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Help with 345 at Rumbleseat

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geddy402

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I enjoyed been looking at a vintage ES guitar for sometime and this one popped up recently at Rumbleseat. They seem to be a reputable dealer and I visited their store when they were in Ithaca, seemed like nice guys. No direct link to the guitar but it’s in their main page. Link below.

http://rumbleseatmusic.com/electrics/

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a chance to play this one. Anything I should be concerned about thenguitar? Seems pretty straight based on their descritpion. Seem like a decent price? Not sure I can afford that price tag but I’d be willing to trade in a few guitars to get the price down closer to something I can deal with. I figure I only need one humbucking guitar...for now.

Thanks formthe help!
 
Steve Craw

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They are a fine store, with a very good reputation. Also, a sponsor here. It looks le the PAFs have been replaced with Pat. Sticker pickups. Beautiful guitar
 
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Knobs should probably be black, and the tuners are most likely not original. At any rate, nice-looking guitar.
 
DEVILBAT

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yep...that was one of mine...and those burst knobs, long guard, black vari tone ring, brown case,non wire abr 1 are original. Varitone is in the case.
Quite a nice guitar.
 
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No, I didn’t. I sent a message to them last night and never heard back. Saw it’s gone now. I guess you snooze you lose!
 
DEVILBAT

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GuitarMikey said:
Any word on what happened to the PAFs?
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Yea....I took them out about 4 years ago and put early patent number pickups that I liked better in there.



If it's sold I'm heading to Amsterdam for a month.

Funny thing is, Gilvis still has the guitar on his gbase page for years now.....I replaced those repro tuners with original old pat pending grovers from a 355 several years back.

xoxo to Gilvis. I love that guy.
 
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