Talk about a guitar that has gotten more popular since it went out of production. Mine is a 1968 that I got in the mid 1970's from a pawn shop for $90. It was banged up and missing the bridge, but otherwise in decent shape. I used a floating Gibson TOM on it until I found a used original bridge for $30 in an Angela's Instruments catalog. It's still all original but for an additional string tree that someone added and a hard trapeze tailpiece that I put on it when I was in high school. I still have the original tremolo tailpiece, but have not used it since the '70s because it won't stay in tune if you do.
It still sounds great, and the older I get the more I love how light it is. The single coils are a little noisy, but that is "stock" too.
Styled after the original these would really be something different in the PB lineup. The originals were bolt-on neck, thinline hollow bodies designed by Roger Rossmeissl and equiped with DeArmond single coils, that are sort of like P-90s but not as hot. The new style is a bit more like an ES 335 or a Gretsch. They look cool, but I would not trade mine in for one.
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Originally Posted by fender3x
