Recent content by sneakyjapan

years ago it was the dye they used for colored the toilet paper that was the problem.

The old SG`s I have owned and seen are dated on the bottom of the pick-ups with the old Japanese system... the Yamaha LP-400 I has wasn`t though.

If you love cheesecake and are coming to Japan, get someone to teach you how to make it before you came...what they call cheesecake in Japan is not cheesecake. I`m not big on sweets so those girls would know more than I do however I find cakes and puddings not nearly as sweet as they are in...

If that girl can`t find plain white toilet paper, she isn`t looking hard enough...it`s all we buy and it`s in every drug store in the city. I have seen apartments that are 4.5 tatami mats...smaller than what the first girl is living in. She talks of Japan like it`s the same everywhere...it...

Silvery...like, similar to, the Guild photographed above.

all the sen I have and have seen over here has a silvery look to it, the weight has varied as well, some was heavier while some was lighter.

Yeah, in my experience, buyers want to know what they`re buying.

Yes open on Sundays....there are lots of churches in this city, I see gaijin Mormons on bicycles almost everyday....so theres just about everything here. Thinking of joining a cult?...lots of those around too.

Pick up some catalogues while you`re in the shops....look for Player magazines too, they always have ads from shops.

Thats why I said, don`t hesitate if you see something....I learned that lesson early on. Sometimes I go months without seeing anything up here so luck plays a huge role for me, right place right time kind of think...and I have been extremely lucky over the years. About 30 million people in the...

From what I have seen in Japan, the ESPartos and telESPos were early, 1970`s, they published some special catalogues during their anniversary year a while ago that had a pictorial history of their guitars and those models were among the earliest.

I`m not in Tokyo, I`m just talking about what shops offer on guitars I brought to them....I can`t speak for the entire country, I don`t pretend to know everything about that...could be different in big cities though I`d be surprised if it were. I was offered 10% of the sale price...not...

Trouble is, every guitar player on the planet now knows about Ochanomizu so competition is fierce, you`ll have to be lucky and not hesitate if you see something, waiting even a day can be too late. I have had amazing luck in the second hand shops like Hard Off and 2nd Street. I often haggle...

I own some History guitars, in 2004 they were still using Timeless Timber, only in the past couple of years have they changed to Heritage wood...probably the same timbers found at the bottom of the Great Lakes but maybe provided by a different company, not sure why they changed the name...

British humor, I love it...I grew up with it...that and a French Canadian father who came out with his own brand of English.