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Kimberly was made by a few different Japanese manufacturers in the 1960s including Fujigen Gakki, Teisco and eventually Kawai. By the late 60s most of the original Japanese designs had morphed into Fender and Gibson copies, which is when this instrument was most likely made by Kawai.
This is a very solid and well constructed Japanese version of an ES design, it is fully hollow with a block under the bridge. It delivers a robust and full sound from 15” wide, thinline body, and weighs only 6lbs 2oz.
I got it in surprisingly good condition- it has the regular amount of dings and dents from a guitar of this age, but doesn’t seem to have had that much use. It has no structural issues and appears to have been taken good care of.
The neck is one of those indestructible multi-laminated Japanese designs in great condition with the truss rod fully functional and without much adjustment even necessary- a very stable neck. I pulled the old frets, gave it a fresh 12” radius with new Jescar 47104 frets and a new 1-5/8” bone nut. The scale is 24-3/4” and the neck carve is a very comfortable medium D. New tuners matched with a new modern roller bridge / studs and inserts, and new GFS / XGP vintage-style trapeze tem, the action is low and easy, the intonation is spot on and the trem gives you a great shimmer.
The pickups are my handwound p90s with the sound you would expect… a new wiring harness with new Bournes pots for each pickup and a new 3-way toggle make a sweet guitar that plays and sounds like brand new.
This is a quality guitar now better than ever, set-up as
perfect as it can be with easy low action and capable of amazing raw P90 tones
that can beat any ES around the track.
No International shipping - lower USA 48 states only.
Set up for .010 - .046 strings
Gig bag included
24-2/4” scale
12” radius
1-5/8” bone nut
Jescar 47104 nickel fret
Medium “D” profile
Malinoski handwound P90 pickups
Modern roller bridge
New tuners
New Bournes / Switchcraft components
Weight- 6lbs 2 oz
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