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Post subject: Re: The story of identifying my father's guitar :-) :-(
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:26 am
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RenRen wrote:
I’d love to hear what else I should be looking for to replace.

Pickguard (duly noted)



No keep the original one, it is not dully , it have "mojo" :lol:

Don't replace original parts unless they are broken....if you want to keep is value.
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Update aug 31

Pickgard may be the one comes with low budget electronic, not '70 original, I don't know


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Post subject: Re: The story of identifying my father's guitar :-) :-(
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:37 pm
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jmattis wrote:
With this guitar, I'd only concentrate on the emotional values, and from that viewpoint any amount of money one can afford is meaningless.

On the possible future resell value, this guitar is problematic. The production numbers in the seventies were big, so the big money makers are the confirmed, original, mint condition ones.
This one will always have the shadow of a possible partscaster, and it won't be original, so nobody retires to the Caribbeans with the profits.

Yep totally agree could not have put it better myself. :D


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Post subject: Re: The story of identifying my father's guitar :-) :-(
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:52 am
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Ditto.
The pickguard may or may not be original. It looks too clean, but the foil is the correct shape. The color... If it's a '75, it would be white on white as it appears now. '76 was a transition year, some were all white, some had black pickguards with white pickups and knobs, and very late in the year they were all black.
Yours does not have a serial number on the headstock, indicating it was early to mid 1976 (if it is a '76), so the white plastics may be correct.

Regardless, what you have is "your father's guitar" and the more things you change, the less it is that and the more it becomes an attempted restoration, but without the information needed to do an accurate restoration.
Personally, I would have replaced the pickups, but I would not have spent more than $300 and would have used modern vintage style pickups from Fender or Seymour Duncan.

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