Magister Ludi

Nope-The two Fenders are both the new Japanese Aerodyne Specials which replaced all of the old configurations as of november last year. They have completely new (and lovely) pickups,gotoh tuners,babicz full contact bridges and that very very high standard finish that Fender Japan are known for,they sound nice too-necks are yum! I have a domestic and export model of the old Aero-I think these are well on par,if not better,maybe Big Daddy Fender in the USA has seen a big sales oportunity and are going to market these a bit more aggressively? If you can get over the lack of a pickguard,and the shock of the price/quality aspect vs US/MEX-then I think for a certain kind of player,these are the dogs doodads.

Pickguards-Pah !

Duh! search skills on the fritz agin....Having read the makers site and specs for this-it would maybe it be a little pointless? They show that their premium waza product at a gazillion dollars $259 is in fact the one they want you to have, I like the waza-its been a good little option to that headphone problem-after phil's stuff I lost interest & then lo and behold the unupdateable waza appears & saves the day! Now how to integrate that bloody orba........

Couldn't see it on the Jungle site-had the 'KAT' vers at £79 tho,but no 'BW' vers. The makers site you list does offer the waza air at £56 plus shipping-as you say - its not much use for your reqs (and prolly mine on that basis) however I'm gonna see if I can interface it with my Orba mk2-You never know........lol

mine,as of last year-its a beaut….