparison) Electricity (Major cost in running a factory) is a lot pricier in Japan. Nashville is full of starving musicians willing to do anything to make money so cheap labour is ten a penny there. The Japan is home to some of the world´s finest craftsman and most skilled woodworkers. It is an absolutely first world country so is hardly where you´d move to for cheap manufacturing. High end, very high quality stuff is what it makes these days.
People were just asking what the Gibson Japan tag meant.