NGD 1970 M-75

[jp]

Sweet Jesus, that's beautiful work, Brad! I would love to hear how that sounds!

 

[Guildedagain]

I know, that makes no sense!

That's correct. In most cases, body dings would be left alone, but neck finish would be restored to safeguard the wood/action, so purely a practical reason.

To boot, the paint removal is horrible, you'll come to this conclusion soon enough, it's artificial looking, there's no reason for it, and it's out of place with this so nicely restored guitar. You can take the shine off nitro on back of neck with 0000 steel wool, some people think it's faster, less sticky.

Go for the Gold.

Do it ;[]

 

[BradHK]

That's correct. In most cases, body dings would be left alone, but neck finish would be restored to safeguard the wood/action, so purely a practical reason.

To boot, the paint removal is horrible, you'll come to this conclusion soon enough, it's artificial looking, there's no reason for it, and it's out of place with this so nicely restored guitar. You can take the shine off nitro on back of neck with 0000 steel wool, some people think it's faster, less sticky.

Go for the Gold.

Do it ;[]

yup, it looks out of place and the paint being removed is definately not original and I would not have removed it. I have never had an issue with nitro on the back of necks. If you keep them clean and such I don’t think they are sticky. I will enjoy playing it in its current state for a little while but I wouldn’t be surprised if that neck ends up being a nice shiny black nitro! Thanks for the additional thoughts and comments

 

[matsickma]

Wow! Great job!

 

[rbrcbr]

Brad, nice work. Been tossing around the idea of doing something similar in a reissue M-75 if I can ever find one in black for a decent price.

Just curious, how are these mounted, internally? I can only infer that by the single screws mounting the pickups on each side of the ring that there is another smaller pickup ring with the four corners of the dearmond casing mounted underneath, that also has a centered single hole on each side to be able to mount that ring to the external ring we see on the top of the guitar. Is that correct? Or would they have just drilled a centered hole in the DeArmond casing on each side and mounted it like that? Been curious to know how the vintage "special" models would have had it done.

 

[rbrcbr]

Excuse the rudimentary sketch, but just so you have a visual as to what I’m thinking this looks like: red ring is the outer ring, white is underneath

 

[BradHK]

Brad, nice work. Been tossing around the idea of doing something similar in a reissue M-75 if I can ever find one in black for a decent price.

Just curious, how are these mounted, internally? I can only infer that by the single screws mounting the pickups on each side of the ring that there is another smaller pickup ring with the four corners of the dearmond casing mounted underneath, that also has a centered single hole on each side to be able to mount that ring to the external ring we see on the top of the guitar. Is that correct? Or would they have just drilled a centered hole in the DeArmond casing on each side and mounted it like that? Been curious to know how the vintage "special" models would have had it done.

They just have a center hole on each side which the height adjustment screws thread into. I have seen other Guild white top dearmond pickups with this center hole so I am curious if this is how the late 1960 ones were mounted that had the back pickup rings.

 

[BradHK]

Here is the thread I was thinking about that describes the different ways Guild mounted these pickups when they were not surface mounted. The pickups in the thread have the center holes like mine

Need some HELP with DeArmond Pickups

I just pulled a pair of DeArmonds out of the parts drawer. I know that these pickups have been in that drawer for at least 25 years. They are the white bobbin Guild pickups, but they do not have the impressed DeArmond Rowe on the back. Was this common for Guild. The DeArmonds on my 3 Gretschs...

letstalkguild.com

 

[rbrcbr]

They just have a center hole on each side which the height adjustment screws thread into. I have seen other Guild white top dearmond pickups with this center hole so I am curious if this is how the late 1960 ones were mounted that had the back pickup rings.

Ah cool, thanks for that. That is certainly a lot simpler than having a second ring to mount it to hahaha.

 

[lungimsam]

Sand the ragged ends of the paint on the neck uniform then spray the neck a clear satin coat for easy left hand playability movement without your thumb sticking when you change positions on the neck like gloss does.