Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Kawai Aquarius Custom

Aquarius Custom
This my Aquarius, my first guitar bought in 1982 and still in use after some times in guitar limbos... It's a AQ-450 model originally in "Lake Placid Blue" with a vintage trem and two humbuckers - splitable with a push-pull knob.

As you can see on the lower picture, I first customized it with rough golden paisley pattern (my short-lived Prince phase). Later it stayed in its box for a long time until I reactivated it, fixed it, sanded it, replaced the pickguard with an aluminium one and put baritone strings, now I use it in various open tunings, it gets me quite interesting sounds.
Aquarius Paisley

Chris Pearce's 12-string Aquarius

Aquarius 12
This white 12-string Aquarius AQ-1200 belonged until recently to Surfin' Lungs guitarist Chris Pearce and you can hear it on myspace.com/surfinlungs - on the song Hawai Stole my Baby -, also on some of their albums.

Kawai Aquarius Catalogue 1985

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Kawai catalogue 1984

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Kawai Aquarius Flyer 1984

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Kawai Aquarius Flyer 1983

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Kawai Flyer 1978

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