[quote=”SB”]Hi wika,

Your guitar was built in Japan by Kawai sometime in the late 1960’s – early 1970’s. Given that yours has the floral style pickguard, I’d say yours was built in the early 1970’s. They were frequently sold under the Apollo or Kimberly brandnames.

I’ve owned several of these over the years and they are suprisingly nice players that produce a variety of useful tones.

You can see a picture of one of mine here:
http://www.vintaxe.com/cgi-bin/vintaxe_viewer.pl?guitar_teiscodelray_4pu&japanese_guitar_teiscodelray_4pu[/quote]

SB, Just thought you might be interested in this ‘Brace’ of beauties..
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELECTRIC-GUITARS-60S-JAPANVINTAGE-JOB-LOT-STRATS-AND-SG_W0QQitemZ300197903340QQihZ020QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Sure, I said “comfortably” over $100, but I’m not so sure that over $200 would happen. The vagaries of the market; if two people both want it then the bids increase. I do see them listed with crazy prices, but that’s dealer BINs that no-one ever clicks on. This Kingston 4-pup, with a starting price of $200 and a BIN of $275, will give a good indication of what to expect:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kingston-or-Kawai-Blues-Guitar-4-Pickups-plays-great_W0QQitemZ350023969455QQihZ022QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[quote=”1bassleft”] I removed the wheels and rested the strings directly on the bolt thread for an improvement. [/quote]

Classic stuff, i have a Sattelite Bass, its a Japanese made one from the late 70’s, looks like a P bass copy and has quite a nice tone, it’s very usable, im looking to change the pickup to improve the tone. But it is quite nice.
That 4 pickup model looks OK, surely it must be worth more than $100??

I also recognize that bridge and pickup style from my first electric guitar (MIJ), branded “Satellite” in England . Expect the body to be plywood and I found those bridge wheels gave me the action of an egg slicer. I removed the wheels and rested the strings directly on the bolt thread for an improvement.

70s Japanese guitars, even the cheaper end which this is, are attracting increasing attention. With the floral guard and Tufnelesque number of pickups, I wouldn’t be surprised if you got comfortably over $100 in bids (a fresh set of strings would help).

Hi wika,

Your guitar was built in Japan by Kawai sometime in the late 1960’s – early 1970’s. Given that yours has the floral style pickguard, I’d say yours was built in the early 1970’s. They were frequently sold under the Apollo or Kimberly brandnames.

I’ve owned several of these over the years and they are suprisingly nice players that produce a variety of useful tones.

You can see a picture of one of mine here:
http://www.vintaxe.com/cgi-bin/vintaxe_viewer.pl?guitar_teiscodelray_4pu&japanese_guitar_teiscodelray_4pu

Even the blind can feel there are 4 pickups, It’s not a Fender, it could be Japanese, there are some oddites about, i would pin any hope on it being worth a lot of money.

[quote=”glw”]Who said it might be a Fender? Did this person have a white walking stick and a guide dog?[/quote]
😛 😛

Who said it might be a Fender? Did this person have a white walking stick and a guide dog?