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Hello All….. I am new to this site and need some help please.
I acquired an electric guitar from a friend…I have heard that it is a Memphis Fender copy….a Strat or Tele…but I have no clue.
It was a complete mess…I mean Nasty….Cigarette burns on it…and coated with tar….The guy I got it from painted the pic guard with acrylic paint and used different color electrical tape to make stripes on it…
I took the guitar from him…and cleaned it up pretty wicked !!!!!
I basically cleaned everything…resoldered everything electrical on the guitar…Restrung the guitar…and it sounbds decent… but I would like to know exactly what this guitar is and how old it is…what it went for and what its worth now if anything.
I have pics of the guitar… but I dont know how to post pics here..
Help Please !!
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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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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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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.htmland 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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Here are some pics of the guitar that I am trying to identify.. Thanks for all help and patience.
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q76/Nocturnalmale74/100_1260.jpg
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Did you not see the thread entitled Posting Pics on “Guitarsite”? https://www.guitarsite.com/hotlicks/viewtopic.php?t=658
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