Wired Wood
Guitars
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It turns out that these guitars were built for just a couple of years at the start of the 1980's and are generally well regarded. They regularly sell on e-bay for over £150. Harmony central contributors also have a lot of good to say about them. Worth my while to fix it up then. New knobs and a pot cost ten quid. A fiver for fresh strings. Tons of WD40 and a new bolt sorted out the bridge. Lemon oil and polish spruced up the neck and body. Once again relief, action and intonation needed a tweak. Plug it in. Wow! This is a very nice guitar. The perfect partner to my Yamaha Pacifica. Where the Pacifica apes Fender, this one thinks its a Gibson SG. All that mahogany, set neck and hum-buckers. Indeed this guitar is now my number 2. Because of the cosmetic body damage it has little monetary value. I think it adds character. Despite its other charms, the frets were in just too bad a state. I couldn't get the guitar to play in tune. Fortunately, having already built a guitar from scratch, I had the confidence to re-fret it myself. To read how, click below.
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This guitar was another car boot purchase. The bodywork was in a sorry state,
with lots of dents and scratches. The front has a number of holes in it as if it
has had darts thrown at it and there is a big chunk out of the headstock where
it has clearly been dropped. The frets are wafer thin and it had a knob missing.
The bridge was locked solid and the whole thing was filthy. I recon it must have
been gigged a bit! On the plus side it is a nice heavy mahogany guitar with a
set neck and the pickups are a pair of Di-Marzio hum-buckers. A PAF at the neck
and a super distortion at the bridge. For just £15 I had to give it a home.
worst case scenario I would get £50 for the pickups on e-bay. 
