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Originally Posted by PhatBoy
OK, what separates a red label f rom the rest?
PB
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good question. red labels have become highly collectable outside Japan over the last couple of years, here they just don`t get nearly as much attention...OK, a few models do...like the Brazilian FGs but otherwise not so much. There are pages and pages of used, new or old FGs on line here every day, I see em in shops everytime I go into them but honestly they just don`t sound nearly as good as the Dynamics so I never but any...that would change if I came across an FG-1500, 2000 or 2500...but now those sell for several thousand dollars but I`m in a smaller city and have got lucky before so who knows. For me to get a red label it would have to be better than the Dynamics I have and so far that hasn`t happened...it would be a lateral move instead of a step up. I have an early `70s light green FG-170 that I would have sworn was a solid top in the store and when I got it home and looked through my watchmakers loupe I saw it has a real thin top layer, thicker middle and real thin bottom layer, I knew the back and side were laminate so it turned out to be all laminate...sound OK but nothin` special.
Old Ls and LLs get a lot of bidders on line in Japan but we`re in a totally different league now. I think many believe if it was made in Japan it was good...sellers sure seem to believe that these days...but there was a lot of middle of the road guitars made in Japan too not to mention the low end brands...and evidently there were dozens. Still folks should play what they like en, no business of mine and if I come across a nice FG I`ll buy it but I`m so pleased with my Dynamics, true I`m comparing nylons to steel string FGs however since I got my first Dynamic all my steel strings must be feeling neglected, I`m really digging the nylon sound and fat neck Dynamics.
party on.