Today, Lawman Guitars is Presenting...
A really cool and awesome playing and sounding, 1985 Martin Stinger Guitars with the original Hard Shell Case!
We just got this guitar back from our Tech and it plays awesome! Excellent low action with no fret outs or sore fingers!! New set of 10 guage strings that sound terrific. Out Tech replaced and upgraded the vibrato bridge. The original trem block was broken so we replaced the entire system. It whammy's just great now! See pic 5.. We even have the black tipped whammy bar for you!
The guitar is in great condition. Only a few superficial dings and pick scratches. Check out the frets! Hardly and wear at all on them.

Here's some info we found on the internet regarding these cool guitars imported by Martin Guitar...

Stinger by C.F. Martin

In 1985 Martin unveiled its Stinger line of solid body electric guitars. These were manufactured on the Southern Korean peninsula (south of the DMZ). This was coincidently during the same period in which there was a dramatic increase in quality among Korean manufacturers.

As with most other imported Martin products, Stinger guitars were made in Korea and shipped to the Martin factory for a final inspection and set-up, before being sent on to dealers. Essentially, Martin Stingers are well-made entry level guitars pretty much following conventional lines of the marketplace.

Martin never produced Stinger catalogs, so a detailed accounting is pretty difficult. However, there were four basic Stinger body styles, a fairly conventional Strat shape, a Strat-style with an arched top, a Tele and a Fender-style bass.

These came in a variety of finish and pickup configuration options. Headstocks were a kind of modified Strat-style six-in-line, with a pointed throat and slightly hooked nose, with a painted triangular Stinger logo running under the strings. All had bolt-on maple necks. Guitars had a 25.4” scale, while the basses were 34”ers.

The principal difference among the Strats was in finish options. All had 21-fret maple necks, three single-coil pickups, volume and two tone controls, and five-way select.

Strat-style guitars:

SWG (basic red or black, with maple ’board and chrome hardware. These had traditional non-locking vibratos)

SGV (red with white graphics)

SSX (duskey, with purple burst (white outside, purple in center), tiara turquoise, blue pearl, metallic white, black and candy apple red finish options, with matching colored maple fingerboard and matching chrome hardware.
Cool guitars that look and sound like their look alike Strats and a lot less money. Look at the cost of mid 1980's Strats lately?
Check out the cool original Hard Shell Case... As nice as the guitar. All latches, hinges, original handle and accessory box are still with it. Excellent case from the 1980's!
Cool but vintage so its sold as is no returns. Thanks for respecting that.

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