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Camel Mini Guitar Gold top. 1970's vintage! NM. Original leather gig bag

Estimated price for orientation: 550 $

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This is a Camel mini guitar made in Japan 1970s vintage super rare. The guitar was made by skilled craftsman Kyowa Shokai. Camel is one of the brands used in by Kyowa Shokai which had other brands such as Fresher & Argus. Camel brand was mainly used for an American  "Michigan Area Factory" copies & Kyowa Shokai added this mini model to the brand. These guitars were manufactured in Chushin Gakki factory & extremely hard to find even in Japan. Comes in Original nice leather carrying case. This guitar is setup with .008 strings tunes to a full Octave above normal guitar. A set of .012s will allow for normal tuning. Shokai was involved in a lawsuit by that Michigan factory guitar maker for his full sized Guitars .  Check out last photo of Jeff Beck Playing one! NOTE : FULL size Les Paul is to show size of mini & NOT included in this sale. See my guitars now on Ebay As well as my Thunderbird bass tribute TShirt! thanks for looking!