hans-jürgen Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 (edited) I posted this today on the Sputnikmusic forum where I found the link to this board, so I'll just copy & paste what I wrote there. OK, here I go with some scans of old paper photos, but I have to give you the direct URLs for the first two pictures, because the forum software cannot embed image URLs with a "plus" character in them: http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/...ls120+strat.jpg The one on the left is a late '60s hollowbody Höfner Club 40 modded with a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck humbucker at the bridge and new Schaller M6 Mini tuners. The neck had come off, it was painted black on the top, so it was quite a bit of work to get rid of all the lacquer. As a finish I stained and waxed it which feels great. I use it as a slide guitar now, because the neck is too warped backwards to do anything else with it. The Tokai LS120 has Gibson P-94 single coils now, in 1981 the original pickups were DiMarzio PAFs which sound great in that guitar, too. But I have another Tokai LS60 with Gibson Shaw PAFs, so I like the different sound of the P-94s in this guitar. The first owner had Schaller M6 tuners installed as well. The strat on the right side is self-built from different parts, i.e. a Mighty Mite 1-piece quilted maple body, hardtail and other brass parts from Rockinger, and an ESP maple neck. The pickups are three Seymour Duncan SSL-1. I tested a lot of different wirings with them, but will probably only keep the additional neck+bridge combination in parallel and maybe in series and definitely the middle+bridge pickup in series combination. http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/...t+335_small.jpg The Ibanez on the left is a 1978 Musician MC300 where I changed the pickups like crazy, so it needed special Rockinger brass frames to cover the bigger cavities of the original pickups. I also changed the bridge to a 1-stop brass bridge/tailpiece later. The Luxor 335 copy on the right has the same bridge in chrome and two Seymour Duncan '59s with additional mini-switches for parallel and single coil wiring. Last but not least here are two pictures of my "work in progress", a Höfner 465/S/E3 archtop from 1963 which some fool had painted black on the top and neck. I still have most of the necessary hardware parts, but may have to work on them as well, e.g. the original 511 pickups. http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_back.jpg Edited August 12, 2006 by Maiden69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurits Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 That '63 Hofner is a beautiful guitar!!! The rest looks pretty good as well, the Ibanez in particular. Looking cool man and welcome to the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans-jürgen Posted August 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 (edited) Hi Maurits, seems you like the archtop, so here are some more pictures of it: http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_neck.jpg http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_neck_back.jpg http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_headstock.jpg http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_tuners.jpg http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_heel.jpg http://people.freenet.de/bluezz_bastardzz/465_side.jpg By the way, what was the problem with the picture of the back, was it too big/long? Edited August 13, 2006 by hans-jürgen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matttheguy Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 One picture per post, that's what the problem was. No biggie, as long as you edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans-jürgen Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Oops, didn't know that, so I have to check the rules here it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurits Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Thanks for the extra pics buddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. pierce Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 The slot around that missing fret on the archtop looks rather wide - from the photo I can't tell, it might just be compressed wood or something - but has that thing got old-style bar frets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans-jürgen Posted August 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 (edited) Yeah, I know what you mean... Here's a better picture of that part: The reason why the slot looks so wide is that the upper part of the rosewood inlay is also missing. You can compare it with the intact 12th fret, it's a combined rosewood/mother of pearl inlay on an ebony fingerboard. This is one of the biggest problems with that guitar which I'm probably not able to solve myself, i.e. give it to a professional luthier. Some of the higher frets do look weird, too, and I'm not sure if Hofner installed them or if it was a bad attempt of refretting them later. On the other hand they normally are hardly ever used and wouldn't need to be refretted, and I've seen pictures of other old Hofner archtops which have similar bad high frets... Edited August 14, 2006 by hans-jürgen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom22 Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 All of them look great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans-jürgen Posted August 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Thanks, here's another one done during the pickup comparison for the Tokai forum: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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