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Author Message   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 7:02 am:    Hi all Just laid my hands on a beautiful ES 335 copy, but unfortunately it's missing the 6-way rotary switch (in stead of it there is a &%$#&*??++ coil tap switch mounted). I want to restore it to its originals. I already found a replacement 6-way rotary switch, but it seems that the goldish plastic surround plate with the 6 position scale is nowhere to be found. Maybe anybody who has such a thingy in his old spare parts drawer? Please contact me! Kind greetz, Harry   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 11:38 am:    This is the surround plate I ment Harry   Fox Username: Fox Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 9:01 pm:    Harry, wait until I check my "vault".. I might have still one left, but quite sure I cannot be..   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:14 am:    Fox! I would be so happy..... Harry   Fox Username: Fox Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 9:20 am:    Harry, I have got one..Gold-top plastic with 6 position numbers, quite NOS but not in a bag..   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 05-2006 Posted on Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 7:15 pm:    Have you already got a clue about the type name of this guitar, Harry? All I could find was a 1978 stereo SA400CH with a Quik Change tailpiece. But yours has a vibrato unit, a chrome tune-o-matic bridge and the "Quaker hat" potmeter knobs. So would you be so kind to tell us what we're looking at: is it an older Ibanez or isn't it an Ibanez at all, but for example an Aria TA__? Do we get to see the whole picture when it's ready? Greetz, Ginger   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Friday, October 06, 2006 - 1:51 am:    Hi guys! Fox: JUHUUU!!!!!!!!!! Can I buy it from you? I have sent you an email in order to settle a possible deal. Ginger: it is the model number 2457. Here is a picture of it (not mine). My guitar has the serial number E 776132 and unfortunately the gold parts are pretty corroded. Since there is almost no fret wear I think that it has been in a very moist place or case. Definitely no re-fret job. But anyway: I got it relatively cheap and you don't see these models very often. I bought it in Veenendaal last Saturday. I will post some pictures after I finished the restoration. Kind greetz, Harry   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 05-2006 Posted on Friday, October 06, 2006 - 5:27 pm:    OK Harry, I found it. 1190 Deutsch Marks in 1977. I didn't go to Veenendaal. Last time I went there, I got a ticket for speeding in Nijmegen, where I picked up a Kasuga Tele Custom '72 NT with flame maple neck, I bought in Groesbeek at the small guitar event. Eigenhuizen did a lousy job on the pickups. I had to replace them both. (single coil with bolts and NUTS and too wide holes drilled in the plastic bottom plate! And the humbucker was >500kOhm, so no match for a normal tele single coil, for which I kept the original upside-down bridge with the extra drill holes.) I was very fond of the intimate atmosphere in the Lampegiet theatre, but I don't like huge halls, in which there's no quite place where you can try acoustic instruments, like we did upstairs in the Lampegiet. Anyway, I'm looking forward to see the result. Ginger   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 5:33 pm:    Fox Did you get my email? Harry   Fox Username: Fox Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 7:18 pm:    Harry, just got back from studio.. I have not read my mails since yesterday.. Lets work this way, I will send you the plate, and then we will figure something.. OK?   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 7:41 am:    Fox! That would be great! (unless the plate's gonna cost me a fortune afterwards...). Maybe you're looking for particular parts too? I might take a look in my "vault" for ya! How do we manage from here? You don't have my adress, do you? Shall I send it off-line to your mailbox? Thanks again: you're being too kind! Harry   Harry Username: Harry Registered: 03-2001 Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 - 11:49 am:    Fox I've sent you a mail with my adress. Did you get it? Kind greetz, Harry

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