Couldn't get the plastic covers off to look at the top side, but nothing on the bottom side. Don't think I've ever seen such a crude looking body cavity: One of the screws from the trem claw is poking trough. It's every bit as heavy as my US-made Strat but the heavy black finish that covers so much of the contour on the front of the body had me guessing plywood anyway.

Looks like a pretty dodgy plywood body with a shit ton of glue-like substance lining the entire cavity. Still, all in all, at this point I'm thinking it was at least worth the $200, just needs a little TLC. Volume knob is janky, cuts in & out between 1 and 5, works fine from 5 to 10. Tone pots both work, they run to the neck & bridge pups. There's a 5-way switch installed and an extra hole in the pickgaurd was drilled to accommodate the newer switch. LOTS of noise and feedback from my Diamond J-Drive and m Blackout Fix'd Fuzz. The pickups sound nice and crunchy when playing straight to the amp, but don't work so well with dirt boxes. All three Pickups are microphonic, tapping on the pickguard with a pick sounds like you're hitting tapping an SM58 vocal mic. Was getting some really good sounds out of the beefy neck pickup, middle position OK, bridge pickup crazy harsh. Nut seems like one of those really chunky cheap plastic things.

I plugged it straight into my Orange TH30 and played for an hour or so. The month is a mystery, and then the first number of the year code is missing but that's a 7 - then I have 50176 - That 5 should mean it's a 1975 model.

The first two characters of the serial number are worn off, but I think the formula was Letter (month) + 2 digit year code + 4 digits. If you bought your guitar from an alternate source it would cost you at least £50 to have it play to the standard that we set our guitars AS standard.So I picked this up for $200 last night. We purchase especially strengthened outer cartons and pack each guitar in a way that guarantees the guitar will come out the box as it went in - perfect. To ensure anyone can benefit from this highly personalized service we subsidize the delivery costs from our pocket - not yours, resulting in the following delivery charges*Įvery guitar is packed personally by Richard.

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