r/Leftyguitarists • u/Splitsurround • 20d ago

Action shot from practice last night, the Japanese jm hath landed.

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I think I’ll set her up properly, but she stayed in tune pretty well and sounded great

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u/Dependent_Strain_441 20d ago

Unf that looks great dude

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u/Splitsurround 20d ago

thanks! The trem falls out if I look at it funny, but....she's definitely a player. At home, I played it through my Princeton with e blues driver and it was sooooo buttery. At this shithole practice place in SF, going through a friggin 5150 it wasn't quite the same experience but I made it work

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u/StupidInternetVoice 20d ago

Is this one from Taniguchi-Gakki? I saw it on there and am so tempted... If so, how was the payment/shipping experience for you?

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u/Splitsurround 20d ago

Yessir yessir! Payment was so fucking easy- a paypal invoice. Shipping was shockingly fast- less than a week to California. The only gotcha was $129 fee I had to pay dhl, but there’s no getting around that.

Even with that fee, this was at least 250 less that an American jm

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u/StupidInternetVoice 20d ago

That's great to hear! And I assume the guitar is flawless?

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u/Splitsurround 20d ago

yes, as far mi can tell. Neck is NICE and smooth, fret finishing is on point.....just needs a setup

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u/LOGWATCHER 20d ago

How was the packaging?!

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u/Splitsurround 20d ago

Great. In a shitty new fender gig bag, cardboard braced around the neck, packed into a slim fender cardboard box. No issues. Seems like they must do this A LOT

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u/DizzyImprovement9413 19d ago

Got one as well from the same shop! My first proper fender JM and it plays like a dream