Hisashi Imai

Strat style with 3 single coil pickups custom paint by Hisashi This is the first guitar Hisashi bought while he was in high school (1983); at the time, it was incredibly hard to find left-handed guitars so he had to settle on this guitar It guitar was originally sunburst as evidenced by photos of gigs in 1986. Hisashi eventually painted the body grey, as shown in the picture.

Modeled after the Les Paul style Custom paint by Hisashi This is the second guitar that Hisashi bought and he apparently bought it off a friend; it has been seen on stage as late as 1987

Custom paint by Hisashi (later a more professional version was created for him by Fernandes) this is probably what we could call Hisashi's first true main guitar; He acquired it in 1985 usage: can be seen in the music videos for "Dream or Truth", "Empty Girl", "Hyper Love", "Sexual XXXXX!" (1987); can also be seen in the Buck-Tick Live at the Live Inn (1987) live concert video; after a long absence from the public eye, Hisashi used it in the music video for "Keijijou Ryuusei" (2014)

pickups: 2 single coil controls: volume, tone, toggle switch usage: often, a main guitar at the time P-Project did sell copies of this as the Hisashi custom model; P-Project is owned by Fernandes usage: first acquired in late 1987 (He used his major label signing money to get this guitar or the label quickly helped him get an endorsement) can be seen in the music videos for "...In Heaven...", "Just One More Kiss", "Misty Zone", "Physical Neurose", "Romanesque", "Victims of Love" (1988)

Fernandes Telecaster TE-BT Proto black pickups: blade (front), humbucker (rear) usage: owned since around the time of major debut, rarely used live but this was the main guitar used to record Aku No Hana neck: maple, detachable neck joint fingerboard: rosewood, 24 frets body: basswood pickups: FGI Technology-T controls: volume, mini pickup selector switch, mini on-off switch bridge: combination-B