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Its definitely not 60s
Can't find an LP type though.
Edit: I'd have it for the right price
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Ooh, ooh, you know you want it Sir.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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The truss rod doesn't do anything as its anchored into soft wood.
The pickups are more microphonic than an SM58 and genuinely sound awful.
It has an action that could slice steel (and without hefty shims won't lower).
The fretting is poor.
Its utter shit.
He bought it for the "Gold foil-type" pickups - after I showed him how appalling the guitar was, he was going to put them in a custom build. I've told him not to bother and to buy some replicas from someone who knows what they are doing.
I believe it is going on the bonfire tomorrow night. It probably won't burn properly either.
Don't waste your money.
I had the misfortune of actually attempting to play a KJP-2 recently, along with some other ultra-cheap 70's Teisco/Woolworths Audition/Satellite crud.
Sadly, the intervening years had not magically transformed them into instruments of any recognisable quality, no matter how much overly-optimistic snakeoil "mojo" they may have accrued...
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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I wasn't sure whether to award a Lol or a Wiz - went with Wiz in the end...spot-on!
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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Brand-name roulette...there definitely are numerous interesting (and decent quality) USA Kay, Silvertone, Harmony*, etc budget products, but it's a different kettle of fish/gets a bit murky when instruments were manufactured elsewhere (Taiwan/Japan, etc).
That said, (and as @ICBM often says), some can be made playable.The Kay KJP-2 above was definitely bottom of the range, but further up, Kay K-32's (MIT pancake-construction - not plywood - Strat copies) can actually be surprisingly good with some fettling (for a budget instrument).
There's undoubtedly a kind of charm with some stuff, but there are points where it runs out - for example, (IMHO) Kay/Univox "Effector" LP copies are uniformly dire due to the cheap materials from which they're constructed - and this includes the awful on-board effects. Why people ask upwards of £400 for these amazes me.
*For instance, (a while ago) I had a Harmony H81 Rebel which was excellent.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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I agree. And I'd say that I'm reasonably well qualified to make that comment!
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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I’ve rebuilt a few and got good prices for them when finished - £150-£200 - but the price reflects the work and not the inherent value when I started... there’s a lot of time-consuming work filling stripped screw holes (almost all of them usually are) and if the frets are lifting or cut too short for the width of the board, forget it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein