buyusfear
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Who's up for watching me try and bring this guitar back to its former glory?
My buddy inherited this from his uncle, who had purchased it back in the 80's possibly? We don't know, maybe early 90's late 70's, semantics. The deal from the then seller was, "Why don't you invest in this old Les Paul, but let me make it shiny and new and playable, by adding a shaved ABR and stop tail, and...shielding paint and a rats nest of wiring?"
Lot's a face palms with this one, especially today when I stripped it; however, overall the bones are good.
Thankfully the owner has asked that we make it a trapeze again. He played a '53 trapeze with a MojoAxe tailpiece and loved it; who wouldn't?"
The neck was never reset thankfully, so it's just a case of plugging some holes and fixing the nasty mess going on with the headstock veneer/face.
The pickups are original thankfully, but the leads were butchered as you'll see. The only other original parts are the ground wire spaghetti tubing (go figure on that one), rear ABS brown cavity cover plates and the pickguard & bracket.
I'm actually looking forward to this.
This is it next to a stock '53 trapeze with MojoAxe
My buddy inherited this from his uncle, who had purchased it back in the 80's possibly? We don't know, maybe early 90's late 70's, semantics. The deal from the then seller was, "Why don't you invest in this old Les Paul, but let me make it shiny and new and playable, by adding a shaved ABR and stop tail, and...shielding paint and a rats nest of wiring?"
Lot's a face palms with this one, especially today when I stripped it; however, overall the bones are good.
Thankfully the owner has asked that we make it a trapeze again. He played a '53 trapeze with a MojoAxe tailpiece and loved it; who wouldn't?"
The neck was never reset thankfully, so it's just a case of plugging some holes and fixing the nasty mess going on with the headstock veneer/face.
The pickups are original thankfully, but the leads were butchered as you'll see. The only other original parts are the ground wire spaghetti tubing (go figure on that one), rear ABS brown cavity cover plates and the pickguard & bracket.
I'm actually looking forward to this.
This is it next to a stock '53 trapeze with MojoAxe
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