"Apart from the string part being moved up there's no damage"

Stuckfast

Just that minor detail, really.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255190037648

But seriously, someone must've done that on purpose... why?!

GoldenEraGuitars

Phew, another bullet dodged

https://i.imgur.com/HRXhzCA.jpg

ICBM

Someone really wanted a guitar that can’t be played in tune?

The pickup, machineheads and truss rod cover might be worth having.

For the rest, it’s only a couple of weeks to bonfire night…

Funkfingers

Stuckfast said:

someone must've done that on purpose... why?

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, three reasons.
1) Ignorance
2) Stupidity
3) Nothing else.

maharg101

Were they trying to intonate the guitar with a capo on it !?

HarrySeven

Typical example of a vast multitude of eBay sellers who (to quote Oscar Wilde) know “The price of everything and the value of nothing”. 

Probably picked up from a bootsale on Sunday and eBay listed on Monday, with no other thought than It’s old = Money. 

There’s a bootsale scutter not too far from me who, when selling (invariably naff, badly described and overpriced) electric guitars, uses the phrase ”powers up OK”.

Mellish

Wow, what a mess that is!

Sassafras

The missing string is concerning. Would I be able to find a Kawai branded replacement?

TTony

I do like that people are finally recognising that adding some reference to the Kawai brand really does add huge value to a guitar.


I've seen some of the decent Kawai electrics advertised at what I would have considered to be very optimistic prices recently.    Way more than I paid for mine ....

dazzajl

Just admit you’re not man enough to play it! Give it to Seasick Steve and he’d make a number one album with it 


I’d buy it myself to show you all but I ummmmmmmmm, I don’t like the colour 

Offset

Sassafras said:

The missing string is concerning. Would I be able to find a Kawai branded replacement?

Maybe s/he'll throw in a free set of strings...

axisus

What a piece of crap! He's having a laugh at £85!

maltingsaudio

It had a Kawai scale length now luthier modified to fender standard scale length perfect for open G chords …..

WeZ84

£8.50 would still be too much 

Funkfingers

Should be categorised under Spares Or Repair. Those old machineheads might be salvageable. 

Stuckfast

What baffles me is that someone must have put a fair bit of work into relocating the bridge -- they've even neatly cut a hole out of the scratchplate -- but why? What were they thinking? Was it some sort of avant garde music project for creating microtonal effects?

AK99

Offset said:

Sassafras said:

The missing string is concerning. Would I be able to find a Kawai branded replacement?

Maybe s/he'll throw in a free set of strings...

Free string ..more like

ICBM

Funkfingers said:

Should be categorised under Spares Or Repair. Those old machineheads might be salvageable. 

And like the truss rod cover, are unusual and very hard to find if you do actually need one.

I'd certainly pay a tenner for them.