First of all, I can't figure out how to post pictures from Flickr, is this possible?
I'm a lucky bastard who found 2 pre-CBS Jazzmasters, though both have some issues which degraded their vintage-value (which is ok for me, and made them 'affordable').
First one is a '63 red one, no slab fretboard bu still with the black pickups.
I stayed in a music shop from the 70's until last year, and wasn't really used a lot as the shop owner is a bass player.
Unfortunately, it once was stolen by a bunch of junkies who got rid of the serial nr and most of the logo, in an attempt to make it untrackable.
Too bad for them, the shop owner knew some people that knew other people, and urged them to bring back his guitar, which they did.
By then, the vintage value was screwed up, but neck date and other things assured me it's a real '63.
It sounds great, especially with the mastery bridge installed.
My other one is an even stranger story.
it was bought in '64 by the previous (first) owner, who used it for 5 years in a band, and then put it away in a room for about 40 years.
Needless to say, it feels brand new, but has the sound of an old one.
It' s a little more resonant than the red one, which has more paint on it.
Unfortunately, this guy's wife likes painting wood, so the took off the standard sunburst finish in the 60's, and painted en oiled it to what it is now.
I will have someone put some new nitro and a new decal on it once, but this is what it looks like now...:
I have some rattling of the trem unit on the brown one, so if anyone knows about a trick get rid of it, feel free to help me out.
thanks!
