1970s Estrada SF-7 Electrified 00-Size Guitar (VIDEO! Fresh Work, Ready)

Quick notes:

1 — This is consigned. 

2 — Any repair work has been done so it plays spot-on unless otherwise noted! 

3 — I usually ship in 2-3 days but sometimes can get backed-up if a lot of orders come in at once. I like to make sure I have time to check the setup, restring if the strings are tired, and make any adjustments needed before shipping. If you need faster shipping, please make me aware!

4 — Please read the following text for full details and specs -- it's borrowed from my original blog post on it...

A consignor dropped this guitar off with a mix of other gear. It has an Estrada label and headstock logo but the same, weird, truss rod cover that can be seen on a mix of brands from the '70s -- Ibanez, most notably. It's a Japanese-made guitar and, considering the build and truss cover and style, probably built at the same factory that some of the similar Ibanez flattops were made.

It's all-ply, 00 in size with a Martin-looking body shape, and has a Gibson-style cherry red sunburst finish with a "hummingbird"-style pickguard and parallelogram-style fretboard inlay. I mean -- this thing is a mix of all worlds guitar at the time.

It also sounds rather blah as an acoustic but it does handle nicely after our work on it (Jose did a good job on the frets and making the new saddle and I helped him get it wired-up). We decided to make some lemonade from the lemons and fit an old '80s humbucking magnetic soundhole acoustic guitar pickup to it, string it with nickel-wound strings, and turn it into a plugged-in rockmobile. You can get clean, jangly acoustic strum-style stuff out of it plugged-in, now, right through to thicker old-fashioned jazz, and when given some dirt, a nice crunchy bit of mayhem. It's all quite feedback-resistant, too.

Repairs included: a fret level/dress, replacement rosewood saddle, pickup fitting and wiring (with bridge pin ground plate), setup, etc.

• Weight: 4 lbs 2 oz
• Scale length: 24 3/4"
• Nut width: 1 11/16"
• Neck shape: medium C
• Board radius: 12"
• Body width: 14 3/4"
• Body depth: 3 3/4"
• Top wood: ply spruce
• Back & sides wood: ply mahogany
• Bracing type: x
• Bridge: rosewood family, replacement?
• Fretboard: rosewood
• Neck wood: mahogany/maple
• Action height at 12th fret: 3/32” bass 1/16” treble (fast, spot-on)
• String gauges: 50w-11 with wound G, nickel-wound electric set
• Truss rod: adjustable
• Neck relief: straight
• Fret style: medium-lower

Condition notes: it's actually fairly clean and in good order. The saddle is on the low side but it's a ply-top instrument so its setup does not change much aside from truss rod adjustments. The soundhole pickup (1980s) is not original and we added it. The bridge is likely a replacement or at least modified from original. We've added a new, fully-compensated, rosewood saddle to it. The bridge pins are likely replacements. The back corners of the bridge have a teensy amount of lift at their edges (it's hard not to on ply-tops as they distorted) but the separation was filled and does not look bad. The bridge is bolted, anyhow!

It comes with: sorry, no case.

Consignor tag: DC