I am looking for an HII right now. Thank you for all the tips with restoring it! I am not as big fan of the white control plate so I would have left it black or gotten a new scratch plate that accommodated the switches. I have also seen some that use white switches and they would look better against the black background.
just got a 1965 black and white Hagstrom 1, looks just like that, only the pickups are not rounded on the edges, but straight-edge rectangles. QUESTION: When I was rubbing the rust off the pole pieces pressing hard (heavily rusted), I discovered the poles are not one solid piece. The top part you see is a little steel cap that is glued onto the actual pole underneath. Apparently the rubbing alcohol I used to free the rust dissolved the glue. This happened on two pole pieces. I cleaned the old glue off, and put a tiny pinch of super glue (with pressure overnight) to secure the two caps. Have you ever seen pickups made this way, with metal caps fixed on top of each pole? They were magnetized. If you put them upside down, they would repulse, but the correct way, and it they fit right back in place. They work fine, but I'm curious nevertheless if this strange construction is unique to Hagstrom, or are other pickups made like this...
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I am looking for an HII right now. Thank you for all the tips with restoring it! I am not as big fan of the white control plate so I would have left it black or gotten a new scratch plate that accommodated the switches. I have also seen some that use white switches and they would look better against the black background.
just got a 1965 black and white Hagstrom 1, looks just like that, only the pickups are not rounded on the edges, but straight-edge rectangles. QUESTION: When I was rubbing the rust off the pole pieces pressing hard (heavily rusted), I discovered the poles are not one solid piece.
The top part you see is a little steel cap that is glued onto the actual pole underneath. Apparently the rubbing alcohol I used to free the rust dissolved the glue. This happened on two pole pieces. I cleaned the old glue off, and put a tiny pinch of super glue (with pressure overnight) to secure the two caps.
Have you ever seen pickups made this way, with metal caps fixed on top of each pole? They were magnetized. If you put them upside down, they would repulse, but the correct way, and it they fit right back in place.
They work fine, but I'm curious nevertheless if this strange construction is unique to Hagstrom, or are other pickups made like this...
short answer... dont know!
Kurt cobain played and smashed the same guitar in 1989.