1960s Custom Kraft Barracuda Vintage Guitar LP Black Beauty Matsumoku Japan


1960s Custom Kraft Barracuda Vintage Guitar LP Black Beauty Matsumoku  Japan

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1960s Custom Kraft Barracuda Vintage Guitar LP Black Beauty Matsumoku Japan:
$474.99


Up for sale, a 1960s Custom Kraft Barracuda in excellent, 100% original condition and in perfect working order. One of the more desirable and cosmetically appealing Les Paul styled instruments to be distributed in the late 1960s, this Barracuda was made in Japan\'s famed Matsumoku factory and imported by the St Louis Music company in the USA. \"Custom Kraft\" was the house brand for St. Louis Music, and this particular instrument clearly takes its cues from a Black Beauty Les Paul Custom, with a gloss black finish, gold hardware, block inlays and an \"open book\" headstock shape with multi-ply binding. Tonally, this Custom Kraft exceeds expectations, and for being a solid bodyguitar, it actually has a sound more akin to a semi hollow ES-335. The mid-range has a smokey quality that screams blues on the neck pickup, with a sound that\'s chimey but smooth in the mid position, and easily able to eek out classic rock snarl on the bridge. The pickups are also very well balanced and measure 7.7k ohms in the neck position and 7.8k at the bridge. Professionally setup here at Mike & Mike\'s Guitar Bar, this Custom Kraft has been meticulously and lovingly tweaked to play its best with solid intonation and comfortable action.
The neck has a slender C profile that plays easily with an intuitive 1 5/8\" nut width and string spacing that\'s ideal for easy chording and accurate lead lines. The rosewood fretboard sports pearl block inlay and original frets that are in fantastic shape, and just beginning to show minor wear down near the nut (not bad for a guitar pushing 50 years old). On the headstock, the original sealed back gold tuning machines are intact and work surprisingly well, holding pitch as they should and turning with ease.
All of the electronics work as they should, with two original humbuckers and standard Volume/Tone controls for each pickup coupled to a three-way selector switch. Cosmetically, the guitar is in great shape, with wear that is consistent with a bit of honest use over the decades. The guitar has only acouple nicks in the top, one on the binding at the treble side waist, and one near the bass side forearm bout as well as some minor scratches. There are several small dents along the side, mostly concentrated along the bottom edge near the input jack, with consistent tiny nicks along the back edge near the binding, along with a few scratches on the back (best seen in photo #9).
Don\'t miss out on this rare and 100% original Custom Kraft Barracuda!
Please check out our shop \"Mike & Mike\'s Guitar Bar\" on the web, and feel free to call us directly with any questions at 206.399.8518.

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1960s Custom Kraft Barracuda Vintage Guitar LP Black Beauty Matsumoku Japan:
$474.99

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