I picked this up as from a friend of a friend for £40, it came in the usual condition, rusty strings (although obviously not all six!), a battered black Les Paul shaped guitar with a rusted Tune’O’Matic style bridge, chewed adjustment screws, and tuners that barely held onto the the headstock, let alone tune.
Of course at the time it worked fine for what I needed but as I progressed from simple power chords I started to find it a bit lacking. The tone was always a bit dark, so the pickups were first to go, there a lot of talk about Hondo’s having Dimarzio’s, no such luck here, these were a single coil in a humbucker shell (apparently some people find these valuable and collectable - I binned them as that was all they deserved)!!! I’d always liked the look of Zebra’s so in went a set of Wilkinsons which in retrospect are a touch too hot. The rusted Tune’O’Matic was ejected for a roller bridge which also brightened up the sound.
It stayed like this for a few years before I desired something a little more flexible, so in went an Axetec ‘Mr Page’ kit (still available here http://www.axetec.co.uk/guitar_parts_uk_028.htm) to give coil taps, phase and parallel/series switching. Thats when it really started to notice the fret-wear and had to move on to the first Partscaster.
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