I got this guitar in the mail for 280 dollars, and it was supposedly signed by a musician. Not only is it missing a COA, but also needed extensive repairs. Aside from missing one of the white spacers around the D-string tuning peg, it had high action on the high frets, was missing a bridge, had almost all of the wiring cut or badly resoldered, missing a trem/bridge ground wire *the hole for it was filled with silicone, which I had to pull out to get the bridge ground wire channel unplugged), was missing strings, was completely rusty and needed cleaning on the inside, had a loose output jack, and now works great (aside from needing a spacer under the bridge pickup). ...What a great deal I got! It's getting hard to find old guitars, nowadays.
Got the exact same thing here... $15CAD, but fully stripped of everything except the tuners. Luckily used the "tan line" on the body to recreate the plastic part and 3D printed some custom pickup rings for mini-buckers that I had sitting around. Not done yet but, nice to see I'm not the only one who likes these old guitars.
Hi, I've just refurbished one of these myself. Refret, new neck binding and a respray, nothing fancy though. Also rewired as it wasn't working, I'm surprised how nice it actually sounded.
F.y.i its a kay 2T, i have one date stamp on mine(on the neck heel)1969 .trem is for decoration purposes really ,i fitted a stop bar tail piece .love mine
I got this guitar in the mail for 280 dollars, and it was supposedly signed by a musician. Not only is it missing a COA, but also needed extensive repairs. Aside from missing one of the white spacers around the D-string tuning peg, it had high action on the high frets, was missing a bridge, had almost all of the wiring cut or badly resoldered, missing a trem/bridge ground wire *the hole for it was filled with silicone, which I had to pull out to get the bridge ground wire channel unplugged), was missing strings, was completely rusty and needed cleaning on the inside, had a loose output jack, and now works great (aside from needing a spacer under the bridge pickup). ...What a great deal I got! It's getting hard to find old guitars, nowadays.
Got the exact same thing here... $15CAD, but fully stripped of everything except the tuners. Luckily used the "tan line" on the body to recreate the plastic part and 3D printed some custom pickup rings for mini-buckers that I had sitting around. Not done yet but, nice to see I'm not the only one who likes these old guitars.
be interested to see your final guitar... I thought this guitar was very good indeed.
Nice sg style body and sounds great
Hi, I've just refurbished one of these myself. Refret, new neck binding and a respray, nothing fancy though. Also rewired as it wasn't working, I'm surprised how nice it actually sounded.
F.y.i its a kay 2T, i have one date stamp on mine(on the neck heel)1969 .trem is for decoration purposes really ,i fitted a stop bar tail piece .love mine
Look forward to you working your magic on my seagull! You do great work Austen. I am surprised you don't have more subs and likes.
Only started the Channell a short time ago and I am not promoting it until I get a lot more videos... caio. :-)
@@LennonLuthierFinagler ah right cool, makes sense 👍👍👍