I've totally forgotten about posting about this guitar on this forum.. I've had it for a week or two now
These pictures are from the day I got it, basically. I started tearing it down and giving it a rough cleanup, i.e. the "racing" treatment.
Cleaned the fretboard and giving it some much needed oil, polished the frets, I've also roughly handpolished the body and back of the neck to get the worst bits of grime. There's still work to be done with it though, but it's playable to a certain degree now at least.
The images then, pretty much self explanatory, but the third image shows some "evidence" of this being a japanese-made guitar. It also shows the pickups, which unfortunately aren't the original ones since the RoHS-stickers indicate that they were produced sometime after 2000.
The fifth image shows what it looks like under the bridge pickup. I've never owned or looked "inside" a 335 before, so not sure if it's supposed to look like that...
As for playability, it's nice and got a good sound. All in all a decent 335 guitar in my opinion. I do think it might be a bit better with some new pickups though, but the ones that are in there are by no means bad. (I oh so need to improve how to talk about how guitars play
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