Rumour has it that Japan itself is being geographically re-designed to resemble, you guessed it, a Strat!! ![]() Does the world need another bleeping Strat? I have a theory that there is a surplus of Strat bodies piled high in a used car lot in the heart of Japan's guitar industry: so large is this mountain that our inscrutable friends can't bear to waste a potential profit. Mind you, one does have to question the inclusion of a Strat-shaped guitar into the range when the whole point of the NJ Series was to offer the outlandish American designs at a cheap price. Still, in my books anyone who knocks out a guitar for (just) under £200 deserves a pat on the back. ![]() Despite what people would have us believe, the NJ Series is just another front for a Japanese budget range of guitars and the results are typical of that ilk. Certainly the shapes are borrowed from the legendary BC Rich instruments (with the exception of the ST) but little else remains. It's always interesting to check out any make of guitar with an American name even when, like these, they are designed in America and made in Japan.
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