doctorwho wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 2:33 am Not intending to douse any enthusiasm, but I recommend looking at the date codes on the potentiometers to confirm that they date to that era and are not modern ones. I have seen a number of "tribute" instruments, made by expert luthiers, that look like the real deal, and it would be good to rule that possibility out.
Exactly. Does all that wood look a bit too perfectly “toasted” to you?
Does that lower pick guard edge bleed show that that is the only old part of the whole guitar?
Is the headstock as a whole seen to be in too perfectly good shape?
Is the finish too uniformly even and slightly matte as can be applied with modern methods?
Nevertheless, I would still be happy make the owner a tidy profit on the instrument.