Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Australian rare guitar imports

Posted by Jon in • Guitar Sites

ImportStrings.com
One thing I noticed recently whilst looking to purchase a new guitar was that here in Australia the choice is limited in comparison to the US and the UK. I also quickly realised that the pricing of anything but standard guitars were somewhat over-inflated which is why I eventually settled for importing a guitar from the US. Well someone else has noticed and started a business to address this situation. Now if you are just looking to buy a standard American Strat or Les Paul then this site probably isn’t going to be of as much interest, what this nicely designed blog does is showcase a selection of pristine quality rare guitars that you simply don’t see in Australian guitar stores such as this Ibanez J-Custom RG8470Z RS which uses top grade woods and hardware as well as DiMarzio Air Norton, Blue Velvet and Tone Zone pickups.

This is just one example of the guitars on sale, there is also a George Lynch Kamikaze and a limited edition custom shop Gibson ZV which is number 95 out of 100. Each guitar has a rating of up to 5 stars which means new condition to give you an idea of what you are looking at, also any defects or damage is listed in the description as well as a full spec list. Now obviously this list is updated all the time so I advise you to subscribe to the rss feed to see when new guitars are available or have been sold. The blogging platform actually works well with this kind of business!

If only I had known about this site before I ordered my JS1000!

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on 09/24 at 10:18 AM

I also ended up importing a guitar from the states via eBay - in my case even with shipping it was about half the price of buying locally!

Some beautiful guitars here for sale, except for the bizzarro Gibson ZV (perhaps you might question my taste though, the guitar I imported was a Jackson Jenna Jameson V)

Jon on 09/24 at 11:11 AM

Yeah I’m not a fan of the ZV either, but it does suit Zakk!

Michael on 09/24 at 05:02 PM

Nice find! You’re right about the blogging platform being a good choice for this kind of business. It reminds me of this one U.S website that uses a similar blogging setup to sell unique crafts. Buggered if I can remember the name (but that’s not really the point anyway).

Shame they remove the price once sold. I can understand why they remove it, but it’d be nice to see what some of them sold for.

Jon on 09/24 at 05:14 PM

Thats true it would be nice to see the sale price after it sold, but if you add it to your rss feed reader you will know when new guitars pop up to see the asking price!

accountant jobs on 09/28 at 04:41 PM

Thanks, it was certainly a great read for me, I’ll be looking forward for more of your articles.

San Antonio Attorney on 10/03 at 02:13 AM

Thanks for the post. Looking forward for more!

Las Estacas Morelos on 10/05 at 02:36 PM

Your decision of importing a guitar from the US was well worth it after all.

-M from Mexico

James on 11/17 at 03:14 PM

I bought the charvel model 6 they had on that site.. it’s a killer guitar and the guy was super easy to deal with

Jon on 11/17 at 04:53 PM

I didn’t realise you were based in Aus too James! smile

on 11/19 at 01:38 PM

yeah i’m from melbourne.. so i know what it’s like to always get annoyed when surfing guitar sites and seeing how much less americans and japanese are paying for gear raspberry

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