New Boy

[gman]

Welcome to the forum, Gman..........just wondering what kind of guitars you use in your bands...........

Roger

At last night's gig is was a Strat with GK2a/GR20 a Jem and a 70s Kay.

[Dennisthe Menace]

Thanks for the greetings all and Hi Dennisthe Menace

I spent several months in Deerfield many years back and was over your way a
couple of weeks ago - what happened to weather? Did it pick up yet?

Nope, but I'm digging it! We didn't start getting any kind of cold weather until DEC.
Heck, we almost set a record of 100 degrees in NOV !
And BTW, we DID hit 100 back in June.....

Again, welcome Kirk .....

[gman]

This arrived yesterday

[Dennisthe Menace]

Suu-weeet guitar!!! Looks as though the previous owner did
not quite understand on how to restring the guitar .....

[Sarah93003]

Gorgeous guitar! Ditto on the string job.

[gman]

dry joint found and resoldered last night

a careful polish

its looking and sounding good now

[gman]

. . .. and while repairing (and removing excess solder) I uncovered 6 digit pot codes on the back rather than the side. On the 60's 7 digit pots the 4th and 5th are the year but where is it on these 6 digit 70's pots? Can anybody give me an idea how to decode these please? Large print pot code is 504042. There is an additional smaller font size number "88 111 1" beneath (with spaces as shown).

[Veenture]

Very nice guitar gman, congrats. Are you planning on installing the "tremelo" arm or just leaving it with the "hardtail" set-up? We'd like to see a picture now after you did your polish job on it!

[gman]

. . .. and while repairing (and removing excess solder) I uncovered 6 digit pot codes on the back rather than the side. On the 60's 7 digit pots the 4th and 5th are the year but where is it on these 6 digit 70's pots? Can anybody give me an idea how to decode these please? Large print pot code is 504042. There is an additional smaller font size number "88 111 1" beneath (with spaces as shown).

Best answer I can find this-morning is:

That's standard Noble potentiometer numbering and has nothing to do with the exact age of the potentiometers. These numbers just say which one's 500K linear and which one's a 500K logarithmic pot.
tone pot #504042,
volume pots #504072

which confirms my thinking that this has been rewired at some point keeping the original pickups and switch but replacing pots and knobs (and adding some foil in the cavities).