1950's antoria hollowbody Charity Shop score

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1950's antoria hollowbody Charity Shop score

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Charity shop score 20 bucks has to be 1950's antoria hollowbody guitar is going to make a great Grestch like Rockabilly project.
Im thinking flat top mount pickups and I could mount the electrics in a pickguard to keep the alterations to a minimum.
Added the GFS Trem that was lying around here 3 screws to the rear and no top fixing need.
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That's so cool!
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Truss rod!!!!

Cutaway!!!


Score!!!!


I have a solid top/sides Antoria which to this day blows my mind. Congrats
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SO nice! Congratulations. :)
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Wow, what a score. It looks fantastic, I'm jealous!

I had a friend from jazz school who had one. Lovely guitar.

My dad actually has one that he got from his sister when he was a kid. I'd love to try restore it, but I'm pretty sure it's beyond that.

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That looks super cool!
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Actually.

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I've had no experience with them, but would one of those peizo bridges be cool on this guitar?
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Single coil wrote:Actually.

Want to double your money?
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I have one of the schatten piezos on my 50s hofner, it's not that great a tone IMO and having the little cable running from the bridge to the f hole is maow. I'd leave it acoustic or go for a floating humbucker

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What a find!
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Antoria? Been there got the T-shirt:
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awesome man. love the check binding. trem looks great. nice job.
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Rog wrote:Antoria? Been there got the T-shirt:
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Thats cool man.

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Looking at something like these.
---Resistance:
Neck: 6.8K ohm
Bridge: 9.2 K ohm
---Magnet - Alnico 5

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Hopefully look kinda like this.
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