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I have two at the moment, plus a Japanese JV series Squier which I LURVS!!!

 

These are mine, but I'm doing a Monterey Pop tribtue strat using the neck from the wood-finished one and the body from the vintage white one... should be done in two or three weeks.

 

On to the pics:

 

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And this one has a body from a MIJ Fender:

 

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Please sign me up. I own a 96 CIJ 72 Tele Thinline reissue and LOVE IT. Got it off a trade on Craigslist for a Les Paul Studio Vintage Mahogany that I just never liked at all. Compared to the MIM version of the same guitar the CIJ smokes it in regard to playability and sound.

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I think they switched from 'Made In Japan' to 'Crafted In Japan' in 1996.

 

I don't know that there is a decided difference in 'quality' of the CIJs vs the MIJs, but having played probably 50 MIJs and 20 or so CIJs, I can't think of an MIJ that I didn't almost instantly love where the CIJs feel a bit more generic. Not bad, but a lot of the MIJs have a way of feeling very old and worn in.

 

:idk:

 

For example, I had the hots for one of the black and chrome CIJ Jazzmasters without the trem and the covered humbuckers. I played 5 of them in town and I actively disliked every single one of them.

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