Burns GB66 guitar

[burnsbonkers]

YAHOO! HERE COMES THE CRAZY TRAIN! POOP POOP!.

Virginian pickups fitted AFTER it left the factory!?
BOING BOING!.
I can see that this guitar needs a new scratch plate, pickup surround and a nice new (or if you can find It, an original ) bridge.
That's It.
The only other work I can see needs doing to this guitar, is called "playing it " and "not drilling any silly little holes in it "
ALLES KAPUT WALLY WELT!

[ErikMAMS]

Mark,
Have you made any progress on the GB66 restoration?

Watch your PM.

Erik

[marcomadeira]

here is a picture of gb66 nearly complete ...just needs strings and action to be sorted ......

[JimN]

What are those little white objects on the bass side of the scratchplate?

[marcomadeira]

i had to 2 put 2 white caps on 2 screw holes that where done well before my grandad owned the guitar ....that should have not been there .....best solution apart from having it filled and repainted .

[marcomadeira]

anyway i think considering what it looked like its a real improvement ...considering its a 48 year old guitar

[JimN]

i had to 2 put 2 white caps on 2 screw holes that where done well before my grandad owned the guitar ....that should have not been there .....best solution apart from having it filled and repainted .

It might look better if you used black caps (or painted them in black enamel of the sort sold in model railway shops).

I think it lends power to my suggestion that a new central scratchplate be made - one wide enough to cover the screw-holes.

There's plenty of prestigious precedent for it; Gibson used to fix a plastic plate (very possibly made of the same stuff as your scratchplate) over the tailpiece mounting holes on production-line ES335s/345s fitted with a Bigsby (and therefore not needing the tailpiece monting studs):

[JimN]

i had to 2 put 2 white caps on 2 screw holes that where done well before my grandad owned the guitar ....that should have not been there .....best solution apart from having it filled and repainted .

It might look better if you used black caps (or painted them in black enamel of the sort sold in model railway shops).

I think it lends power to my suggestion that a new central scratchplate be made - one wide enough to cover the screw-holes.

There's plenty of prestigious precedent for it; Gibson used to fix a plastic plate (very possibly made of the same stuff as your scratchplate) over the tailpiece mounting holes on production-line ES335s/345s fitted with a Bigsby (and therefore not needing the tailpiece monting studs):

[JimN]

Oooh! A mysterious hole in the scratchplate of that 335...

[marcomadeira]

yes i will paint it black just have not had the time ...lol