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Hi everyone,

I am new to this but decided try my hand at restoring my bronco. Its been sitting here for a while, getting beat up but the electronics dont work and the nut is broken.

I have already started working on it and the body will be black with a black pickguard.


DSCI0078 by daveclake, on Flickr


DSCI0075 by daveclake, on Flickr

Does anyone have recomendations for tuners and a nut?

Looks like a lost cause to me, send it to me for proper disposal.

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Wilkinson-E ... p_886.html

These are what I have been using on my last few projects.

Will those fit without modifying the headstock?

I also would like to know where I could get a decal for this..my headstock is nasty but I'm afraid to touch it and loose the decal.

How nasty exactly? Need moar photos.

Here's a picture of the headstock and damaged nut.


DSCI0076 by daveclake, on Flickr

those tuners and decal look fine. do you what you want but you should know that if you do more than change the nut, you'll be making it worth less.


the paint doesn't look original, so repainting it should be fine, but if it is the original paint then you're better off not repainting. I also wouldn't change the pick guard if it is the original as well. I think the guitar looks great as it is, I'm not totally sure what the appeal to "restoring" it would be but do what you want.

I think it looks great too, I'd just fit a nice new nut and give it a good setup and be done with it.

portugalwillie wrote:those tuners and decal look fine. do you what you want but you should know that if you do more than change the nut, you'll be making it worth less.

Just give it a clean. Then see where you want to go from there.

Ooops.. I've already started refinishing. Kinda hurts cause it was the original finish...oh well.

The headstock has some chipping of lacquer at the back and the tuners are rusted which kinda bothers me.


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Started the body refinish ?

I would say leave it all apart from a giving it very good clean.... it's likely the price you spend in replacement parts will be thrown out of the window and you'll be devaluing the instrument at the same time.

I think you could easily bring that guitar to a more than presentable condition without sacrificing any of that.

I've seen people restore rusty parts like that with great success.... mainly bike parts. They use the old coca-cola and tin foil trick along with auto-sol and the like.

If it isn't the guitar you want then I would sell and buy something you'll appreciate more... to me this is the ideal project, you don't need to buy / change anything.

Wow, I feel really bad now...by refinish I mean the body already has the first coat of black paint.

Guess I messed this one up.

shit i think that finish could be original... like... maybe on my broncoblaster?

yeah, that sucks. it will literally cut the value of the guitar in half if you refinish it.

which isn't a big deal if you plan on keeping it, just be forewarned.

I don't have any plans on selling it so guess that doesn't matter. No use me crying over spilt milk.

If you don't plan on selling it then do what you want with it. It sucks if it was the original finish, but if you weren't happy with it, and you want to get it to a place where you are happy with it so you can keep it, then go ahead. Broncos still aren't the most desirable fender guitars, except among people like us on this board. And yours wasn't exactly in "top dollar" shape as it was, so even if you did try to sell it in that condition with the original finish you probably wouldn't have fetched much more than you would for a properly refinished one.

I know this hurts for allot of you to look at but this is what its becoming. It has already got another coat since this one.


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Nah, fuck all of that purity shit. The finish was all kinds of shitty. It looks good in black. Keep on and don't feel bad.

I'd probably replace those tuners too. I hate rusty tuners. Fuck the value, just make it play nice. Just don't do anything dumb like route it.

Nah, I had originally thought about routing it but I want it to remain a bronco. So I'm leaving it with the one pickup.

dclake wrote:Nah, I had originally thought about routing it but I want it to remain a bronco. So I'm leaving it with the one pickup.

This is the important bit....I'd rather have a nice looking refinished guitar as long as it's not hacked up.

That black paint looks a little spotty....spray can?