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FGN Guitars has an online store where the brand sells its guitars and accepts orders for its Custom Shop.

During the busy periods, Fujigen employed up to 500 people. The production of electric guitars in 2017-2018 is 120 to 130 per day, of which 90% are for subcontracts (Ibanez for example) and the remaining 10% for its own brand FGN. Finally, the company owns its own brand of guitars and basses, the FGN Guitars, which it manufactures and distributes worldwide. Fujigen also inspects Gibson guitars distributed in Japan and makes guitars and basses for many brands. It is a subcontracting company that manufactures car dashboards for Toyota, tools and utensils, Ibanez guitars and basses (J.Custom and Prestige) and G & L. The former name of the company Fujigen Gakki was changed in April 1989. today is a musical instrument manufacturer based in Matsumoto-shi, Hirata-e, Nagano Province, Japan. We are not told who said this, so it's pretty meaningless.Fujigen Gakki (гѓ• г‚ё г‚І гѓі жҐЅ жҐЅ е™Ё е™Ё), which is called Fujigen Co., Ltd. I think that is a very accurate description.' 'I inquired in Japan what these were and was told it was - Custom Shop before there was Custom Shop. The only thing we have here to back up the Custom Shop claim is your comment: So why not simply call them 'special orders'? That would make sense as it's what Fender do - they make FSRs - Factory Special Runs - but they don't claim that they are 'Custom Shop' guitars because they were not made in the Custom Shop! And apparently, from what you have said, neither Greco nor the manufacturer did either. That is not what I would call a Custom Shop. Along with guitars from several other brands too, I assume. They were (apparently) special order guitars with certain different features made in the same factory as all the other guitars of that brand were made. Were what you call 'Custom Shop' guitars made in a specific, separate factory or sub-part of the Fujigen factory? The answer seems to be 'no' so that isn't what any reasonable person would call a Custom Shop. By contrast you seem to have an interpretation that is so wide & vague as to be meaningless! I wouldn't say 'narrow', I would say 'specific'. ESP started doing the same back then as well.

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So better woods, finishes, pickups and construction by their top luthiers were available through Project Series models.

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So they did full custom order or could order Project Series models which were built in batches to a higher spec than normal production models. Diagram in bottom left shows how that process worked and also refers to a Project Series shop, which at this point would have been at Fujigen.: The orders would be held until they had orders for about 40 guitars, then they would be built together. They described them as a line of built to order guitars that allowed minor changes, rather than full one off custom. They required a special order, from dealers they called 'Greco Special Agent' or had to be ordered direct through Kanda Shokai, Greco's parent company. Project Series, were a line of specific models above the normal catalog, but not one-off builds. Mid 70's they made full one-off bespoke guitars if you wanted them:

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