This is my favorite guitar for long time from my college day, in other word, is my guitar in right meaning.

I was a guitarist in a band when in a college.  I decided to buy special guitar as a memory of the last band activity which would be ended at college graduation.  In 1985, I ordered this guitar at 250,000JPY.  It was too expensive for a poor student but I repaid by loan by a part-time work.  Then I never expected to be a odd collector in the future.

I selected Stratocaster model simply because I loved it, and also because the other guitarist of my group played Les Paul(Tokai LS-200).  

The ordering details were alder one piece body, lacquer finish, cream color, S-S-H arrangement of pickups(Seymour Duncan SSL-4×2 and AH-1 Allan Holdsworth model.....changed to P.J.Marx later), no tone knobs, Floyd Rose bridge, birds eye neck with 22F, semi-jumbo frets, jack located on body contour.  I exchanged SSL-4 recently because of breaking of wire by rust.

Please look its terrific birds eye on the neck.  Yutaka Sato, a chief repairman of First Touch in Akita, says that it’s very hard to get a neck like this from now on.

This is really a guitar for my lifetime, but I am not so young to drive Floyd Rose aggressively. 3.81kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.26)