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I was i dobt first to keep this one or not, he was extremely cheap completely original, and even played nice after i shimmed the neck, the way it was setup it was only suitable for slide.

i’m no 1 pu guitar guy but this one has something special, small, 20 frets, more a thing for kids, but the nicely aged to butterscotch blonde white, together with the chrome gives him a certain charme, but neverless i sold it on.

Most likely something form the kawai stable and made or branded guyatone, i base this on the chrome embossed scratchplate, this was a common feature on a lot of guyatone’s.

I only needed to polish, restring it and shim the neck, and amazingly the intonation is almost spot on, this is always a problem with guitarslike this, sometimes it’s that far off the guitar is only suitable for decoration.

Nice detail is that the sticker “steel reinforced neck” is still there, things like these are mostly gone over the years, same goes for the bridge cover and whammybar, it’s rare to find one this complete and this increases the value of it greatly.

A unexpected good strat copy branded marathon, most likely made by crafter baesd on the crafter tuners and the headstock shape ( similar to those of my crafter “cruiser”tele.

This one is way better than i expected, nice piece of wood for body, has a few beauty flaws, the bottom edge of the scratchplate is not straight and there was somthing weirds with the neck, looked like a flake of wood (bark??) was on top on a spot.

I repaired this becuase you could feel it and that’s not a thing you want while playing, now with the help of some superglue and sanding paper it feels smooth again.

The guitar was in alomost unplayed condition, never been intonated, one of the first things i alway do, the tremelo is amaizngly stabile almost no detuning, unusual for a cheao like this and gives a solid impression.

The humbucker is splitable which makes this a versatile starter, it keeps amazing me how the quality of cheap guitars has improved over the years.