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Vol Tone Tone (Vintage guide to Pre CBS Fender Knobs)

There's a lot of hoopla about knobs, some vintage knobs sell for as much as $100 each (ounce for ounce more than gold). If you're looking for knobs study these pics, look at the shades, spokes, ridges, tooling, "tits", font, point and nuances. You'll be better for it.

Vintage Fender Stratocaster Pre CBS knobs, made of bakelite, vinyl, plastic, nitrate.

1961/62 rare Gibson Les Paul SG

This was a fun project. I had a customer restoring an extremely rare 1961 Gibson Les Paul (SG). The owner is a vintage guitar fanatic, knowing the specs and details to the finest degree.
Exact pictures of others from this year were provided to follow.
As well as set up and playability, one concern was getting the electronics to a vintage spec and look. Black decal PAF pickups were matched and added & metal covers waxed in, as were original coded pots etc.

Even the rare pickguard and plastics were produced.

One thing we had to peg was the color of the wiring and the manner it is layed out. Sometimes you have to "find" period correct stuff.


The classic vibrato had to be dealt with.
Even the case was meticulously sought out and added.
In the end, plays like butter, is super lightweight, and sounds like a million bucks. What a fine vintage guitar!!!