Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:12 am
My old Gibson. The only original parts are the bridge, tuners, neck pup and the back of the neck. I had a local luthier who had built some guitars for REO replace the fingerboard and body about 1972 and modify other stuff over the following year. At the time, it was pretty radical. We added a Precision pickup under the hand rest, stereo-wired it with two separate circuits, jacks, cords, etc., added a rotary five-way pickup selector switch and a switchable cap on the humbucker to cut the bass when desired and finally put in a master volume control. It will still do some things that none of my other basses can do. It needs a re-fin when I get around to it, but it still sounds great. I replaced the strings in 1975 or '76 with these ultra-smooth Guild tape-wounds. They don't ever seem to corrode and still sound just like they did 30 years ago. I recorded a few commercials on these very strings that some of you probably heard when you were little kids sitting around the TV watching Saturday morning cartoons.
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