It came to me from eSGEe.
It had lived a hard life without love.
The body was some walnut stained looking thing with no finish of any kind.
It was full of bumps & bruises.
There was no high E string and the original high E saddle was missing, with a stamped Fender saddle in it's place.
In the wrong place for proper intonation, and not really moveable.
All the intonation screws were on the wrong side of the bridge and the strings were coming thru the intonation screw holes, on the back of a bottom loader bridge.
It was a mess.
The bridge pickup was weak. Really weak & thin.
It's plastic mounting ears were breaking off to the point that they were haphazardly glued to the pickup body, and the bridge pickup was glued to the pickguard to keep it in position.
Time for some intervention, this guitar had no soul...
Adrian knew it had issues and sent along a care package that included a pair of Guitar Madness "Dirty Digits" pickups and a harness for a Lester Jr.
I proceeded to make a new saddle to match the existing ones, tapped with the proper 4-40 adjusting screw, also straightened out the wonky screw arrangement back to how it should be so the
strings now load from under the bridge, not from the rear.
Now I turned my attention to the pickups.
Ended up making a new pickguard due to different pickup mounting and the old bridge pickup being glued to the old pickguard.
This one was easy, I had the old pickguard.
Traced the outline, pickup locations, knob, switch, jack location and screw holes onto a sheet of 3 ply.
And roughed it out.
At this point I realized that I wouldn't get $hit done if I took pictures of every step, so use your imagination.
I proceeded to drill out & bevel the pickguard.
Mounted pickups, pots, switch, jack, etc... Everything a pickguard could ever want.
Oh I forgot to mention, that ugly walnut colored stain was hiding a decent looking 2 piece what looks to be, mahogany body.
I took pity on it and relieved it of it's ruddy brown color and a few of the wounds of time.
It now sports a nice gloss finish over the mahogany.
That's the reflection of a beer can in the back. It shines like a new penny.
It also got a maple truss rod cover to replace the horrid black plastic thing that was on there.
The Filthy Fingers, or Dirty Digits or whatever they're called, sound great.
The guitar itself plays great with a fresh set of .009 - .046 strings.
Adrian will be pleased with his new toy.
Actually an old toy that he was never able to enjoy due to the issues that it had.
Come get it brother, It's begging for a proper junkrub.
Sorry about the pics, I suck at photography!
It had lived a hard life without love.
The body was some walnut stained looking thing with no finish of any kind.
It was full of bumps & bruises.
There was no high E string and the original high E saddle was missing, with a stamped Fender saddle in it's place.
In the wrong place for proper intonation, and not really moveable.
All the intonation screws were on the wrong side of the bridge and the strings were coming thru the intonation screw holes, on the back of a bottom loader bridge.
It was a mess.
The bridge pickup was weak. Really weak & thin.
It's plastic mounting ears were breaking off to the point that they were haphazardly glued to the pickup body, and the bridge pickup was glued to the pickguard to keep it in position.
Time for some intervention, this guitar had no soul...
Adrian knew it had issues and sent along a care package that included a pair of Guitar Madness "Dirty Digits" pickups and a harness for a Lester Jr.
I proceeded to make a new saddle to match the existing ones, tapped with the proper 4-40 adjusting screw, also straightened out the wonky screw arrangement back to how it should be so the
strings now load from under the bridge, not from the rear.
Now I turned my attention to the pickups.
Ended up making a new pickguard due to different pickup mounting and the old bridge pickup being glued to the old pickguard.
This one was easy, I had the old pickguard.
Traced the outline, pickup locations, knob, switch, jack location and screw holes onto a sheet of 3 ply.
And roughed it out.
At this point I realized that I wouldn't get $hit done if I took pictures of every step, so use your imagination.
I proceeded to drill out & bevel the pickguard.
Mounted pickups, pots, switch, jack, etc... Everything a pickguard could ever want.
Oh I forgot to mention, that ugly walnut colored stain was hiding a decent looking 2 piece what looks to be, mahogany body.
I took pity on it and relieved it of it's ruddy brown color and a few of the wounds of time.
It now sports a nice gloss finish over the mahogany.
That's the reflection of a beer can in the back. It shines like a new penny.
It also got a maple truss rod cover to replace the horrid black plastic thing that was on there.
The Filthy Fingers, or Dirty Digits or whatever they're called, sound great.
The guitar itself plays great with a fresh set of .009 - .046 strings.
Adrian will be pleased with his new toy.
Actually an old toy that he was never able to enjoy due to the issues that it had.
Come get it brother, It's begging for a proper junkrub.
Sorry about the pics, I suck at photography!
. That classy guitar is better than new now!
