30/04/2015
This poor guitar born in 1978 was left in a case for many years, possibly decades. Its paint was flaking off, all metal parts were corroded, green and flaking, some body damage where something was sitting or dropped on the case with the guitar inside pushed on and into the k***s and cracked the top of the body. Was like digging up a pirates guitar. Was in a very poor state.
its owner wasn't in any hurry and thought it was heading for the fireplace, so I took my time with this beauty, complete strip down, and extreme cleaning and a half, after a while of soaking in wd40, scrubbed, fine polished and cleaned, all the metal parts were shining again, the frets were shining and smooth as could be without replacing the frets, the neck was adjusted and matted on the back to make playing nice and fast, the pickups I wax dipped as they were extremely noisy and extremely microphonic. The flaking paint on the sides of the body were so bad, as the guitar was adjusting to being out of its slightly damp case, the wood dried, and the paint wasn't even attached or touching the bodys wood sides. It was flying off in shards everytime I touched the body. With ease it all just came off in a minute or so, I thought that a respray was over the top and would lose the guitars character, so I exposed the old Mahogony and oiled and waxed and polished the sides, something a bit different. Rewired all the wiring loom, new solder without the corrosion, cleaned and lubed all the pots, switch and jack socket. Also expirimented and shieled the inside with simple foil to help reject some noise further. Seemed to work a treat. The waxed pickups, with the shieldng made this guitar reject noise almost as much as a modern guitar. This guitar turned out to not just be playable again, but an actual real character indeed. The pots were only availible on this guitar, as with its highly sought after Super70's pickups. A very nice treat to work with. Felt very attached to this guitar as I restored it back into a new century.
