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Andrew , I finally got some DAddario super light nickel strings put on and wow, did that make a differance !! Maybe the neck surgery won't be necessary just yet. As for the tuners ,the orig. grovers have been replaced long ago. There also seems to be extra screw holes under the pickgaurd . The third ...

Andrew; That's the same surround and pickgaurd (without the cracks)that was on her in 1981 .Before that I couldn't tell you .I have had the tuners off and noticed that they had been changed from smaller ones. Don't know if it means anything but in the controll cavity it has "4001-D" writen in red ...

What a great beauty you have!!! Do I have the incorrect trim on my bridge PU ? As fo the strings I used GHS or Rotosound 45-105 .Do they make a low tension string ?

Andrew , The jack plate reads HL 1695. I've owned her since 1983, Someone had added a extra PU where the mute was .Great tone variations .I mostly played her through a 70's Fender 100 tube amp with the angled 4x12 cab.

I'm trying to learn how to get my pics from my computor to the post .Any easy suggestions?

After 28 or more years of nightclub abuse my beloved 68 4001 has finally become a chore to play due to string heigth. The neck is straight and the bridge is bottomed out but it must be giving at the neck joint area. So I had this dumb idea to buy a new body and pull all the guts and hardware from my ...