The model you are seeing is a “Turn of the Century Player.” This guitar was built in 1999 and is a handmade protoype (serial #11); there are only 19 certificates stating authenticity and this guitar comes with one of them. Jay Pawar and his team spent hundreds of hours crafting this guitar; Jay hand-cut the scrolls.You are bidding on an incredibly rare guitar.
The guitar has a beefy, 1950’s-style Gibson-style neck. The volume and tone control pull in and out, and vary the tone. I spoke with Brent Ferguson (his name is on the authenticity certificate and he is one of Jay Pawar’s partners) who said that there is a five-way switch and that the Pawar was marketed as having 20 different sounds. The pick-up system is patented (#6121537). Per an email Jay Pawar sent me, this particular guitar is from the first batch of 13 used for the catalog and the musical tradeshows. Those are all handmade without any of the machining that was used on a later guitars. Please note: 1)      Hand-made prototype (serial #11) and comes with a certificate of authenticity (there are only 19 such certificates and this comes with one of them) 2)      The guitar has been kept in an air-conditioned room 3)      The switches can be noisy due to lack of use over the past 8-10 years 4)      Comes with a soft-shell case From the Blue Book of Electric Guitars Offset cutaway solid body, unique scroll upper bout, carved maple top, light weight swamp ash back, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 25.5 in. scale, jumbo frets, set neck, tunematic bridge, string-through body retainer, Sperzel non-locking tuners, recessed Dunlop strap locks, Pawar Positive Tone System with 20 pre-set classic tones, 2 Seymour Duncan pickups, Gun Metal Gray back, available in Sterling Silver, Drama Gold, or Midnight Black finish, current mfg.   Comments from others on the Pawar guitar from The Gear Page I love his pickup system, it's very versatile. I've played a bunch of his guitars (the scroll and DC style guitar that he made.) They're mostly mahogany & maple top construction, but I know he's done a few other combinations, including all mahogany, a spalted maple top, and I believe an all ash body as well.   love the composite profile neck, and the resonant wood, and the pickups, and the beautiful finish, and the clever overall design and flawless execution of it, and…well, everything. It has the greatest tonal range of any electric I have played, and more possible pickup selections as well. I can only report that the sound, feel and look of the instrument is breathtaking. One volume and one tone knob plus the five-way switch gives you everything you need and more.   Other comments: (Thu, 01 Jul 1999) PAWAR GUITARS will unveil its Turn of the Century guitar at the NAMM show. This hand-made electric guitar features the Pawar Positive Tone System (P.T.S.). Pawar (rhymes with "guitar") advertises that the system provides guitar players with "all of your favorite tones in one guitar." Jay Pawar, vice-president of research and development, stated, "Our goal was to design a guitar that has great examples of classic humbucking tones and classic single-coil tones in a system that would be very easy to operate." The Pawar P.T.S. features Seymour Duncan pickups. “I find that the best feature of the tone selection is the ability to go between single-coil and humbucker sounds quickly, and also to be able to get fairly good sounding Gretsch-type sounds. I agree, the deep jazzy sounds are remarkable; but so are the Tele and humbucker sounds. I think that the guitar was not a success partially because many people thought that there were too many sound options available and that too many of them were essentially indistinguishable from each other. It’s true that it is very hard to understand which part of which pickup is working at each setting, whether it is in series or parallel with the other pickup, etc. This put off lots of people. Most guitarists are not like most keyboard players, they like it to be simple and intuitively understandable. For example, the most popular guitar in the world, the Fender Stratocaster, has only five positions, and the next popular one, the Gibson Les Paul, has only three. What was perceived by too many to be over-complication sunk the concept and ultimately the company? Personally, I like the pickup selection concept and find it fascinating; but that’s apparently just me and you and too few others.” “The electronics are the Pawar Positive Tone System™ with a patent pending so exact details are kept secret for now. Pawar Guitars designed the Seymour Duncan Custom shop pickups and they work in a system with a Strat-like, five-way switch to give you the best of the Fender®/Gibson® tones for one, all-purpose utility machine”  AND FINALLY: “I'm a bit of a traditionalist, you know a classicist or maybe, as some people might say, a snob. I love a '55 Thunderbird or that original Corvette lusted after by collectors who all know that sometimes you just can't improve on perfection. They just get it right!! I'm always skeptical about a new guitar company but I have to say these guys at Pawar got it right and beautifully so with this could-be new classic. What I love about the Pawar (rhymes with guitar) Turn of The Century Player guitar is the way the company took a look back at what really works on some of the great classic guitars and incorporated it into their design. At the same time, they also paid attention and used a lot of the worthwhile new innovations of the last twenty years. As a working musician, who does not have a raft of guitar techs and roadies to relie on, one of the things I appreciate in the Pawar axe is the drilled-through-the-back stringing. This is important for a couple of reasons: you break a string in performance you can still finish the song. With floating bridges and the like you're dead meat with your instrument immediately useless. Stringing through the back also provide much better sustain and tone. Anyone who tells you the wood and it's thickness does not matter much with an electric is blowing smoke. Sure it does!! The heft, feel and balance is reminiscent of the Les Paul Gibson designs from the golden years. It has an "already been played" texture to the neck. The Player features a hand carved maple top, a swamp ash back, a maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard. The scale is 25 1/2 inches with jumbo frets and there are two different neck sizes, both available with Sperzel tuners. The finish on the Player is not translucent and it's not a hot rod, but more of a Cadillac in the sense that you see where the money went...not flashy just classy! The electronics are the Pawar Positive Tone System™ with a patent pending so exact details are kept secret for now. Pawar Guitars designed the Seymour Duncan Custom shop pickups and they work in a system with a Strat-like, five-way switch to give you the best of the Fender®/Gibson® tones for one, all-purpose utility machine. I can only report that the sound, feel and look of the instrument is breathtaking. One volume and one tone knob plus the five-way switch gives you everything you need and more. You won't need another electric guitar...this one does everything but make coffee. A guitar that will suit the needs of any professional, the Player come in Drama Gold, Sterling Silver Viper Blue and Natural Finishes.”