@John_E I like your way of thinking. I’m not sure my wife will agree next time I head to Japan with her, but I’ll give it a go. What’s the worst that can happen?
If you head over that way, I think you personally might struggle to not buy a sax. I walked past one shop and it was wall-to-wall saxophones!
I actually was pretty impressed that he resisted the Kurosawa saxophone annex. I assume he went without me 
John “only” took home two basses, but one was a hyper-rare unicorn that I had never seen in the wild until that day, and then he and I saw two. For context, only 50 were ever made, 20 years ago. I was gobsmacked.
@howard Only two? Pffft, amateur
Joking aside, what bass was that? I have two watches, one of which is one of only 200 and the other is one of 300. But one in 50? That’s something else. Did you buy the other one?
@FiftyTzent Have a look at their website and Instagram pages. Keep in mind what I wrote above in that not everything they have is on the website.
They really are fantastic people to deal with, which reminds me - I need to write them a review.
Actually - no.
I collect vintage Conn saxes made in USA. They are rarer over there and incredibly expensive.
I did buy a new Yanagisawa Bari from Japan but not in my trip, had it shipped. Saved $5000 door to door over buying in U.S.
@John_E Ah ok, fair enough. I knew you had a thing for saxes, but didn’t know it was that specific. $5000 is an incredible saving. I paid pretty much half price for my Fender P - about £1,080 as opposed to the £2,049 over here. I plan on heading back over at some point to pick up a Fender J in Dark Knight.
@John_E Both lovely basses, but that Fernandes is something else! Where was that made?
One for him, one for you.
This is typical Welsh behaviour, but it’s not your fault it’s how you were raised 
I think China - bass is nothing special, more of a novelty but super fun
I was strong tempted. It’s a TRB-JP2 electronics set in a SBV body, the signature bass of the bass player in Terry and the Blue Jeans, a famous surf rock act from the '60s here. Terry (Takeshi Terauchi) played the guitar version which looks the same.
I’m a sucker for the SBV’s, love them.
Choosing to play a left handed bass has saved me tons of money over the years, since there is such a limited supply. This thread seems to want to try and put those savings to good use.
I was actually really surprised by Taniguchi’s selection- guitars too. Very good selection of high quality instruments, not just one-offs or random “the little bit we could find”. Like it would still be a competitive shop with that range in right handed instruments even without serving the lefty niche.
@Barney you mean “I goroo cos my da always did, and his da, and his da before him.” Something like that?
@howard I was thinking along the same lines. When I look on websites here to see what lefties they have in stock, it often seems to be a disproportionate amount of Hofner violin types, the odd Fender and a bunch of ‘last turkey on the shelf’ types. Taniguchi have some very desirable stock.
