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I'm looking at buying this guitar:

http://imgur.com/a/w0BO7

It's an imgur album because I'm incompetent at posting pics here.

What do you guys think of it? Finish has obvi been stripped. Prolly needs some fretwork.

I'm getting a great deal on it, anything to be concerned about?

I think stangs are the best. If you can afford a budget for fretwork after purchase, I say let it rip!

I love stripped old beauties like that. No chance to play it first I take it? It'd be a tough call without a clear sense of the neck and the frets. Unless the price was crazy low.

kosta wrote:...It'd be a tough call without a clear sense of the neck and the frets. Unless the price was crazy low.

Yes.

And I'm not a short scale expert, but I think those pickups are strat pups. I'd be a bit hesitant, but I'd go for it. I like my jaguar and a Mustang that's pre-CBS is worth something (to some).

I'd be worried I would pay for an exorbitant amount to get it in a playable condition.

I wouldn't pay too much for it, aside from the obvious issues I suspect it has had a lot of the original hardware swapped out. That chrome looks way too shiny on a guitar with that much wear, particularly the bridge. The tuners should have plastic buttons as well.

The pickups could be the originals with the cover removed, but I can't tell from those photos.

I actually DO have a chance to play it before I buy it. I'm thinking that I'll take a couple screwdrivers and an extra set of strings.

I'll take it apart and if it's not legit I'll give the dude some strings to put back on it.

Couple more pics.

WayToHip wrote:

kosta wrote:...It'd be a tough call without a clear sense of the neck and the frets. Unless the price was crazy low.

Yes.

And I'm not a short scale expert, but I think those pickups are strat pups. I'd be a bit hesitant, but I'd go for it. I like my jaguar and a Mustang that's pre-CBS is worth something (to some).

I'd be worried I would pay for an exorbitant amount to get it in a playable condition.

not strat pickups - you can tell that they're mustangs without their covers because they're flat pole magnets (strats would be staggered) and they've grey bobbins which is right for the year.

Yea, those pickups look like the ones on my '64-66s I owned in the Stone Age with covers off.

That said, they weren't anything to write home about as PUs, previous owner of my main one had replaced the neck with an *early* EMG single coil, and it smoked. I almost never took it off the neck PU because of that

Stripped also looks correct, it was the VERY in vogue thing to do to them in the 70s to look like the current production hippie shit - sort of like painting the tweeds and blonde amps black. Missing logo on a natural refin was common too - two of mine had that. Neck stamp looks right.

If it plays right and isn't fucked up, I still wouldn't pay *that* much for it, even an actual pre-CBS early model isn't worth what the market says it is these days for what they are.

Collector value is trashed with refin and no logo as well. Given refin and stripped logo, I'd also bet that some of the chrome is replacement parts. Never seen a refin without obviously worn stuff (especially looking at those screws) and that was 25 years ago when they were a hundred bucks in that shape.