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Unless your guitar already is a player/hotrod with damage or mods, I wouldn't do that - 60's Starfires in original condition have been getting more expensive in recent years

I have those on my '61 SFIII - the originals in a box in the closet. They're good, and they're drop-in replacements for original Grover Statites

well.... He didn't get famous on the Framus

those are great, congratulations!

I'd guess a mammoth company like Yamaha would have a plan, or a backup plan. Interesting development.

not a good trade

That's a damn shame

Try it, see if you like it! It's been my experience that a refret, new nut and a setup are usually not a luxury on a guitar that age. Some of that work might have been done already! It'll probably sound like you Newark Street guitar, but with a lot more character and personality..😀

Horses for courses - I won't be playing this one much at home..!😂

it's an early one with the blue eminence speakers and the EL84 - but a Sovtel EL84M can handle it

I think a lot of us LTG'ers have played more in phase ones than OOP ones - and my taste runs towards Hoboken guitars too. I think out of all of us, Hans has probably inspected the biggest number, so his findings would be interesting that way. Could be an interesting topic for a poll on LTG.

I don't think it was intentional. I had a first year Starfire IV for a while that had the pickups out of phase, and they were un-messed with. Not factory spec for a Starfire IV. Maybe the Guild electronics check after final assembly didn't go deeper than "yup, everthing works, good to...

Depending on how you set the tone controls (they're key to the way it operates), it has some Hiwatt to it - if you hit your guitar hard, it doesn't go squishy or mushy, but it punches back at you fast and hard. And Townsend plays it with the matching closed back 2x12 connected, so it gets...

I got offered such a good deal on this I couldn't resist...a Fender Vibro King! I wanted one bad when they came out around the mid-90's, but they were much too expensive for me. This was the time a good Super Reverb was still cheap, and that's what I (happily) played then. It's a strange...

The very one! He still lives in TX, and he still has that Duo Jet! Probably ....more than 15 years ago!:LOL:

Yep, I don't think the out of phase was intentional either

USA-made Bigsbies were and are still sandcast, licensed ones are CNC'd out of aluminium I think

The pickups go to the pots before they go to the switch, so unless anything else was done replacing the switch didn't put the pickups out of phase

A guild B6, or a Bigsby B6 with a short hinge

I have seen people add a rosewood "base" under the Bigsby bridge base to get some extra height. Come to think of it, I think Hans did that very thing on one of my best friends' old Gretsch Duo Jet! I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can get a (Gretsch related) aluminium Bigsby saddle that...