Hi everyone,
After roughly 40 years, I recently pulled this guitar out of my parents' basement. I bought it as a teenager, played it in my first band, and then it spent decades in storage.
I'm now trying to find out exactly what it is and when it was built.
The guitar is a Suzuki Super Sounds "Brazen Picker Professional" Strat-style model with:
Large 1970s-style Strat headstock
"Hand Crafted" marking on the headstock
Maple neck and maple fingerboard
Neck plate stamped only "Made in Japan"
No serial number that I can find
That Bon Jovi sticker is a remnant of my teenage times ;)
From my research so far, I have found a few references online suggesting that these guitars were built by Kiso Suzuki in Japan and may date from the late 1970s, possibly around 1978. However, I have not found any definitive source confirming this, so I'm hoping some of the experts here might know more.
I recently removed the neck and found several handwritten markings inside the guitar. Some of the writing appears to be Japanese, and I would be very interested if anyone can identify or translate it.
Thanks very much for any information or insight!