: : I have one as well, mine is orange, but emgs and gotoh hardware, im trying to find out if mine is usa too, awesome guitar, but cant find info on it anywhere. : Does anybody else in the world own one of these Red sunburst jobs. It is a beautiful Tele style guitar with Gibson style bride and EMG pickups. : : All the trimmings. Is it USA made is anybody interested in one?

I have a 1989 WT-90 which is a more plain version of the WT-100. The only difference is that the WT-90 has an opaque pearl white paint job instead of the translucent figured wood of the WT-100. You are right, these guitars are few and far between. I have only seen a couple of them. These guitars were built in Japan in 1988 and 89. They are made of western soft maple bodies and eastern hardrock maple necks and an ebony fingerboard with 24 frets. The tune-o-matic bridge and tuning keys are gold plated and it has string through body behind the bridge instead of a stop tailpiece. The pickups are active EMG style but say Washburn on the black covers. The guitar takes two 9 volt batteries to run the pickups. I bought mine used and dinged up, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It plays super smooth and fast and sounds awesome.

I was looking thru the paperwork and was looking on the web for some info. I bought mine in 1990, but I thought the humbuckers on it were Seymour Duncan’s- pretty sure. Great guitar. Why more guitars don’t use a battery preamp stage like the WT100 makes me wonder. Split coil humbuckers make it really a great all around sounding guitar.