Quantum Strummer
Senior Member
This is one for the geeks amongst us. Me, for example! Elderly recently took in a very clean '58 Explorer for appraisal and video'd part of the process. The guitar has a middle pickup installed (via a crude-ish rout) and all three pickups are Patent #s (one is missing its sticker). The pots date to '58. Was the guitar originally shipped and sold in '58? If so, what happened to its PAFs? Or was it left in the factory partially built in '58 and then later completed (as was the case with some Flying Vs)? Who did the routing for the middle pickup and when?
The fellow in the video doing the appraisal is Steve Olson. At one point you see a photo of a younger Steve (with hair!) along with three original Flying Vs. Back in the day I got to play two of 'em and also briefly had my hands on the third.
The video runs ~40 minutes:
https://youtu.be/AXLkAwLW2HA
-Dave-
The fellow in the video doing the appraisal is Steve Olson. At one point you see a photo of a younger Steve (with hair!) along with three original Flying Vs. Back in the day I got to play two of 'em and also briefly had my hands on the third.
The video runs ~40 minutes:
https://youtu.be/AXLkAwLW2HA
-Dave-
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