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Am I wrong or some Japanese webshops are selling these models online? After seen 360C63 I can't sleep at night
I'm just curious about it, but unfortunetely I don't understand one word of japanese language...

....this is all the Japanese most people need to know:

Another concept, toward the end, here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=393167&start=195

So, would the LH version of the 1999 have the period-correct, reversed headstock?
Still aching for that 4001V64...or V68...or so...
340-375V59?
Pearl colors?
White/BT w/ ebony 'board?
4000V57?
Mapleglo-burst with walnut trim?
4013/7V42 with 11 humbuckers?

...whoops, looks like the idea machine is malfunctioning...

Uh...sorry...those last two don't belong here. Thought I was on another thread. Duh.

Rick2005 wrote:I'm just curious about it, but unfortunetely I don't understand one word of japanese language...

Any link? I know an japanese-american who might know what it says... I'm curious as well! The MB coloured one... ooh...

The link is in the first post of this thread.

jingle_jangle wrote:Japan only, and wait till you see the fifth!

So no fifth model or what?

THERE...ARE...FOUR...MODELS!!

RutleDirk wrote:THERE...ARE...FOUR...MODELS!!

THIRD...POST...IN:

jingle_jangle wrote:Japan only, and wait till you see the fifth!

sloop_john_b wrote: THIRD...POST...IN:

jingle_jangle wrote:Japan only, and wait till you see the fifth!

I know...
That was an obscure Star Trek reference...

Wow. If I read my yen correctly, all of these are over $5,000 in USD.

RutleDirk wrote:

sloop_john_b wrote: THIRD...POST...IN:

jingle_jangle wrote:Japan only, and wait till you see the fifth!

I know...
That was an obscure Star Trek reference...

Chain of Command Pt II, an exchange between the recently knighted Sir Patrick Stewart and David Warner - two excellent Brit actors

stevebasshead wrote:Chain of Command Pt II, an exchange between the recently knighted Sir Patrick Stewart and David Warner - two excellent Brit actors

Yes, indeed!
Now, how many new models do you see?

RutleDirk wrote:Wow. If I read my yen correctly, all of these are over $5,000 in USD.

Yep: The economic law of scarcity is in play here. RIC built only 60 units of each model. "60" units was selected as the production number because it was the dsitributor Shinsedo's 60th anniversary IIRC.

The cost per unit could arguably be lower were the models to be a regular production guitar(more units produced =less cost per unit, all other factors remaining equal), though probably not by a whole lot if so, since it's a VRI model, and more folks buy regular production models than VRI models.

If produced, and the cost were indeed lower, the price of a 360 C63 might be slightly less than the price of the 360/12 C63, by about the same percentage as the difference in price between the 660 and 660/12, or 381 and 381/12 models.

I could be wrong about that, but at the very least, a six string model might be less by the amount of of the cost of six tuners, the time/labor cost of routing channels into a 12 string headstock, and the difference in cost between a 6 string set and a 12 sring set.

In any case, I am not in the guitar biz, so I don't know for sure; it's a guess, based on other 6/12 VRI models, and recalling my study of Economics.

Of course, given the number of double bound fetishist lemmings such as myself, RIC could probably charge whatever they want and I'd buy at least one or two, especially if it came in a flashy solid color, in Eric Behring's one-off greeburst, or any or the 4004 trans finishes.

Have I put everyone to sleep yet?