A very nice german lady, who had a rough life, better said a neglected life, proberly been laying around on a attick after the frets wore down too much.
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He has serious fretwear on th top of the neck but still is good playable, the finish has aged beautiful, nicely cracked which gives him loads of mojo.
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My suspection is it’s a Astro, mainly because all the hardware except the tuners, is the same as on the astro i already own for a few years (these pu’s were also on the astro when i got him but they were broken so i replaced them for humbuckers)
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And to my amazement all the potmeters work without any noise very unusual on a guitar that has been treated bad like this, the guitar was extremely dirty when i bought it, a real dirtbag.
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Coming home i cleaned it polished it and restrung it, that’s when i discovered that someone has been messing with the neck angle, there was a thick piece of plastic in the neckjoint, what offaset the neck in a way it looked like a bow and arrow.
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I used a smal piece of it in the right spot to get the angle right again and now it’s a good player again.
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The neck pu sounds nice and jazzy and the bridge pu has a unexpected bite and edge, these pu’s were made by schaller if i’m not mistaken.
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Again a good fleamarket find which made my day.
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If anybody can identify this guitar, please, tell me i’m curious to know it’s real origin.
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