60s Guyatone LG140T Electric Guitar

Here's a crazy guitar from the golden age of wacky Japanese instruments! Guyatone was one of the earliest Japanese manufacturers to reach US shores. They made guitars for many other importers including Kent and Ibanez. This crazy example has all of the cool features you love from Japanese guitars. The body shape is a mix of a Jazzmaster and a potato. The neck is actually painted to look like maple! It's crazy! Gretsch had thumbnail inlays. This Guyatone has inlays that resemble Lee press on nails. Four, count 'em, four pickups offer a bunch of tones. Two pickups have conventional round polepieces, two have wild staple poles. They are hooked to mind melting amount of controls that would give a NASA engineer fits. Separate on/off switches for each pickup, tone thumbwheels, Rhythm/Lead switches and separate volume controls for each bank of 2 pickups. Frankly, it looks like a blender. A wacky vegematic trem system (complete with cover and arm, that's rare) and a cheezoid plastic bridge team up with equally vegematic cheezoid tuners. The guitar is finished in a nicely yellowed off white shade that could be affectionately dubbed "smoker's teeth". Setting it off is a chrome pickguard and control plate that will allow your audience to see themselves admiring your offbeat taste in guitars. This is a real cosmonaut axe.

This Guyatone plays OK and sounds cool. The frets are in good shape. It's never going to feel like your brother's Ibanez shredder but it feels better than many guitars of this type. The electronics seem to work fine but one of the multitude of volume controls seemed to not turn all the way down. A minor issue as it may take years for you to figure out what everything does. Condition wise, this one shows wear you would expect from a 40+ year old instrument. Dents, dings, scratches, finish checking and playwear. The finish shows some discoloration and there's some normal finish cracks near the neck joint, a common but not serious malady on bolt on guitars of the era. A cool looking axe. Comes in a modern gigbag.

Cool looks and crazy, primitive tone. You can't get that in a new guitar. This Guyatone will blast you back to the space age in style.

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