Tater_McDoodles
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I'm looking at a HBII (non piezo) with a seriel number of 2002 or 2003. Its a 10 top, but has gold hardware (which I thought was reserved only for artist packages?). The owner says that the tone knob has a push-pull control, but it doesn't do anything (i.e coil tap). The guitar also seems to have the original Archtop pickups. Other HBIIs I'm looking at from the same years also have Archtop pups that ARE splittable straight from factory (the specific one happens to be an artist package).
I have to imagine that something was modded on the first guitar. Either the knob/pot was replaced OR the knob is original, but a previous owner had the guitar rewired to undo the coil split.
Maybe its impossible to tell without opening up the guitar, but does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I would like to have coil splits so I might bring it to a tech to get rewired. Would that be possible with the Archtop pickups?
I suppose that I could be getting bad info from the sellers? After all these are 20 year old guitars that have passed hands multiple times - they may not know.
I have to imagine that something was modded on the first guitar. Either the knob/pot was replaced OR the knob is original, but a previous owner had the guitar rewired to undo the coil split.
Maybe its impossible to tell without opening up the guitar, but does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I would like to have coil splits so I might bring it to a tech to get rewired. Would that be possible with the Archtop pickups?
I suppose that I could be getting bad info from the sellers? After all these are 20 year old guitars that have passed hands multiple times - they may not know.