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Whoever did that tremolo install deserves some Rubber Bullets to the head.
"The guitar had been modified over the years and had a 'Tremelo Arm' fitted and removed at some point"
"A 'Nut Lock' has been fitted to the Headstock, and a 'Tuneable 'Bad-Ass' Bridge' has also been added."
"The wiring has been modified to Gibson 'Stereo', and a Gibson 'Stereo' control has been fitted in place of one of the original 'Tone Controls'."
I don't know why, it just makes me chuckle. 'Tone Controls'. Lol.
If the fingerboard that's on there now was salvaged from a neck break, I think it must have had another re-neck as that's a rosewood board with LP Standard inlays!
Its certainly seen life!
The guitar in question started life - I believe - as an early/mid-50s Gold Top, with P90s. Ted 'converted' it to late 50s spec, by fitting a book-matched maple cap and PAFs from a 335 which also belonged to Eric Stewart, along with a complete refinish. A friend of mine has a picture of the guitar with Ted, presenting it back to Eric Stewart in this guise, after he'd completed the work.
Some time later, Stewart decided he wanted it modifying to a double-cut - so the guitar went back to Ted to have the work performed. Stewart decided he'd made a mistake and asked Ted to return it to a single-cut. By this point, the only way to hide the work was to refinish it in a solid colour - hence why it's now black.
You'll note that not only is it only bound around the top - but that the binding is single, as opposed to Custom style purfling. The headstock is too narrow for a Custom - even though it has a Custom-style inlay and binding. The headstock veneer and fingerboard were salvaged when it was renecked (though the veneer wasn't original). IIRC, Ted refused to fit a Floyd to it - as he reckoned a Gibson-style headstock wouldn't last five minutes with a locking nut installed - so someone else did the work. When he was proved right, it went back to Ted to have it repaired - the photo I've posted was taken around '93/94.
As I said in my previous post - so little of it is original, it's hardly a vintage guitar at all....
@richardhomer - I agree completely - and it's an interesting "Trigger's Broom" point...if the guitar has little or no "Vintage" value (other than a few parts, by the sound of it) and it's been royally (albeit professionally) hacked about over the years, how is it possible to agree on a value (and what does the artist association add to that)?
£65K is blatantly ridiculous.
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Again, it shows that these hallowed 'golden era' guitars we now all covet, were old guitar back then, no thought of future value.
I think the seller is either a little deluded or hoping for a die hard 10cc fan who has a private pension to cash in soon....
(formerly miserneil)
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I'm off now to have a tin of soup - hopefully minestrone today