Fujigen now making their own branded guitars?

magentaplacenta · Nov 6, 2005

http://cgi.ebay.com/FUJIGEN-Les-Paul-Type-SUPER-RARE-HARDSHELL-CASE-JAPAN_W0QQitemZ7364059773QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

20 century boy · Nov 6, 2005

Yes, for a while now. In fact, they allways did but now they put a name on it...

do you know their custom shop?

http://www.fujigen.co.jp/

magentaplacenta · Nov 6, 2005

Yeah, I never knew they branded their own line, though. This is the first one I've ever seen.

sneakyjapan · Nov 6, 2005

they use lumber that was found at the bottom of the great lakes on the border of Canada and America for necks on some models...they call it timeless timber, and they also have what they call the circle fretting system where the frets are not straight across the fingerboard but rather arced, it`s almost imperceptible but they say it improves intonation up and down the neck. Their high end series costs as much as Gibsons here in Japan and they are lovely.

magentaplacenta · Nov 6, 2005

How would frets effect intonation? Intonation is string length, frets are perpendicular to string length. Any ideas?

sneakyjapan · Nov 7, 2005

something to do with fretting notes. don`t work for the company, thats what the shop staff told me.

stratmoto · Nov 7, 2005

http://www.fretwave.com/pages/whyworks.htm

The fretwave system sounds like it is similar, but different. This may help explain it.

Peter

sneakyjapan · Nov 7, 2005

thats right, the same logic FujuGen is using. though I`ve seen tons of them, I`ve yet to play any.

magentaplacenta · Nov 7, 2005

Wow, thanks for the link, interesting stuff. Never seen a guitar fretted like that.

villager · Nov 10, 2005

the history brand is fugigen custom shop...only the GH models use timeless timber

http://www.shimamura.co.jp/storebrand/eggh.html

sneakyjapan · Nov 10, 2005

made by the same people.

orvilleowner · Nov 16, 2005

Fujigen's Circle Fretting System is a very slight adjustment. Check out the curvature of these frets. It isn't much, and it gets even less at the 20th fret.

and here's a full body picture

japanstrat · Nov 15, 2006

History is not FujiGens brand it is Shimamura Gakki's brand.
FujiGen's brands are FujiGen, Heartfield and FgN.

http://www.shimamura.co.jp/english/04our_brands/index.html

Shimamura order the guitars from FujiGen and then sell them in their 80 stores across Japan.

http://www.shimamura.co.jp/english/01about_us/index.html

This is how it goes with Japanese market only setups.

A chain of stores or a wholesaler orders guitars to be made by FujiGen or Terada or Tokai etc.

In the case of Fender, Kanda Shokai or Yamano order guitars from Tokai (used to be FujiGen).

In the case of the Orvilles Yamano ordered guitars from FujiGen and Terada except for the K series which were ordered by Kanda Shokai.

20 century boy · Nov 15, 2006

japanstrat said:
Shimamura order the guitars from FujiGen and then sell them in their 80 stores across Japan.

Well, now, they probably don't anymore.

Also, Tokai is only one of the factories that make fender japan. There are topics about this.

japanstrat · Nov 15, 2006

Daita Gakki makes Fender as well according to the Tokai President.
Is this them
http://www.daito-gakki.co.jp/
but maybe it's a misprint and Daita Gakki should be Dyna Gakki.
Dyna Gakki makes more sense.

What I mean is Shimamura own the History brand not FujiGen.
Shimamura just gets the History guitars made at FujiGen.
Shimamura might use Tokai or someone else to make History guitars in the future, who knows.
It depends where they decide to get them made.
Fender Japan (Yamano, Kanda Shokai) have changed makers over the years.

togps · Nov 15, 2006

japanstrat, p.m. sent

20 century boy · Nov 15, 2006

what what???? we want to know what is said in the backstage!!! :-?

togps · Nov 15, 2006

20 century boy, hello. Haha, I understand your worries.

My pm to japanstrat is already one week old. He does not fetched it from his forum mailbox. This is just a reminder. Has nothing to do with this thread.
Regards to Paris!

EunosFD · Nov 15, 2006

I've been eyeing up some current Fujigens lately & certainly wouldn't mind picking up a GF-FH6 (basically a semi-hollow PRS/336'ish type). Ikebe usually has some nice ones on display on their website:

http://www.ikebe-gakki.com/shopping_20.php?state=1&cate=1&s_cate=1&brand=79

One of them even has a solid rosewood neck (in the PRS/Thorn/botique vein) and the woods on all of them seem to be quite nice. Even the Tele-esque model (SP-II) looks really nice & the price is reasonable too, but I'm not sure how big the neck is (I prefer HUGE necks). There are also some "Puzzle" topped models which have a sort of mosaic top comprised of different pieces of a variety of woods of different colors. Very cool!

EunosFD · Nov 15, 2006

Ok, found one of the "puzzle" (or "pazzle" as they say on here; language barrier issue i suspect

) designed Fujigens on Digimart:

http://www.digimart.net/gk_detail.do?instrument_id=DS00203196

More pics here:

http://www.j-guitar.com/sp/sea/view_detail.cgi?pid=10650173

It reminds me a bit of the Conklin "melted top" finishes they do, but MUCH less expensive. Definitely unique.

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