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Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Twinfan on September 25, 2007, 01:32:49 PM: Orville Flying V - £2500!!!!!!

eBay auction (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230175203570&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D230175203570%26fvi%3D1)
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Crazy_Joe on September 25, 2007, 01:41:08 PM: That's a really really nice V, but i would never pay that much for it!
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Will on September 25, 2007, 02:00:56 PM: from the title I was thinking £1500 at max

Sorry, but I don't even see the appeal in it.
although probably plays, feels and sounds nice :)
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Philly Q on September 25, 2007, 02:04:09 PM: I saw a Bacchus custom shop LP going for about £1,600 a couple of weeks ago, but that trumps it!
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Ted on September 25, 2007, 03:48:11 PM: Looks like a collectors guitar, but are orvilles that collectable?
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: gingataff on September 25, 2007, 04:51:51 PM: Some of the official Japanese Zemaitis guitars (not the licensed Grecos) are about 9 grand new.
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: PhilKing on September 25, 2007, 06:08:13 PM: It's not even a Hendrix Flying V (the inlays are wrong if it is just black, or the swirls are missing for dot inlays!).

I paid about $1,500 each for my Bacchus Zemaitis clones, but £2,500 is over $5,000! I would buy this if I was looking:

http://www.gbase.com/Stores/Gear/GearDetails.aspx?Item=1651252
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: HTH AMPS on September 25, 2007, 10:38:55 PM: Are those Orville Vee's really worth that much or is that guy just dreaming? I was eyeing an off-white one of these a couple of years back for only £350 - it had the lyre trem just like that one, same feature just off-white rather than black.

:twisted:
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Will on October 08, 2007, 10:32:08 PM: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tokai-Love-Rock-LS380-Electric-Guitar-Heritage-Cherry_W0QQitemZ280160308715QQihZ018QQcategoryZ112670QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

this ones close
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: Crazy_Joe on October 08, 2007, 10:52:39 PM: Quote from: Will
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tokai-Love-Rock-LS380-Electric-Guitar-Heritage-Cherry_W0QQitemZ280160308715QQihZ018QQcategoryZ112670QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

this ones close

The spec on that les paul is amazing, all of it is top quality, honduras mahogany!! *drools*
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: genocidal tendencies on October 09, 2007, 02:55:41 AM: £2500? Am I missing something? The auction price is $2800, which would be about £1350?

On the subject of expensive japanese guitars, I'd kill for one of these:

http://www.fernandes.co.jp/ravelle/jpc/ravelle_jpc_obl_index.html

Japanese price converts to £1600, so about £20k when customs are done with it...
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 09, 2007, 02:59:22 AM: Well, for what I've listened it's like a custom made in JP, better than Gibson... then, okay... But i've never saw one and won't see in my country...
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 09, 2007, 03:08:51 AM: Wow, not about the $20000...

I believe only things like that PRS with a dragon's head in the body could get this price...
Title: Is this the most expensive Japanese guitar ever????
Post by: mikeluke on October 09, 2007, 01:52:02 PM: As pointed out - the Tokai LS-380 is actually more than the Flying V, which is not even an Orville by Gibson btw - lovely Les Paul-alike but two and a half grand is lot of money....