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Zombie Thirteen, DFZ
Killer score! Congrats!
Oh, and it came with a non-PRS hardcase - I knew that when I bought it. But that PROrockgear case is relatively flimsy. I wouldn't recommend them - a gig bag might be better.
Cool guitar! Those look like buttons for Dunlop push-button strap locks.
Is that considered a tobacco burst? It's so classy.
OK, cool, thanks for the info! "Dual Design" seems like a good name, since they work very well as normal strap buttons (which many strap locks do not) - just not as huge as the stock PRS ones.Straplocks are Dunlop Dual Design.
https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/s...ourPicks&refType=&from=fn&ecList=&ecCategory=
Really nice ones, work great on the guitars I have them.
Indeed, it is an alder body.Is that body Alder?
Awesome score! I thought this would be an '88 due to the headstock, they changed to a black headsrock in '89?
May have unstamped Vintage Treble and Bass too...
Cool story about your CE!If I have the story straight, they had to change the name in 89 because Mr. Peavey had a trademark on the name "Classic Electric", so they changed to a black headstock and the name CE. I think they also had to halt building while the legal matter was cleared up so there were 88 necks waiting to be built. When they started up again, they didn't change at the new year, but as soon as the inventory of 88's was used up. What is why you have some 88 necks in 89. I think they even show up on some 90's for some reason.
The original pups were not HFS/Vintage until 91 or 92 IIRC. The pups in my 88 are either the unmarked "Vintage" ones, or the unmarked T&B's. The 5 way is also not original. They had a 3 way DPDT switch and the middle position was a two single coils split from both pups configuration that was pretty interesting. The switch itself did the split. My switch had been worn out and replaced with a regular LP type switch and I had a really hard time getting the original switch but it is possible. Which leads me to an interesting story about mine.
This would have been about 2009. I saw it on CL for a good price. I met the guy in a GC parking lot. He told me to go inside and try to play it because he had tried to replace the worn out switch and now it "sounds funny". At the price he was asking I wanted the guitar no matter the sound so I bought it and took it home. "Sounds funny" was an understatement. My best description would be, it sounded like someone installed a wah pedal in the guitar. I'd never heard anything like it. I guessed it was because of the reversed magnet on the bridge pup, that he probably didn't know about, and so I reversed the leads coming from the bridge pup and the problem cleared up!
I later decided to find the correct switch and put it back original, which is how it is today.
No. As near as I know the only logo prior to the PRS signature was the one you have. It is just that PRS advertised it as the classic electric and so he changed the name to the CE.Cool story about your CE!
The SN on the plate definitely indicates a 1990, so it must have been right on the cusp of getting an old "88/89" neck with "Electric" on it (not "Classic Electric" - did any of them say that?
Questions for all you folks:And yes, the neck finish is nitro.
Questions for all you folks:
1. Is the body finish nitro or poly? Looks/feel like poly, but I want to be sure.
2. Is there a reasonably safe method of touching up the neck where the nitro finish has come off from hanging on something that does't like nitro? Or should I just let it be?
3. I will do some research, of course, but do guitar hangers in general these days have rubber/foam that is nitro-friendly or nitro-abusive?
Questions for all you folks:
1. Is the body finish nitro or poly? Looks/feel like poly, but I want to be sure.
2. Is there a reasonably safe method of touching up the neck where the nitro finish has come off from hanging on something that does't like nitro? Or should I just let it be?
3. I will do some research, of course, but do guitar hangers in general these days have rubber/foam that is nitro-friendly or nitro-abusive?
I’ve never taken the risk.Thanks @bodia !
As it turns out, I have a large bunch of String Swing hangers, and they are also nitro-friendly, apparently. Perhaps they use the same material as Hercules.
I also have another brand that I am not so sure of ("Mango Spot"), so I will avoid putting the CE on those.