DaveWW
Well-known member
Got my new Bacchus-68V yesterday from Ishibashi
The shop were great and I highly recommend them. I snapped it up and went away for a short holiday and they wouldn't let me even try to pay until I came back. The condition of the guitar if anything is better that described. I was going to buy a Pignose to make it up to the combined 50,000 yen value the ask for export but the shipping for both items was, I thought, too much. Anyway not sure they'd do this again but they let me buy the SG on it's own evn though it was well under the value they ask for foreign buyers.
The guitar itself is in nice natural relic condition. the headstock got a couple of dings that it could do with out but other than that it's like a nice pair of worn shoes. I really like the oil finish. It's not sticky at all and the neck is a smooth and dry as a babies bum. I'm surprised how thin the neck is. It's quite wide but very slim 60s style unlike any Bacchus I've tried before which have always been pretty chunky.
Sound wise I haven't cranked it up yet but plays nicely and the tone is much woodier than I would've thought. Pickups are the original 2 VH-59s and everything seems to be original as well.
A nice pick of my small but perfectly formed Bacchi collection to finish
The shop were great and I highly recommend them. I snapped it up and went away for a short holiday and they wouldn't let me even try to pay until I came back. The condition of the guitar if anything is better that described. I was going to buy a Pignose to make it up to the combined 50,000 yen value the ask for export but the shipping for both items was, I thought, too much. Anyway not sure they'd do this again but they let me buy the SG on it's own evn though it was well under the value they ask for foreign buyers.
The guitar itself is in nice natural relic condition. the headstock got a couple of dings that it could do with out but other than that it's like a nice pair of worn shoes. I really like the oil finish. It's not sticky at all and the neck is a smooth and dry as a babies bum. I'm surprised how thin the neck is. It's quite wide but very slim 60s style unlike any Bacchus I've tried before which have always been pretty chunky.
Sound wise I haven't cranked it up yet but plays nicely and the tone is much woodier than I would've thought. Pickups are the original 2 VH-59s and everything seems to be original as well.
A nice pick of my small but perfectly formed Bacchi collection to finish