renderit
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I have been looking at this and playing on it for several weeks. I have almost been hoping somebody would give it a good home. Well, today I went in GC while my wife was at an appointment and it was still there. I need some help figuring out whether I was an idiot or not.
First of all, the neck is fabulous. Thin across the fingerboard but deeper than you'd guess. Fells pretty meaty, not like you'd expect. I expected it would sound like a weak fart plugged in; guess again. Damn! This thing competes with my 59 Junior! Rock and roll machine for sure.
Supposedly it is a 1963 SG. All original except tuners. No breaks I can see. I opened up the back and all sure looks original in there compared with those I have seen on the net. The pickguard is warped, but intact (including the point, I have not seen that much). Sounded fabulous at the store both acoustically and plugged in. I changed the strings and now it rattles like hell, but the nut really needs replacing so that doesn't bother me much. The set screws on the ass end of the bridge are gone, but I figure I'd replace the bridge with a corrected 3rd string one anyway. Knobs are pretty bad, chipped up and such but I'd guess easy to replace with correct ones?
So here's my questions:
1) What do you think it's worth?
2) Do you see any problems or know of any I should?
3) By the serial is it a '63 or something else?
4) Should I keep the damn case or throw it out?
5) Any problem replacing the nut with bone or fossil ivory or do you just not do that on this?
6) Should I replace the knobs?
7) Should I replace the bridge?
(All replacements of course I would keep the originals).
Here you go...
First of all, the neck is fabulous. Thin across the fingerboard but deeper than you'd guess. Fells pretty meaty, not like you'd expect. I expected it would sound like a weak fart plugged in; guess again. Damn! This thing competes with my 59 Junior! Rock and roll machine for sure.
Supposedly it is a 1963 SG. All original except tuners. No breaks I can see. I opened up the back and all sure looks original in there compared with those I have seen on the net. The pickguard is warped, but intact (including the point, I have not seen that much). Sounded fabulous at the store both acoustically and plugged in. I changed the strings and now it rattles like hell, but the nut really needs replacing so that doesn't bother me much. The set screws on the ass end of the bridge are gone, but I figure I'd replace the bridge with a corrected 3rd string one anyway. Knobs are pretty bad, chipped up and such but I'd guess easy to replace with correct ones?
So here's my questions:
1) What do you think it's worth?
2) Do you see any problems or know of any I should?
3) By the serial is it a '63 or something else?
4) Should I keep the damn case or throw it out?
5) Any problem replacing the nut with bone or fossil ivory or do you just not do that on this?
6) Should I replace the knobs?
7) Should I replace the bridge?
(All replacements of course I would keep the originals).
Here you go...
