MetalMan

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Hello, I have a 1983 NJ Mockingbird that has been sitting in the closet forever because it has some MAJOR body damage around the controls area. I did not find this out until i stripped the primer off it after i got it. So it sat. Won a bridge on ebay the other night for it so i figure it is time to bring it back to life. Catalog scan from 1983 says it is supposed to be Maple, but i don't think it looks like maple. Far from being any kind of woodworking expert, what do i know. After scanning google images it looks more like Alder. Or even maybe some type of Mahogany? I cut the offending corner of the guitar off with the plan of gluing up a chunk of wood to it to rebuild that part of the guitar. I want to use the same type of wood and have the grain run the same to hopefully keep expansion/contraction problems to a minimum. I figure that is the way to do it. I hope someone can tell me from the picture what type of wood it is. Thanks for your time.

What model of EX is it? I have an old EX 170 and i do believe that in a Musicians Friend from back then stated it was hard maple. I will see if i can find it and make sure. Some pictures would be cool as i have been thinking about stripping my EX.

One of my Kramers did that, not that bad i don't think, hard to tell for me. I drilled mine out and glued in a dowl. Not sure if that would work for you though.

Does it say in the auciton if he excepts paypal or not? Just get a money order. You have to know someone with a car, right?

Yes the striker model was the low end Kramer, but, if i remember right some early models are known to have solid wood bodies as opposed to ply. and yes early Floyds did not have fine tuners. So this may be an early model of striker. If it has a solid body or not you cant know until you buy it. Defintaly not worth the buy it now price. Focus models are excellent guitars for the price(although they seem to be going up lately) they can be bought at. Solid bodies, real floyds etc.... I have a Focus 3000 i picked up for $120 and a Focus 4000 i got for $125. I would avoid the striker if possible. but would be suitable i say for a beginner to see how they like playing guitar before they plunk down some real cash.

Ace had a les paul that had lights(led's ?) underneath a plexiglass type top. it would flash in different patterns.