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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3951
Location: "Hit The North"
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I concur; a 3-piece ash body (solid, no ply) and a maple neck with maple fingerboard. From the headstock shape, I'd guess it's a 1970s copy. There are a number of limited reviews here:
http://www.musicgearreview.com/review-display/10293.html
and a suggestion that the instrument is not worth a great deal, around $200, probably worth keeping if you enjoy it rather than selling for relatively small money. |
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NocturnalMale74
Groupie
Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Posts: 11
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Does anyone know possibly how old this guitar is ?? I was told it is around 25 years old.. See above for pics.... Blonde Memphis Fender Strat Copy....
What did it go for NEW...and what is it possibly worth these days if anything ??......
Thanks in advance...
Andrew |
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NocturnalMale74
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Joined: 21 Sep 2008
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I dont plan on selling it... I spent alot fo time cleaning this bad boy up !!!
I wish I had taked before pics.... it looked like a guitar from the band Stryper......Yellow and black stripes.....but with electrical tape..
Is there anyway for me to upgrade the pickups ????? |
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NocturnalMale74
Groupie
Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Posts: 11
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This Memphis Fender Strat Copy sounds pretty good for what it has been through.... The Volume and Tone knobs I had to clean real good because they were staticky.....I cleaned them with Moisture Displacement Spray...but the knobs and the fret switch still should be replaced...It looks like the Volume and 2 Tone Potentiometers are rates 500 ohms...but I dont know what the fret switch is rated.... Its a 5 position switch..
Also its three pickups......I would like to replace all three...but also instead of a single... I could carve out more space under the pickguard to put a double pickup maybe ???? |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1168
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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| If you want to install a humbucker pickup in, say, the bridge position, it'd be far neater and easier to get a single-coil sized humbucker such as Seymour Duncan's Lil 59. That way you wouldn't have to carve the guitar up (which would definitely devalue it further) - the pickup would fit the existing cavity and hole in the scratchplate and could be swapped back to a single-coil if desired. |
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