Description
What makes this guitar special: Never has there been a more fitting example of a “player’s guitar.” This thing is far from collector’s quality, but it sure gets the job done fine. The pickguard is gone, the tuners are changed, there’s a hairline crack in the headstock, finish checking galore, and a steel rod running from the neck heel through the interior of the guitar and out the end pin. This was done by a previous owner who it seems didn’t want to “splurge” on a neck reset. Despite all these issues, this guitar sounds terrific, thanks to the original P90 single-coils, and is fully playable. As with all our guitars, it comes professionally inspected by our in-house luthier to ensure that the electronics are functioning, and that it will play properly up and down the length of the fingerboard (to the best of our ability on this one…it plays great but there’s only so much we can do with the issues at hand).
Cosmetic condition: There’s no sugar-coating this one…just about anything you can think of has happened to this thing. There are various scratches, dents, nicks, dings, chips, and scuffs throughout the guitar, and ample weather checking throughout. The tuners have been swapped out for modern Schallers, and the holes from the originals are visible. There is a small crack in the wood extending vertically on the back of the headstock from the base of the headstock up to tuner for the low E string. The neck has been refretted, and the replacements have a decent amount of life left in them, but do show visible wear. The screws for the pickups are unoriginal, and there is a steel bar holding the neck heel in place. The saddles on the bridge are also unoriginal, as is the trapeze tailpiece.
Body: Double bound maple body in cherry sunburst finish with Tune-O-Matic bridge and trapeze tailpiece. Original pickguard is long gone.
Weight: 6lb, 1.7oz
Neck: Rounded mahogany neck with aged white side dots and pearl dot inlays. Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard is in pretty good shape, and shows considerably less wear than the rest of the guitar. Neck has been refretted, and while frets show considerable wear, they still have a great deal of life left in them. 1 9/16” nut width, and 24 3/4" scale length. Neck appears to be straight, but due to the serious modification to the neck heel, truss rod adjustment is not recommended. Replacement Schaller tuners function as they should.
Electronics: Dual P90 single coil pickups (Neck-9.87K ohms. Bridge-9.96K ohms) with 3-way pickup selector switch and vintage style tophat knobs, 2x tone, 2x volume.
Case: Hard shell case included.
