Trip down memory lane (non prs guitar trigger warning)

[danktat]

Oh My God!!!! My ex wife and daughter are moving to a new house next week and they are doing the last of the deep clean outs. Somehow, stuffed way back in one of the closets was the guitar that I learned how to play on! There are pictures of me, fresh out of high school, in some of the albums here on Facebook playing this guitar. It is grimy as hell, obviously after all these years it will be in need of a good setup, but, I think it may be worth me cleaning this up and playing it. This was certainly a trip down memory lane!

Here it is wayyyyy back in the day, with that same sticker on it...

Again, this was a facebook post so I don't know how long the pix will last. Judging from the replies over there, a lot more people remember that guitar than I would have thought. They ever brought up stories/situations that I, myself had forgotten about until they brought it up.

Just looking this thing over, after all these years, the neck is still straight. AND there is no fret sprout! Not sure how that is possible. I bought it used, at a pawn shop, on 69th Street in Upper Darby [PA], for like $150. IN THE LATE 1990s! I will definitely give this girl a good once over and she how she sounds.

Also, look at the pic of me from the late 1990s. The knobs and pickup covers were completely white. Then look at the ones I took yesterday. I know some of the relic loving S type player would kill for that kind of natural aging on the plastics.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I had one of these but it was fun metal gray w/rosewood board when I was in high school.

I remember begging my buddy Matt to sell it to me for months.

I’d rock it with your band and tell people it’s a boutique build

 

[bodia]

Killer surprise find! Those strings though.........

 

[danktat]

Those strings though.........

Looks like tetanus ready to happen

 

[bodia]

Looks like tetanus ready to happen

That's for sure!

 

[danktat]

You couldn't tell me I wasn't cool as h*ll with all that extra string unclipped at the machine heads.

 

[Max Headroom]

Nice find.
All I usually find at back of closets is like 15 year old cat poop!
Rock that thing like it's 1999!

 

[Tom Bradovich]

Finding lost treasures - great to have happen. Nice of your ex to let you know. Some exes would have tossed it. Great pic of you back in your younger days.

 

[Mike J.]

Too cool!! It's like saying hello to a long lost friend. Get it cleaned up and have fun with it!

I have a Hagstrom 1 that my dad bought for me back in 1966. According to the serial number it's actually a 1962 model.

I've been playing it lately too! One day I'm gonna get around to give it some needed work as the switches and volume pot need to be replaced. But the neck is about as rock solid as you can get.

When I play that guitar it's makes me wonder all the more, where have the years gone?

 

[danktat]

Great pic of you back in your younger days.

Back when I still had HAIR!

 

[Moondog Wily]

Congrats on the reunion! Looking forward to your tone/playability impressions once you get it cleaned up!!

 

[Bogner]

Happy New Guitar Day Again Kinda.

 

[Tom Bradovich]

Back when I still had HAIR!

Yeah, you had hair but no tats. Now you lack the hair but now you have the tats

Hey, if you do clean up and fix up that old relic, post some pics of it so we can see the before & after.

 

[danktat]

if you do clean up and fix up that old relic, post some pics of it so we can see the before & after.

I am definitely going to clean it up and set it up. The only thing I am actually concerned about are the pots and switch. Who knows the level of corrosion that has built up in those things.

 

[WEDGE]

That things got some funky dna still on it!

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Nice Tuna.

 

[danktat]

That things got some funky dna still on it!

Indeed. That is that amateur player mojo ground into that fretboard.

 

[Dirty_Boogie]

Man, that basement...! From the set of Silence of The Lambs? Buffalo Bill on congas

 

[Dirty_Boogie]

@László Les thinks to himself... those strings don't look too bad. Good for a couple more sessions.

 

[Prina]

The only thing I am actually concerned about are the pots and switch.

Deoxit F5 (with the lube) worked wonders on the pots of a 40 year old Yamaha JX-50 amp.

Killer find that absolutely needs new strings. Maybe think twice about cleaning all that 'character' on the guitar body, especially if there are any personal memories attached to the decades old grime!