Product: Kawai AQ-401
Price Paid: US $150.00 used
Submitted
12/11/2000
at
12:16pm
by
Shane
Email: koynania<at>bellsouth dot net
Features
:
10
The year is unknown. The guitar has 22 frets wih a solid top. It has 2 Humbuckers, 1 volume control and 1 tome control that has a push/pull pot that taps the 2 H/B's. The pickups look to be Dimarzio's. Body is made of Hard Wood not Ply..type unknown. The neck however is great. It's a maple neck w/ the same grade maple as an Amer. Std. Stratocaster. It's a strat. body style with a fixed tail piece. Neck is thin with jumbo frets and Maple fret board.
Sound
:
9
Sounds great. Very versitile due to the coil tapping feature. A bit noisy when tapped for single coils but sounds range from deep and bluesy to mix cutting single coil highs.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
Very sturdy instrument. Like the strats of the 70's. Only complain was a wire inside came undone but a little solder fixed it.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Great guitar. I only had the wiring problem but that could happen to any guitar. And again it was at the time about 15 years old.
Customer Support
:
1
I got the guitar 2nd hand, Kawai no longer makes guitars and you can't find any info on this model.
Overall Rating
:
10
I've been playing for about 6 yrs and I won a 83 Amer. Strat., Epi. Les Paul Standard. This guitar can reproduce all the sounds of both guitars put together. If it were stolen I would curl up in the fetal position and cry. I love everything about it, No complaints.
