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Anyone seen the NEW jansen guitars -as on sale at Mussic planet greenlane _ made in Korea ? Sorry , no emoticons used in this post .

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I think Simon may have....
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Just searched jansen on this site. Found no result mentioning a Simon. A few posts about Douche, I mean Denche , the greedy out of touch Jansen hog. Music planet didnt know much about the "Invader" in their shop except that it was probably from Korea.
'm surprised nobody has any interest in the new jansens.

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Gator Ace wrote:Just searched jansen on this site. Found no result mentioning a Simon. A few posts about Douche, I mean Denche , the greedy out of touch Jansen hog. Music planet didnt know much about the "Invader" in their shop except that it was probably from Korea.
'm surprised nobody has any interest in the new jansens.
BG talkin' bout this:

http://www.nzguitars.com/forum/viewtopi ... 34#p680534

nzsimon1 is the Jansen importer/distributor in NZ

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I`ve played two original Invaders and all I can say is they are utterly horrible.

I do like the beatmaster quite a bit. the new ones have only slight differences from the original.

just go and play one
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.

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I just don't find then interesting. Yet another Asian made Fender style guitar.

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We are having them made in China by a reputable factory as close to original as possible. Using good woods and custom pickups
The manufacturing is being overseen by Alan Entwistle who used to work for us in the 70's and came to us from Burns in the UK . He now makes custom pickups under his own name. We had a few guitarists try them out and give us their opinion before going ahead with the exercise. For the price they are very good and are selling well worldwide

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bbrunskill wrote:I just don't find then interesting. Yet another Asian made Fender style guitar.
while they are a "low cost factory guitar" they do have some points of interest.

I cant think of another instrument that mates the fender shape and single coil pickups with a gibson scale length. They also have switching that goes outside the fender norms. I also don't think the pickups are strictly speaking a "Fender copy".
I haven't seen the new ones yet but Ill certainly check them out ,if for no other reason, because they speak to a particular piece of New Zealand heritage.

My only real dislike of the original Invader was the tremolo...but given the renewed interest in bigsby and non-strat style fender trems maybe there will be fans out there.
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I say good luck, Simon. It's resurrecting a Kiwi icon. I've owned several Jansen instruments.
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I've had a brief unplugged play on the tele shaped one (Beatmaster?) First impression was a nice looking, well made instrument that felt good under the fingers.
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I didnt play the Invader I saw at MP for fear of being underwhelmed. The neck looked fatter than the Invaders i remembered ( Ive had 9 Invaders, 1 Beatmaster and still have 2 Jazz masters), but, strangely to me, the neck had binding down the edge. Aesthetically, they dont look like the real thing, especially with cheap telecaster knobs. I guess this is the "up-dated" made to a (low) price point version. Still, for all I know they could be a fantastic play and sound ...

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Denche has totally denched all Jansens for me,
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Good point. It's almost as though Dennis is actively trying to destroy Jansen's reputation.
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Just organised another 12 to Australia really pleased with how this is panning out. Many years ago the Surfari's did a song called Wipeout. The band did the song on a Jansen guitar which is now in the Hard Rock café in New Orleans. Anyway the band is still going so we sent the guitar player a New Jansen Invader and he is very happy with it.

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