Vintage RARE 1965 Kawai made Prestige Solid Body Dual Pickup Pro Setup New Strings Original Deluxe Soft Shell Case

Today, Lawman Guitars is Presenting...

A beautiful UBER RARE 1965 Prestige, made by Kawai in Japan Electric Guitar. What a time capsule, and it plays and sounds great! . It comes complete with the original Deluxe Blue Plush Soft Shell Case...

This is one of the Prestige Kawai Guitars made in the mid 1960's. No numbers to identify it but my Japanese Guitar expert assures me they were made two years. 1965 and 1966 ... so we are going with that. ...All original .. Its in great condition... just superficial dings and scratches. It has awesome playing action and it sound really cool. The pickups are very powerful. I was not expecting that with this guitar. One note...the pickups don't align with the strings. The Pickup work as they should. It was probably a friday afternoon guitar. Sightly misaligned but still working great.

Incredible shape for a 1965 guitar. Original Pickups, nut, Raised Prestiqe Metal Logo, Tuners, bridge, whammy tailpiece are still with it. Even the whammy bar! Those are always missing!!

Here's some info regarding Kawai and Prestiqe Guitars...

The Kawai Co was one of the true behemoths of the Japanese Guitar Market. The company was the King of Export guitars, producing hundreds of models with a massive number of brand names.

In 1965, just prior to acquiring Teisco guitars, The Kawai Company was showing over 200 different guitar models with over 50 different brand names in America alone! Some of Kawai, biggest customers were Sears, Woolworths, and Eatons in Canada as well as many smaller department stores.

Kawai used brand names such as Apollo, Decca, Domino, Ibanez, Kingston, Norma, Telestar, Beltone, Heit, Lindell, Noble, Prestige, Saturn, Truetone and Winston.

This cool guitar was completely checked out to insure all the controls work. No Truss Rod on this one but the neck is nice and straight. Jeff the Tech set it up with a new set of Dr Ducks 10 guage strings...It plays great! The nut measures 1 3/4 inches and it has a 24 1/2 inch scale neck. It has 20 hardly played frets and it only weighs 5 lbs 10 ozs. Cool little guitar!

Check out the original Soft Shell Case...As nice as the guitar!. Very cool...fits it great all the latches, hinges, back restraint strap, handle and are still with this case. Only the accessory box is missing. Cool blue Deluxe Plush interior... Awesome case for your very cool unusual Vintage Guitar!! See pics.

Now this guitar is uber cool but old and vintage so it is sold as-is no returns.. Thanks for respecing that.

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