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+1 on Keiyo

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Center seam, flame mapple cap: should be an LS60

The rings are not the originals which were broken, but these new ones are the same exact color.

I think that the bobbins colors are the original colors, they are uniform all around.

I had to polish them a little as they were dirty: no color change

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I've just received a 1980 EG500

The pickups are supposed to be U1000 and have ceramic magnets (my super 70 ones are all alnico). They look stock, solderings untouched
Maxon code 200311

But the weird is the zebra: white an cream. I've never seen these bobbin colors mixed before.

I've found that Mexican strats whammy bars fits japanese one, in any case they fit mine The bar diameter is not important, but the thread diameter is: it should be around 4.7 mm I've found some on ebay at 2€, but we must be very careful, the chinese ads rarely specify the thread diameter, as does th...

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I have a 2001 LS 60 GT as well!

Maybe chinese (2 screws TRC and 4mm bridge posts ???), but very nice

I,ve purchased my 77 se-600 sparkle sounds on ebay for aprox $300 shipping included from Japan to France, a couple of monthes ago Mint condition Natural color Original Greco hard case included The body and pickguard had been professionaly modified for a humbucker on the bridge position 2 Excel picku...

Looks like a LS50 to me

LPjunior wrote:They were doing the 380's and 480 bolt ons in that period so the 500's weren' the bootom of their range at the time

May be the 380 was bolt on, but not the 450 (plain) and 480 (flamed) which were set neck semi hollow top, as is my '80 EG480

Just use Alpha pots, so does Tokai. Forget CTS

Paladin2019 wrote:Pickups can be changed easily enough but you're going to have a hard time if you didn't get on with the fat neck because as far as I'm aware *all* of the MIJ love rocks have always had a fat 50s style neck profile.

I own a 90's LS 55 which have a slim 60 type neck

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My 77 SE 600 with Excel pu on neck and middle are 5.6 and 5.9 kohm