Oh yeah, two holes! It does seem that left handed builds were treated as rarities, so would make sense.fuzzjunkie wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 9:07 amThat polyfill or wood filler under the bridge is odd. I wonder what sort of repair that was for? Perhaps the wood underneath the bridge rotted a bit from sweat or something? I’ve never seen anything like that before.
The body is a refin, but I disagree that it was stripped down to the bare wood and that there is no Fullerplast. I can see the yellowing on the bare side of the pocket and the original paint stick shadow here:
The other thing I noticed was that the nail holes on the neck have been filled too. You can see them here between the upper screw holes:
On my ‘61 Tele there’s only one nail hole and here there’s two, so I wonder if that’s because it’s a left handed neck? I don’t know Fender’s manufacturing process but the neck would get a nail to hold it in place. I’m guessing someone added the nail on the right side (same place as mine) out of habit before realizing it was a supposed to be a left hand neck and moved it to the correct place.
As to the body, I’m wondering if that filling is covering more routing. I thought it was the paint coming up & didn’t want to disturb it in case I needed to return it. But now that I think about it, it was deep to be paint… he did have a synth pickup on it in the 80s, but didn’t think you’d need a different bridge etc
