Stu2820

I agree they are great guitars. Those J-45 standards with the red spruce tops are absolute cannons. Search ebay for the honeyburst or triburst. There's 30-40 of them, all in Japan. They appear on Reverb.com as well.

Naa. There's literally hundreds of them, "pre-owned" AKA new but discounted.

Especially on ebay and especially acoustics, there's so many new and "used" (but actually new) Gibson guitars in Japan. Is this some Japanese business person buying up at cost, stock that dealers elsewhere in the world can't shift?