jp
Senior Member
Sweet Jesus, that's beautiful work, Brad! I would love to hear how that sounds!
I know, that makes no sense!
yup, it looks out of place and the paint being removed is definately not original and I would not have removed it. I have never had an issue with nitro on the back of necks. If you keep them clean and such I don’t think they are sticky. I will enjoy playing it in its current state for a little while but I wouldn’t be surprised if that neck ends up being a nice shiny black nitro! Thanks for the additional thoughts and commentsThat's correct. In most cases, body dings would be left alone, but neck finish would be restored to safeguard the wood/action, so purely a practical reason.
To boot, the paint removal is horrible, you'll come to this conclusion soon enough, it's artificial looking, there's no reason for it, and it's out of place with this so nicely restored guitar. You can take the shine off nitro on back of neck with 0000 steel wool, some people think it's faster, less sticky.
Go for the Gold.
Do it ;[]
They just have a center hole on each side which the height adjustment screws thread into. I have seen other Guild white top dearmond pickups with this center hole so I am curious if this is how the late 1960 ones were mounted that had the back pickup rings.Brad, nice work. Been tossing around the idea of doing something similar in a reissue M-75 if I can ever find one in black for a decent price.
Just curious, how are these mounted, internally? I can only infer that by the single screws mounting the pickups on each side of the ring that there is another smaller pickup ring with the four corners of the dearmond casing mounted underneath, that also has a centered single hole on each side to be able to mount that ring to the external ring we see on the top of the guitar. Is that correct? Or would they have just drilled a centered hole in the DeArmond casing on each side and mounted it like that? Been curious to know how the vintage "special" models would have had it done.
Ah cool, thanks for that. That is certainly a lot simpler than having a second ring to mount it to hahaha.