Great score! I'm envious.
Is it actually a hollow body or a semi-solid? You should be able to see if there's a centre block by looking thru the f-holes. From looking at the design, I'd guess it's a semi, but the bridge is mounted on a piece of wood, not directly into the body, which usually indicates it's fully hollow. But the bolt on neck usually means semi-solid. It might even be "semi-semi-solid" with a solid section at the neck joint that ends where the neck pup starts.
By the way - GFS WRHP "re-issues" are just bog-standard humbuckers in a a cool cover - they're like the modern Fender WHRP "re-issues" but completely different to real 70s WRHPs.
There's a good chance that the original pickups are actually single coils with an empty place where the second coil should be... so a set of cheap buckers from GFS will help things along, but I'd spend a little more money and get something cooler, if it were mine.
and Easter apparently means Free Guitar Day somewhere.....
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(wow, those Nationals are cool)
There are actually more variations on the semi-hollow theme: some guitars have a 1 cm block attached to the top center part only, some have a full block, but only where the bridge goes, some have little wood columns were the bridge is, some have just long strips reinforcing the wood where the pickups are...
There are actually more variations on the semi-hollow theme: some guitars have a 1 cm block attached to the top center part only, some have a full block, but only where the bridge goes, some have little wood columns were the bridge is, some have just long strips reinforcing the wood where the pickups are...
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Re: and Easter apparently means Free Guitar Day somewhere.....
UPDATE:
She's still in the shop at the moment getting setup and new pups. They called me the other day asking if I wanted 200$ worth of Gibson pickups put in it, and I kind of just laughed at them, so Generic Dimarzio PAFs here I come!
I promise promise promise I will take pictures/sound clips when she returns. Really!
-Steve
She's still in the shop at the moment getting setup and new pups. They called me the other day asking if I wanted 200$ worth of Gibson pickups put in it, and I kind of just laughed at them, so Generic Dimarzio PAFs here I come!
I promise promise promise I will take pictures/sound clips when she returns. Really!
-Steve
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It's so hard to understand
Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam
Resident Yamaha Fanboy
COYS