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and 'mojo' is in the player not the guitar
A Story that happened a little while ago: A guitarist came to visit my workshop to have a couple of new pickups popped into his fairly new Les paul. I saw he had brought two cases, and asked what was in the other one. He told me he'd brought one of his other guitars because he knew I liked old instruments, and to open up the case and take a look. Inside was a gorgeous sunburst 62 Strat, a bit roadworn ... but honest wear, not trashed. I asked if I could plug it in and try it, and he said to go ahead, but it wasn't really worth it. I asked why, and he said that the neck and middle pickups hadn't worked for over ten years, bit he wasn't going to open it up as he wanted to keep it all original. So I had in my hand a fairly useless one pickup Strat, or a very expensive door stop. No way would he want the switch checked ... or god forbid a pickup rewound. I see this all the time, and it makes me rather sad, as lovely instruments are there to be played.
The average Stradivarius violin is worth several times the value of a 62 Strat, yet they remain in players hands, with replacement fingerboards as needed, sound posts reset etc etc ...
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Which is ironic since all that has been done to every Stradivari that's playable in the normal sense today. (There's one in a museum with the original flat neck angle, but it would be difficult to use for a modern violinist.)
A friend of mine has a '64 Strat, and one day the bridge pickup died. I was going to send it off to be rewound, but he needed to use the guitar that weekend, and as luck would have it he had a spare Duncan Hot Rails kicking about... so we put that in the Strat temporarily.
It sounded so good that he's never got round to having the old pickup rewound . It always amuses vintage guitar purists every time one sees it too .
I've got a simple rule with vintage gear - if something doesn't need changing for the guitar/amp/whatever to work properly (ie if the part can be cleaned, adjusted, re-tensioned, whatever) then don't change it. If it does need changing to make it work properly, then change it. Or in the case of amps, safe and reliable as well as working properly - some people don't like this...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
http://blog.feinviolins.com/2015/06/your-violin-neck-used-to-be-shorter.html
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
the neck plate screws are even more important. Each one should go back into the same hole every time. The bottom neck side one on a preCBS guitar should always be the most worn by a mile. If I don’t see this, then I know the guitar hasn’t been cared for properly
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Another thing is the ID stands on the end of the fretboard on a stratocaster and are the pots and pickups/wiring still intact after so many years?