Dean's locale:

Tin Can Bay, Queensland, Australia

Sunday, October 26, 2008

~1960 Harmony Stratotone H47

I've been working on this since I bought it in July, 2008. Here's the before shot:



Here's the work I did:
- pickup rewind by Brett Brubaker, to 12.4k. This one has a ceramic magnet with a FULL bobbin.
- added vintage knobs
- replaced tail piece
- wiring harness repair
- raised nut to kill some buzz from the fret board
- new strap pin (modern one that fitted)
- general stuff like, pot cleaning, fret dressing, fretboard oiling, spit and polish
- tuners lubricated
- new strings 10-46's

Quite a transformation, I'm sure you'll agree:



2 comments:

joe.daquila@gmail.com said...

Wow, beautiful! I have one, was my fathers. Its in very rough shape, missing original pickup, 3way switch, tail piece and bridge.
I am slowly restoring it.
I hope mine will turn out as nice.
Next step is to find the 3way switch and figure out how to wire.
Great work!

joe.daquila said...

Wow, beautiful! I have one, was my fathers. Its in very rough shape, missing original pickup, 3way switch, tail piece and bridge.
I am slowly restoring it.
I hope mine will turn out as nice.
Next step is to find the 3way switch and figure out how to wire.
Great work!