Recent content by SixtiesRick

Some years ago I had a neighbor, a single dad, and I got to know him because our boys were the same age, same school, and they lived right up the street. He and I got to be great friends, we both liked to party, we would sit back on the deck and put away the Jack and Cokes, share stories from...

Re: Vintage Old Kraftsman archtop electric problem Thanks for the reply. I'll admit I don't know the first thing about guitar electronics, but in talking to the guys that did the restoration on this guitar, they said they'd already done the cleaning of the pots, and that they looked and tested...

Re: Vintage Old Kraftsman archtop electric problem More images from before restoration: After restoration:

Before my dad passed away in 2013, he gave me his guitar, a '49 Old Kraftsman (made by Kay or Gibson) archtop electric. I understand it was, at best, a mid-level guitar, ordered through the Spiegel catalog. It was the first guitar I had ever sat in my lap from the age of seven, and the one I...