Wattage
High Voltologist
Took in my buddy's very sick and crusty 1984 Texas era Saturn to bring it back to fighting condition.
This guitar was his #1 for 20 years, I think he cleaned it once.....maybe. Bought it new in '84 (A series s/n) and retired in in '05, it has pretty much sat in the case since. His main squeeze these days is an HH Strat but he'd like to get this up and running again.
Take care of your guitars mis amigos. Something as simple as wiping down after gigs makes a HUGE difference. If you have very corrosive sweat obviously you need a little more attention to cleaning and maintaining.
Needs a load of TLC and a significant fret level, frets look like bum teeth from 1-12. Most of bridge saddles are corroded beyond use, the knobs are heavily corroded, the set screws were rusted and fused to the knobs. The pots and switches hardly work and aren't worth trying to get clean seeing how poorly this thing is wired.
So the plan -
Take it apart and clean thoroughly
Fret level and re-crown (jumbos with enough meat so thankfully so it doesn't need a re-fret)
Gut and install new 500k p/p pots, switch and jack with re-wire (CTS & Switchcraft)
Graphtech replacement saddles, minor repairs to trem
Change pickups to C5/59 set with coil split
Whatever else I find along the way......
This guitar was his #1 for 20 years, I think he cleaned it once.....maybe. Bought it new in '84 (A series s/n) and retired in in '05, it has pretty much sat in the case since. His main squeeze these days is an HH Strat but he'd like to get this up and running again.
Take care of your guitars mis amigos. Something as simple as wiping down after gigs makes a HUGE difference. If you have very corrosive sweat obviously you need a little more attention to cleaning and maintaining.
Needs a load of TLC and a significant fret level, frets look like bum teeth from 1-12. Most of bridge saddles are corroded beyond use, the knobs are heavily corroded, the set screws were rusted and fused to the knobs. The pots and switches hardly work and aren't worth trying to get clean seeing how poorly this thing is wired.
So the plan -
Take it apart and clean thoroughly
Fret level and re-crown (jumbos with enough meat so thankfully so it doesn't need a re-fret)
Gut and install new 500k p/p pots, switch and jack with re-wire (CTS & Switchcraft)
Graphtech replacement saddles, minor repairs to trem
Change pickups to C5/59 set with coil split
Whatever else I find along the way......
