For the guitarists on the forum

Looks great!

any video? I wanna hear that puppy

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don't fret

The P-90 is a Lollar and it sounds incredible - much more versatile than one would guess.

The original pickup wasn't in the ziplok bag and much of what was in that bag wasn't up to task or tastes. Now that the job is complete, the only things left original on the guitar are the body/neck/fingerboard (the magical part haha), eight of 10 inlay dots and the black one-ply truss rod and control cavity covers.

That's why I call it a "modern restoration." Those correct looking bean strip tuners sit atop modern 18:1 Gotoh machines. The tailpiece is aluminum and it has a discreet and quite accurate intonation ridge built into it. Without going into a lot of technical detail, let's just say it's no longer a Les Paul that was intended for juniors/students/beginners - it's in fact now just the opposite.

Were all Les Paul Juniors that sunburst color? Seems like every one I've seen is.

I have a mexi strat I'd like to fix up to throw into my rotation. Could you do the intonation, put new saddles and new pickups?

Gibson offered few colors in general up until the 60s when Fender started emulating vivid car colors on their guitars and Gibson and all the other manufacturers followed suit. For the mid-50s single cutaway Juniors, you saw that vintage sunburst mostly (which is why I picked it, plus it's absolutely gorgeous when done right), and also TV Yellow (a creamy and opaque yellowish white) and on rare occasions just a clear coat over the mahogany.

On the "do you" questions ... yes, I do, but this forum isn't the place to discuss. Google my user name and e-mail me through my shop's website.

great job!

Like Gibson, Gretsch guitars have a huge enthusiasts following and their most popular products today are reissues of their popular designs of the 50s and 60s. Period-correct repro parts are actually very easy to find, quite affordable and as high in quality if not higher thanks to modern and southeast Asian manufacturing. You won't have any problems replacing missing components.

Like the '55 Junior, I found this 1962 Gretsch Double Anniversary online in New Jersey about a year ago. It was a gutted husk in its original (and well weathered) factory "smoke green," nothing else. Everything you see other than the body, neck and fingerboard is either period correct repro or modern upgrade, like the creme-capped soapbar P-90s instead of reissue Filtertrons.











To give you an idea how desirable this "Double Annie" and classic-era Gretsches in general are among the Gretsch guys, this guitar and its resto project was sold by a photo gallery of the husk itself shortly after its arrival, before I had even started working on it or had a final $$$ estimate for the restoration!

FretShack that looks like phenomenal work. I've got a '59 LP Jr. that I'd like similar restoration work done to. The finish is in horrible condition. It originally was TV Yellow but a friend of mine decided he was going to refinish it in Cherry. That didn't go well and eventually he gave it to me. I'd like to have it restored back to TV Yellow. If you have any interest in that project lmk and I'll email you.

All that great work you have to have a shitty old Daphne Blue Strat laying around somewhere. Lol

I'll take a MIM.