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Some of you guys are a little down on me for being a guitar whore-der, but in my defense I couldn't resist.
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It's a '68/'69 as near as I can tell. The pot dates are '67, the neck stamp and pickups are from '68 and the serial seems to be between '68 and '69. I dunno for sure. It is a factory refin over comp blue. In the spots where the paint is worn off you can see the blue underneath. The neck finnish still has a gloss to it and feels like it wasn't played too much.

Before anyone yells at me for destroying this vintage beauty take a look at this mayhem

What the piss happend to the routing shit? waow.

It looks like the routing was done by termites.

Sloan wrote:What the piss happend to the routing shit? waow.

Humbuckerz.
It is a shame, the rest of the guitar is in great shape. It doesn't bother me too much though, it will surely get a nice coat of beer and sweat once I start playing it out.

If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"

shit cakes...

i want a comp orange stang soooo bad. there so attractive. total bonerz. but there so expensive.

They should have stuck hot rails in it to begin with jeez.

dodgedartdave wrote:If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"

None of the solder joints on the switches or pots were original anyway.

did you replace the 250k volume pot with a 1meg? Was the tone and capacitor original?

Justin wrote:They should have stuck hot rails in it to begin with jeez.

haha true.

rodvonbon wrote:

dodgedartdave wrote:If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"

None of the solder joints on the switches or pots were original anyway.

he really does say that, too.

Tex-czech wrote:did you replace the 250k volume pot with a 1meg? Was the tone and capacitor original?

I left the tone pot alone and it looks like the cap was replaced at some point. The volume pot is now a 500k.

Sublimedo wrote:

rodvonbon wrote:

dodgedartdave wrote:If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"

None of the solder joints on the switches or pots were original anyway.

he really does say that, too.

Yep. that's my philosophy. If you love and you are going to keep, then screw original; make it the way you want it.

Hey Rodvon, Dont you have a reissue comp orange stang? I think you should sell it to me.

purplehaze19x wrote:Hey Rodvon, Dont you have a reissue comp orange stang? I think you should sell it to me.

I got mine on Ebay, free shipping and no import tax. They are easily available and come up every couple of weeks.

rodvonbon wrote:

purplehaze19x wrote:Hey Rodvon, Dont you have a reissue comp orange stang? I think you should sell it to me.

I got mine on Ebay, free shipping and no import tax. They are easily available and come up every couple of weeks.

Yeah, but, yours is already modded. ....but yeah i'll keep my eyes open for one.

My thought is that if some dumbass already raped a guitar you now own, theres no wrong in taking advantage of whats already been done, I bought a 88 MIJ strat that looked great until I got the PG off and low and behold some doofus had taken a butter knife or something to the rear p'up route, and since there was a WD pg on it I said screw it and made a fat strat. That being said I would NEVER hack up ANY unmolested guitar. To all of those who have screwed great guitars by "modding" them I give you the one fingered salute. Lloyd

Rod...you're cornering the market..that's not fair....blah,blah blah...
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I'm just jealous