The story is that his wife had loaned $100 in the 70s to her boyfriend - he wanted to give her something of value as collateral. Obviously, he never paid off the loan (typical musician!). Long story short, some 30 years later my friend Kurt brings this to work to have me check it out:
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Many more photos can be found here:
http://www.pbase.com/dbasica/66_mustang
It's a '66 Mustang. Refin'd in poo brown stain. Pickup covers removed, and the bridge PU has loose windings.
What's the best approach here?
Sell it as is?
Fix the obvious problems and sell it?
Refin it back to Dakota Red (original color - see photo, nice shim in the neck pocket!) and try to make a few bucks on it?
It is obviously worn, but the neck is straight and it played well with the four strings that were on it. The neck PU switch is broken. The decal seems to be missing the gold ink. There's corrosion on the electronics, bridge, and most screws. The neck is worn but nice, as is the perloid guard (Hmmm...aged perloid looks REALLY nice!). Everything else looks like it will clean up nicely with some brute force. Most likely one or both PUs will need to be rewound (I'm sure the dork who once owned this thought it sounded better with the PU covers removed -- even IF the windings would be exposed -- DOH!).
I'm all ears as to what you guys and gals think I should do with this one! Remember, it's not mine -- I want to help a friend out to make a few bucks.
DB
P.S. And yes, I photograhped it on another weird rug (weird drugs!) in my house. So kill me! And yes again, I've thought about getting it for myself, but I do NOT need another guitar, let alone a short scale (I have big hands).