Series 10 guitars

They are generally mid 80s import knockoffs (they're either MIJ or MIK, can't remember) of popular bolt-ons of the era. Most are plywood bodies. Lackluster electronics and hardware. But with a good set-up they will do the job good enough. They were entry level prices minty clean new and I'd suspect showroom new condition piece isn't worth more than $200 today on the new market, and it better have a nice case at that price.

Here's a Series 10 body I mated to a VERY import neck (made in India) to create a RAWK! beater a client could dedicate to a de-tuning he rarely used. This guitar was fished out of a debris pile in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Someone had rattlecanned the body flat black over its original bubblegum pink (Jackson Dinky clone) before it sat submerged in flood water for who knows how long. My buddy who "rescued" it had it in a corner of his garage from 2005 until a couple months ago. I gutted the trashed electronics and shoved a Gibson PAF from my salvage bins in there with one volume knob ala EVH.

The finish is bounce "burns" from my bench grinder station. Before I assembled it, I took the nekkid body and rubbed it and jabbed it directly into the abrasive disc and belt while they were spinning in high speed grind mode.

Sure, any project guitar is worth $60 particularly if you consider absolute, absolute worst case scenario is a learning/teaching tool. If you can make it functional, you will have done well.

Late 80's I was in college at Arkansas State in NE Ark. An old man I only knew as Monk had a little music store. I think all he sold were Series 10 & Alvarez factory seconds. He'd drive up to St. Louis and get a pickup bed full of them, bring them back & fix them up. Sometimes "fix them up" meant he took a broken head stock, filed it down and painted the repair with black spray paint. I loved that store. They were crap guitars. I actually still have a Westone Pantera that came from there... broken headstock and all