Kawai Winston 449 1964-1965 Sunburst

This Winston 449 can be almost classified as excellent, but has some minor nicks, scratches, tiny scuffs only visible if one tries to find them. A very looking clean guitar. A relic. Never find one like this in a long time.

Comes with complete original case and a vintage leather strap with brass buckle and strap extensions.

The Winston 449s were the last guitars to feature the Kawai pickups used on the early Hound Dog Taylor models. This one has a working truss rod adjustable at the heel. Complete functioning and working tremolo arm. Electronics checked and 100% working.

Clean sound with barely audible noise from the pickups.

The Winston is plug and play ready.

The guitar was given a pro setup for best playability:

-string/bridge action set
-new Ernie Ball strings .10-.46 gauge
-pickup height adjusted
-neck/frets oiled and polished
-pickups measure neck/2.7k, bridge/5.3k
-chrome hardware cleaned and polished to remove oxidation
-original knobs cleaned
-only volume pot replaced with a 250k ohm pot
-new Switchcraft input jack