FS: Westbury Standard Japan 70s/80s £150

Buffalode

I have decided to move on my Vintage Japanese Westbury Standard in a Burgundy Wine Finish.

This is a really solid and well crafted guitar that I believe are becoming quite collectable. I bought this with the intention of restoring it, however I simply don't have the time and need to clear some space. 

As you can see the guitar has been well used and does exhibit various dings and bumps that I have tried to fully document. Also, one of the volume pots has been snapped off at some point and the bridge pickup possibly needs rewiring (I haven't checked the guts). Still it plays and sounds great and I'm sure in the right hands can be brought back to its former glory.

The guitar has no case, but will be well packaged if postage is preferred. Price includes postage which will be tracked and insured.

Here is some info from the Westbury website:

The body of the Westbury Standard has a slightly offset double cutaway design made of mahogany. The neck is a joined set neck with a steel reinforced adjustable truss rod which is also made of mahogany. The neck is a 5 piece, 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlays with a black headstock overlay with a "Westbury" logo and "W" design with three tuners per-side. The bridge is adjustable with a stop tailpiece. The Westbury standard comes with two DiMarzio humbucker pickups (bridge: DiMarzio Super D, neck: DiMarzio PAF-style), four knobs (two volume, two tone) with a three-way pickup toggle selector. The hardware is chrome and the Westbury Standard was available in Black, Natural, Sunburst, Walnut, or Burgundy Wine finish. The Westbury Standard was manufactured from 1979-1981.

blueskunk

@Sarge ;

Sarge

Cheers for the heads up @blueskunk but I've got my Westbury keeper  

Sarge

Incidentally did you see the new Westbury reissue? the Rival Series 22 over at http://www.westburyguitars.com. ;

long awaited and hugely disappointing imo.  
sorry for the thread derailment. 

usedtobe

Sarge said:

Incidentally did you see the new Westbury reissue? the Rival Series 22 over at http://www.westburyguitars.com. ;

long awaited and hugely disappointing imo.  
sorry for the thread derailment. 

  

Buffalode

No worries, keeps it fresh! I did see the reissue. And the price. Not very Westbury...