The Spartan electric guitar with a big chunk taken.Teisco KB-2 vintage Japanese bass guitar from 1967.Surfmaster guitar with "reverse" body as listed on.A few natural knocks I am not going to worry about). (Actually, I think a guitar with this finish would look better "worn-in", but I'm not about to take sandpaper to it, or to knock it about with screwdrivers or whatever. This also meant that I had unscrewed components resting on the top of the guitar, and I did manage to make a few small dents between the bridge and the control plate - I'm not too worried about that, you could say I'd begun to "relic" the guitar. It was also tricky getting into the pickup cavities seeing as the pickups and controls were still all wired up together, but I really didn't want to completely disassemble the guitar, and de-solder the pickups, etc. I found it easiest to cut and stick very small sections at a time. By the way, that copper foil is extremely adhesive and when the backing sheet is peeled away it has a tendency to curl up and stick to itself.
But just to make sure that contact was being made I spread out the individuals strands of wire and then stuck these down in place with another small piece of copper foil. I was thinking I'd need to take a wire from the back of the volume pot and ground it to the bridge plate, but I found that (despite the hum) this had already been done. Uh-oh! It's that old problem of a guitar not being properly shielded and/or grounded. On a less positive note, I noticed considerable hum from the guitar, especially when I removed my hands from the strings. But yeah, it gives a good Tele twang, and I guess the pickups could always be upgraded if so desired, although a new set of pickups could easily cost more than the guitar itself! I used this guitar at band practice this week and I found I was having to roll off the tone all the time, especially on the bridge pickup (hey, good thing this wasn't a Strat-type guitar!). Of course these pickups are not going to be the world's best, but having said that they don't sound bad. Well, it sounds Tele-like, no surprises there. Perhaps it could do with a light fret-dress, a few of the fret ends were slightly rough, but I've known other guitars costing considerably more that far more urgently needed attention in this area. Even the action and the intonation seem OK I'm not saying they couldn't be improved upon, but essentially the guitar was ready to go right out of the box. I'm thinking at this point that the guitar is easily comparable to a Squier-branded Tele, and at a fraction of the price.
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