I'm guessing at some point in its life someone drilled through the string holes in the bridge to do this. One weird thing I just took the old strings off to clean it and the strings go right through the top so the ball ends are inside the guitar! The strings are fed _through_ the top, so you need to reach inside to remove them. It doesn't have the 'lawsuit' Martin ripoff headstock logo, so I'm guessing later rather than earlier.ฤก979? early 80s? EDIT: 1972 (It has a zero fret, which were popular in the 80s with trashy guitars to try to fix intonation issues). Label reads (in English, so I'm guessing not a Japan only model): Questions: Any way to date these? Pics below. I think it'll be pretty good for slide though. not a lot of overtones (but the strings that were on it were pretty old, so I'll let you know what it sounds like with new strings once I figure out a few. X-bracing, laminate, mother of toilet seat inlays. It's nothing fancy, but it's cute and it sounds OK. Just picked up an old Kiso, Suzuki F-100 acoustic off CL, cheap.
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