sglp63
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I don't know. I bought it over the Internet at a Heritage Auction a couple of years ago; having bid the opening bid price (admittedly comparatively high by previous standards), I was expecting to be outbid but ended up winning the auction. When I received the guitar, I could see why there were no further bids, as someone - presumably not the pro who had done the refin, which was pretty good as one can also see from the pics with the pickguard removed - had added some fairly unsightly razor (or more likely carpet knife) checking. One can see it on the lower picture.
I took it to Mathias Schindehütte in Frankfurt, who tried to get rid of the checking by heating the finish. This worked at first, but the false checking kept reappearing after a while. Mathias solved the problem in the end by putting the body in the freezer and, with the additional relicing, it looks great, as the original checking, which is still there, has merged with the "real" checking.
