Recent content by ivansc

Dont see too many of those rosewood boards around. My st80 is from the same year but has worked hard since the day I bought it brand new in 1980. Love that guitar!

Your luthier will be able to check what is on it and replace with the correct wire. I recently had the bottom 12 frets done on my 1980 st80 by a local guy and it worked out really well. And re those pickups, have the refret done (if it needs it) before you switch pickups. The amount of fret...

****! I knew I should have bought that Breezy deluxe when I had the chance!! Might see if the owner is interested in selling it on.... :D

Made in Ireland by the look of things.... They may have bought up the last of the Brandoni stuff :lol:

Well SOMEbody bit on the er ferret... I`ll get my coat....

And not a single white springy in sight!

Got mixed up with a SG alike somehow - sorry about that! Anyway I looked all over the classifieds and didnt see a HP for sale - anyone have one they wish to move on? O.K. I give up! Apparently I have angered the Gods of the Registry! (grin) Really not my day. I just discovered at 10pm...

Superb work! And just for fun, a nice story. Back in the early sixties I got up and jammed with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes at a gig, just after Ringo left them to join the Beatles. I borrowed their guitar player`s strat. Yours is an absolute dead ringer for his apart from the F word on the...

Always a bit of a *gulp* moment working on an old, pretty guitar, eh? I put off having the first 12 frets replaced on my ST80 for a very very long time. It sat in its case un-played for a COUPLE OF YEARS(!). Even put it up for sale on here and then got convinced by a pal in Nigeria of all...

Just got back to this thread. Mine does indeed have a single color scratch plate and A on the underside of it. No fretboard number stamp & I forgot to look at the truss rod adjuster when I was gigging it last night! d`Oh....

Did the early Springys (pre 1980) have WBW scratchplates? My `80 has a plain white plate. Either way, the early 80`s are a delight. Love mine.

Only just noticed this thread. I own a 1980 springy with a v neck rosewood board. Bought it new in 1980, pick of the litter out of six we got in the shop where I worked at the time. All six were white nitro finish, vee neck rosewood board springys. ST80s. ?80 inc HSC at the time! So don`t give...

1940`s 00021 - belongs to a friend in Nashville. Best Martin I ever played and it too had a really triangular Vee neck. I bought MY 000 on the strength of that one guitar. When I bought my 1980 ST80 in the shop where I worked, we got 6 ST80s and 2 Hard Punchers in on the same day, our first...

Hi, mate - mine is somewhere around the second from the left or the last one on the right. Hopefully that will help. FWIW Fender didn`t make a vee neck strat with a rosewood board in that crucial period, which is why I ended up buying my ST80. And I immediately lost interest in Fenders...

Not too many guitars made in 1944 I could afford to buy.... :cry: