Anyone know of somewhere to get Japanese-market ESPs?

[Russ]

Take a look at these (from the Japanese ESP site):

[url="http://www.espguitars.co.jp/artist/tetsu/index.html"]http://www.espguitars.co.jp/artist/tetsu/index.html[/url]

... the red Edwards Lakland-alike is filling me with GAS right now. Anyone got any idea where someone might be able to order one? I seem to recall there were a couple of places that specialised in Japanese guitars online, but I can't find them right now.

[Shockwave]

Tetsu is an awesome bassist, and L'arc en ciel is an awesome band

Best to go on ishibishi or US ebay, a few weeks ago they had some tetsu models in Japan.

Mind you, He has many many sig models.

[mike257]

I'm sure I found somewhere ages ago, I'll dig around and see if I saved it anywhere. I was hunting for an Edwards guitar a while back, some of them are stunning. They don't export them normally, but I think there's a fella in Austria or somewhere who sells loads of them on eBay. Might be worth a quick search round there

[BigRedX]

Ishibashi don't appear to sell ESP new, just their Edwards and Grassroots sub-brands. However the [url="http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/ubox.cgi?T=gazo&word=2&or8=32&key=&equal1=&value5=&select5=down&print=40"]Ishibashi U-Box[/url] normally has some tasty-looking used ESPs.

How about [url="http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/ubox.cgi?T=syosai&sline=4802&print=1&keys2=umeda%40ishibashi%2Eco%2Ejp&tid=list3"]this one[/url]? Unfortunately with the week £, even second hand that works out at around £1700 plus shipping Duty VAT and handling...

Edited March 5, 2009 by BigRedX

[Linus27]

Guitar Village in Farnham has some ESP basses. Might be worth dropping them a note.