Tell me what my guitar is--please?

[Bassbben]

Originally posted by Melf
Sorry I was a little late...

lol...looks like the PuPs are made of screws??!!
lol

[Paul A]

It's made by "Sakai" ..... I'd hoped i'd never see another one in my lifetime

If you paid more than a couple of dollars for it ... you were ripped off .... badly


BTW - Don't attempt to adjust the truss rod, one of 3 things will happen:

A: The fingerboard will part company from the neck.

or

B: The neck will part company with the body.

or

C: The headstock will go south and probably take someones eye out ...

[Melf]

Lol I didn't think anybody could notice that at that distance, but yes, they are made of screws.

Paul, why do you say that I was ripped off? It works great. I'll take your word on the truss rod but it doesn't need it at all, the neck is straight as an arrow! The pots don't even crackle...I'd say it's at least as good as a Squier.

[volker]

What's so strange about the pole pieces being screws? There are many much more expensive pick-ups around that are built like that!

And @ Melf: Don't listen to people making fun about your guitar - as long as you like your instrument, things will be fine. After all it's you who wants to play it, not them!

[geezer316]

dude that guitar is a vintage Fender! they used a penn name, like Ibanez used to use the name Westminster Fender did the same with the name Audition. that axe is worth like 10.000 $$$ in beat up condition ,yours is mint so i figure you will get about 150,000$ plus any women of your choice. you are so lucky ,i wish i was you!sorry dude i was just teasing,its all good. as long as it works then sport it,i have a japannese p-bass copy that had the headstock sanded down,its a great bass but i'll never know exactely what brand it is ,its headstock was a commonly used style by many japanese companies(hondo,epiphone,and a few others)it bugged me for a while but soon enuff i forgot all about it and now i dont even play it,i de-fretted it in hopes of re-kindeling my un-dying love for it but to no availe it sits in my corner as the most expensive hat/clothes rack in my house

[Paul A]

I wasn't taking the mickey, I have one of these!
It was humour.

[StrudelBass]

Resembles a fender musiclander/swinger. (No idea really, just looking at bodies at warmoth.)

[Tsal]

Definitely some 60's cheapo, by looking at hardware. But I think it's worth something like $200, so it was a good deal

[Paul A]

O.K. ... one more time...

ITS A SAKAI! (Made by SAKAI guitar co. for Woolworths) Made in Japan, late 60's early 70's.
The tailpiece is pressed steel (thin) that the ball ends of the strings hook into.
The bridge is Chrome plated steel, only adjustable for height not intonation.
The whole thing is very light (the body is some kind of basswood laminate).
The pickup "adjustable" pole pieces aren't - if you take one apart it's a single coil wrapped around a "bar" magnet.
Somewhere on there you'll find a sticker or decal saying "steel reinforced neck".
They are absolutely NOWHERE near "Squier" quality.
The whole thing is probably worth 30 dollars ..tops!
I paid £5 for mine (8 dollars?).
The only thing it can be used for is playing slide guitar.

From the net:
"This trademark has been identified by researcher Willie G. Moseley as a "House Brand" of the F. W. Woolworth (Woolco) department stores.
Further information from authors Tony Bacon and Paul Day indicate that guitars with this trademark originated in Japan (later Korea) during the 1960s and 1970s"

[geezer316]

Paul thanks for ruining my hopes for a new axe ,i was gonna offer this dude anything he wanted for that guitar.it is a thang of beauty un-matched by none . but seriously is it really that bad of an axe ? its worse than a squier ? WOW ! thats bad . but my dad always used to say " A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING, IS BETTER THAN A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING" if worsae comes to worse you can always use it for scrap wood,or cut it down and make a lifetimes worth of tooth-picks

[volker]

I'd go for Paul A's information in his latest post! @ Melf

By the way, Robert Smith had paid £20 for his Woolworth's guitar - he liked it so much that he put one of its pick-ups into the Fender Jazzmaster he used afterwards:

"...The third pick-up is from a Woolworth's Top 20 guitar, my very first electric. I took it in to record our first album, along with a little WEM combo amp. (Manager/producer) Chris Parry, who was paying for the record, said, 'You can't use that!'
We went out and bought a Fender Jazzmaster, and I immediately had the Top 20 pick-up installed in it, which really upset Chris.
I played the entire 'Three Imaginary Boys' album through a Top 20 pick-up..."
- from GUITAR PLAYER September 1992

[leanne]

I want one. Really

[volker]

In addition to Paul A's info: click here.
The "Audition" logo on my acoustic guitar looks exactly like the one on the bottom of this webpage, by the way.