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    1964-ish Silvertone 1457 guitar

    Here's a pic of my 1964-ish (the pots are dater the 36th week of 1964) Silvertone 1457! It took me a few days to post this because I was busy making it fully functional.
    Though it has quite a bit of patina, it all worked well except the neck pickup. I disassembled that today, peeled back the tape and found that one of the leads was no longer connected to the coil. This was a fairly daunting task, but with some patience and 7x magnification visor, I was successful.
    Yes, the strings are biased way to the bass side of the neck. It won't move far enough to correct it and playability is not affected, so it's staying that way.


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    Re: 1964-ish Silvertone 1457 guitar

    What are the tones like on that guitar. I've never heard one.

    It looks great.
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    Re: 1964-ish Silvertone 1457 guitar

    Quote Originally Posted by ch willie View Post
    What are the tones like on that guitar. I've never heard one.

    It looks great.
    Sweet, jangly and chimey. The pickups are wires in series so the middle position is louder then each pickup alone. I haven't had time to play with the pickup heights yet, but so far, it's way better that the reissues that I've played and owned.

    The guitar sounds great unplugged on the couch while watching TV too!

    BTW, the tuners work backwards!!!

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    Re: 1964-ish Silvertone 1457 guitar

    It's certainly got the mojo.
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    Re: 1964-ish Silvertone 1457 guitar

    I've never had the chance to play a functional one of those, nearly all that I've seen were missing parts, almost always missing at least one string, knobs that were frozen still, etc. Don't believe I've ever seen/heard one in the flesh either.
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