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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Found another (couple of) Kawai guitars!

There will be more about this posted on my Kawai guitars site (http://www.kawaiguitars.com/) but I thought I'd add a quick post here as the blog as a different readership ...

I never thought that I'd find one of these anywhere



It' s a Kawai "Rock 'n' Roll Star".  Dates from the late 1970s / early 1980s.  I've never seen one before, and if I didn't happen to have copies of the Kawai guitar catalogues from the period, I'd never have known that it existed.

This guitar has had a bit of a hard, working, life, with plenty of scars, dings and dents.  But the neck is undamaged and perfectly straight, and everything still works fine.  It has the feature Kawai headstock (albeit a slightly damaged one) used on their guitars of that period.




And the second acquisition is this Kawai Aquarius.  Dates from the early 1980s ...



The twin humbuckers are coil-tapped via a push/pull on the tone knob.  It's a nice enough guitar but isn't quite as "special" as the other Kawais.  This one has been well cared for as there's barely a mark on it.  I've seen a few for sale recently ... so I bought myself one to find out what they're like.  I'll find out as soon as I put some strings on it!

1 comment:

bertram said...

hello tony, think of sending me something about your guitar for the aquarius blog!