My dad's old Gibson Marauder - from 1975 according to Gibson support, based on original pot date codes. The previous pickguard was completely gone around the input jack. It was a custom guard hand-made by someone as it was already converted to have a standard size bridge humbucker, but the placement was all over the place. So a standard guard wouldn't fit - and the original bridge pickup is basically unobtainable anyway.
So I drew up a new one in CAD for standard humbuckers and had it custom made. Pickups are cheap but IMO serviceable Fleor PAF clones. Pots are 500k Bourns with a 22nF cap. It's also fully shielded. Took quite a lot of copper tape as the cavity is huge.
I'm lefty so it's not much use to myself, but nice to have something that right-handed visitors can play. Doesn't seem half bad to me.
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Here is a late 1940’s Gibson LG2. Vintage Gibson’s all have a problem where the bracing comes loose. Rather than go in and individually glue rack loose end it’s a lot better if you can open up the guitar and remove and reglue all the bracing. This insures that every brace is solid to the top and tightly coupled to the bridge vibration.
