With this guitar after all those years, I've started again playing.
And like everything it's difficult to start from the beginning, your
fingers are soft and stiff, the callosity on the fingertops has been
gone, but in time everything got better.
This guitar wasn't a beauty. The original had a black scratchplate
with large screws.
With a new mother of pearl scratchplate, measured to it's dimen-
sion with a fret-saw and the finishing touch of the border, fine
stainless steel screws, it looks like better than it ever was. The
cover-up plate at the back still is black, and behind the plate the
suspension bridge has been locked, because everytime the guitar
was out of tuning.
Electronical everything was wrong. It has crackling pots and
there was a certain soundcombination of pots, like the Direstraits
with a very heavy humming and the plug-in has to be repaired. So
be done, everything has been repaired and works fine now.
The Amplifier, which belongs to the guitar, had an 30 watts out-
put and sounded very nice. It had high- and low tones and a gain.
I already had a electronical guitar-tuner, a luxury not known in
the early 1960's, but now very easy in use.
The age of this guitar is something to debate on, some dating-
lists told me, that this guitar was a 1972 model, but that's open to
doubth.
Anyone who can help ME with this guitar ?
