FGN guitars

[throwoff]

These instruments were the highlight of my MusikMesse.

They are a Japanese company who now operate the FujiGen facility (if that name isn't familiar you might recognise the name Fender Japan!)

Fender Japan moved over to the Tokai factory a while back and these guys have maintained a lot of the machinery and individuals who were involved in Fender Japan.

No pics im afraid was far too busy, but first time you see one in UK PLAY IT!

[url="http://www.fgnguitars.com/"]http://www.fgnguitars.com/[/url]

Very odd website I am afraid, will take you a while to find the familiar shapes!

Edited June 23, 2010 by throwoff

[throwoff]

I am bumping this because I have noticed in the last few weeks a LOT of big European stores begin to show these as on stock.

[NJE]

Wow, these look really good and I even quite like their own design basses as well. I shall definately keep an eye out for these, any idea on price?

[rjb]

Interesting how they have decided to put the factory name out there as a brand.

For some reason the traditional bass shapes are hidden away. Here's a link to their Jazz 5. Looks very nice!

[url="http://www.fgnguitars.com/jjb5r.html"]http://www.fgnguitars.com/jjb5r.html[/url]

Edited June 23, 2010 by rjb

[Annoying Twit]

The FGN Les Paul guitars are sold for quite a high price. The start at 1000 euros and go up. I've seen £549 as a price for a FGN strat. (googles). Ah, 749 euros for a P-bass. [url="http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Fgn-Neo-Classic-P-Bass-3TS.html"]http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Fgn-Neo-Cla...P-Bass-3TS.html[/url]

[henry norton]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='875164' date='Jun 23 2010, 11:15 AM']The FGN Les Paul guitars are sold for quite a high price. The start at 1000 euros and go up. I've seen £549 as a price for a FGN strat. (googles). Ah, 749 euros for a P-bass. [url="http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Fgn-Neo-Classic-P-Bass-3TS.html"]http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Fgn-Neo-Cla...P-Bass-3TS.html[/url][/quote]
Considering the MIM Standards are cheaper than that and a US Std. not much more (in the UK), they're going to have a hard time pushing them at that price, no matter how good they are. Would you say they were as good as a US Standard throwoff?

[rjb]

Agreed. Plus, although the guitars themselves look great, the FGN logo looks very, very cheap.

Poorly designed comic fonts should [u]not[/u] be used on high end gear.


[quote name='henry norton' post='875197' date='Jun 23 2010, 10:57 AM']Considering the MIM Standards are cheaper than that and a US Std. not much more (in the UK), they're going to have a hard time pushing them at that price, no matter how good they are.[/quote]

[throwoff]

[quote name='henry norton' post='875197' date='Jun 23 2010, 09:57 AM']Considering the MIM Standards are cheaper than that and a US Std. not much more (in the UK), they're going to have a hard time pushing them at that price, no matter how good they are. Would you say they were as good as a US Standard throwoff?[/quote]

I would but then I have a massive soft spot for Japanese and Korean built instruments.

Hopefully come into UK soon and people can get playing them.

A collegue of mine who runs stuff in China for us knows the guys through a friend in another factory and he got quite a bit of advance info and said they are really incredibly built!

[cocco]

I saw Zebra Head the other night. Their bass player had one of these that looked pretty sweet. Traditional jazz shape/config in metallic red (brighter than CAR) with a matching head stock. His had a high mass g&lish looking bridge with black hardware. It looked and sounded awesome. Plenty of 70s jazz growl and bite.

[Doctor J]

A friend of mine has a couple of Fujigen guitars, a strat and a Les Paul, very decent they are too. Not mindblowing, but a good standard of build and good parts, got them both for around €500 each 2nd hand off Ishibashi.