Sekova ES-335 Copy

335 copy. No one will read this review, so who cares? My brpthjer had it for years, bought it in 68 or 69 for 35 bucks from a hippy who wanted the money. It's a 335 copy--the japs had the eye in those days, but not the art.

It is a great sounding guitar. You'll never play one because none are left, but it's a loud feed backy son of a gun that some 60's maniac would be proud of. It sounds very jazzy (sold with .15 flatwounds) and is a good attempt at a jazzbox, which is what the 335 was intendedn to be, but got lost in the sauce of great rock guitarists in the early to mid 70's---then rock became crap and all the great musicians went studio or jazz, or---what the hell. ANYWAY: a great loud crazy sounding hybrid that doesn't know what it wants to be.

who knows? got it froma former hippy and have had to set it up big time. It's great now. The pickups are impossible to adj;ust properly, just a bunch of magnetic junk madness. The wood on the guitar is beautiful!!! teh controls work very nicely, not too much muffled bass on the bottom as humbuckers are wont to do.

Reliability? PULEEEEAAAZZE!!! It's from who knows where in the 1960's.

Customer support?!!! "Hello, the number you have reached has been disconnected: due to everyone's death!"

Oh... if you get a chance to buy one of these, and you know what you are doing, buy it. It has such a great pathetic wannabee sound. Cobain would have been proud, but he probably didn't know they existed.

I bought this guitar at Sam Goodys record store in a mall. The year was 1977. I was working at the mall and would go down and play it at
lunchtime. I put it on layaway. Total cost was $100. That was alot for a 17 year old then and now.

Standard looking ES-335 clone, brown finish, two microphonic humbuckers, cheap tuners, ect.

1977 was the year I was going to learn to play the guitar and I had the summer off to do it.

That Fall, I started college and everyone was playing folk guitar.
I met a kid in the courtyard and he told me that he wanted to go electric and I told him I wanted to go acoustic. We switched guitars right then and there. I gave him my Sekova electric and he gave me a very nice Ventura acoustic dreadnaught.(I still have it and play it often).

I never plugged it in. I didn't have an amp at the time.
I played it acoustically and that sounded thin of course.

From what I can remember, it was decent quality all around.
I remember that the bridge rattled a little.

Never played it anywhere plugged in.

All I know is that it was built somewhere in thje Pacific Rim.

I currently play in the band "Oliver Creak". I have a Martin D-16TR, Ventura acoustic, Fender Telecaster 1968, Fender Jazz Bass and a whole mess of mandolins, banjos, classical guitars.

I have come a long way from 1977.