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well the new pics sure look like an EC model, and therefore not low end...I was looking at one just today in the Rock Inn and think it was about 80,ooo yen...didn`t look real close. I`ve know a little about that shop you mention, I used to visit their web site but it`s been sometime, I found them a bit more expensive than here so I never bought from them though I did see some interesting guitars...anyways...now that it appears to be an EC, I`d spring for a new battery and see if thats the problem, but it sounds to me like a simple electrical repair and frankly if the shop sold it in that condition they should fix it, I`d insist on it if it were me...I only have one FJ with lace sensors...a custom edition tele type that is outstanding, it`s the 1992 TLG-110LS 10th anniversary model and I have never had to look at the electronics so I`m not familiar with how the sensors are wired. So if you like the neck on that strat and they`ll fix it, you won`t lose any money should you bring it home and sell it at a future date, thats a pretty nice model though to me where a Japanese Fender fits into the pecking order us more important than when a model was made...except of course for the very first run JVs, every one of those I own is nice...but FJ made top end guitars from the beginning and it`s not like they forgot how to make great guitars, even today they make very high end stuff like the top of the line DiMarzio series...and in the `90s they made excellent guitars and some of mine I think are every bit as nice as the $5000.oo F/USAs in shops I see and thats no BS...my ExTrad and custom editions are at least as good as my team built F/USA custom shops ...and thats not to say ALL FJs from the `80s are great...they ain`t, by the middle of the decade the line-up had expanded quite a bit and there was a lot of average stuff, but when ya find a good one they can be very good.
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