Michael Kelly Hourglass upgraded with Rio Grande P-90's

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Very reluctantly for sale, a sweet Michael Kelly Hourglass guitar that has been upgraded with Rio Grande P-90's (one Blues Bar and one Jazz Bar). Features a mahogany body with flamed maple top (finished in a transparent black/grey), high quality hardware-- a Tonepros bridge w/ strings through the body, Grover tuners, bound body and beautiful Abalone inlays on the fret board. The guitar is set up for low and fast action and the neck reminds me a lot of my much more expensive USA Hamer Studio Archtop.

The guitar is in great shape-- a minor scuff on the binding, but nothing else I can really see.

I don't want to sell this, but I just bought a kinda pricey Gibson SG Standard with Fralins and could use some $ to offset that purchase. I won't be crushed if this doesn't sell.

I'll include a set of black P-90 covers and a gig bag.

$340 shipped to the US
 

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bump on the MK-- I took this out in the sun today to take a closer look and noticed a very small chip on the edge of the neck pickup rout and some slight finish imperfections (not damage or wear, or uncommon for these kinds of guitars, but I wanted to make sure they were noted), so I'm taking another $20 off the price. $320 shipped to the US This is a lot of guitar for not much money
 
Wish I could take on another guitar without also having to get my own apartment :) -- just wanted to plug the pickups. The Rio Grande pickups factory is just down the street from me (maybe 1.5 miles from my house), and I bumbled in there once and they gave me a tour (they also make Robin guitars) -- they work really hard on the pickups, and there's a lot of manual steps. They did use winding machines, but they were really old and cool. I picked up a couple of humbuckers (the Texas/BBQ set) from them, and they sound fantastic, and I've heard great things about the P-90 style ones.
 
thanks antichef-- they are great pickups and the guitar itself is awesome. i'm really selling now just to help fund some other things...
 
bump - i got another guitar (another Michael Kelly actually-- I need one with HB's for my master plan), so trade or trade + cash offers are welcome.
 
bump down to $300 shipped (cash or trade+cash).
in trades i'm looking for cool od pedals or a carbon copy v2, a lil' fender tube combo, high quality guitar parts (need some nice 500k pots-- 2 push/pulls, 2 regular short shaft-- prefer rs or wcr, two .022 and one .015 tone caps (prefer rs jensen, wcr or vitamin q, a set of nice tuners for a tele neck), bass stuff, really anything interesting other than other electric guitars.
 
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