A true 100% made in a single country anything, anymore, is nearly 99.99999% impossible.lape0019 wrote:I think that is a good point. JDM does not mean made in Japan. It mean made FOR the Japanese Domestic Market. The mystique of these products is that they usually seem to perform better than the stuff for the USDM (which again does not mean made in the USA). And for he most part, most of their stuff just looks better!
Assembled, designed, put together in complete form...okay.
FWIW, while less "pretty", most custom rods will nearly always out-perform factory rods any day of the week. The one differentiator is that most JDM blanks (and sadly now, ShimLoomis blanks) are not made available to custom builders.