Hi All,
As some of you may remember, back on 4/20/19 GAD made the post 'Nightbird II on eBay. Three was a discussion about the HB1 pickups being current NS, as they were. Also it was pointed out that some of the hardware was not original, the tailpiece and strap buttons.
Well as it happens I was the one that ended up with that gem. Unfortunately the problems went a little bit beyond the discussion here on LTG.
1. One of the previous owners had frankensteined the bridge
2. The frets need to be dressed
3. It needed a new nut, someone had filled the slot for the D string as deep as the Grand Canyon.
The following are the parts that are original and cleaned:
I was able to acquire the following parts from Hans, your the man: a period correct stop tailpiece, strap buttons, and knobs. I had a bridge laying around from a previous project that never happened. I bought a pair of SD Benedetto A6 pickups, personal choice. You really can't see it in the picture, but I made mounting adapters so I would not have to drill a hole in the pickup ring. Two thing that make me nuts, ruining a guild pickup ring by drilling a hole in it to mount a non-guild pickup, and using a pot that is to small for the hole. Then try to make up for it with washers.
New controls: volume/tone are both push-pull, the volume coil splits the neck pickup, the tone the bridge. Also a phase switch.
So, here it is. As close as I can get it to period correct.
As some of you may remember, back on 4/20/19 GAD made the post 'Nightbird II on eBay. Three was a discussion about the HB1 pickups being current NS, as they were. Also it was pointed out that some of the hardware was not original, the tailpiece and strap buttons.
Well as it happens I was the one that ended up with that gem. Unfortunately the problems went a little bit beyond the discussion here on LTG.
1. One of the previous owners had frankensteined the bridge
2. The frets need to be dressed
3. It needed a new nut, someone had filled the slot for the D string as deep as the Grand Canyon.
The following are the parts that are original and cleaned:
I was able to acquire the following parts from Hans, your the man: a period correct stop tailpiece, strap buttons, and knobs. I had a bridge laying around from a previous project that never happened. I bought a pair of SD Benedetto A6 pickups, personal choice. You really can't see it in the picture, but I made mounting adapters so I would not have to drill a hole in the pickup ring. Two thing that make me nuts, ruining a guild pickup ring by drilling a hole in it to mount a non-guild pickup, and using a pot that is to small for the hole. Then try to make up for it with washers.
New controls: volume/tone are both push-pull, the volume coil splits the neck pickup, the tone the bridge. Also a phase switch.
So, here it is. As close as I can get it to period correct.
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