I have friends who are Nashville studio cats. They told me, many years ago, that they were all buying MIJ Teles, because they were so much better than the American made guitars. I gotta tell you, I don’t know what wood the Japanese used, but far superior to US made guitars, And when I put on the 60’s Maple neck? Wow! It’s a beat up frat band guitar, with “Billy Goat” scratched into the body, but it’s famous in Cleveland!
Now you’re killing me. I remember passing up cheap MIJ Fenders simply because they were MIJ! Oh, the many pains of getting older...