This guitar was made by PGM which is pretty famous hand crafted guitar builder. I got this guitar which has the Joe Barden pickups. We are Japanese distrbutor of Joe Barden PU (currently JBE).
According to seller, this guitar was made for Joe Barden Brand at that
time. Well, I have heard that they are showing Joe Barden brand guitars
at NAMM show several years ago. Before, I have a contact with Mr. Barden,
but I didn't contact him for a long time.
Maybe current management didn't know anything about this guitar.
Joe Barden Pickup is developped as noiseless single tone PU. These are
Humbucking type PU, but the tone is pretty much like
signle PU tone. We have been importing JBE pickup almost 10 years. I think
JBE is pretty nice tone PUs.
https://jbepickups.com/product/s-styles/#44a3b0d94a746eb9a
As a distributor here, I just thought we had better keep it several years
ago. Then, I recently started to check the guitar, and adjusted neck, tremolo
unit and etc... Now it is ready for playing. The body is very good conditioned
white Ash. The neck is good and straight.
I do not have an intention to sell this guitar. I would keep it as demonstration
guitar here for my visitors.
It is pretty easy for me to set up ST with JBE PU here. We have enough
stock. But I keep this guitar becasue it should be proto type of
Joe Barden guitar, anyway.
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