Spectrum LX Cleanup & Repair

Icon Spectrum LX by Forum member Corsair on June 08, 2010

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This guitar came with its original whammy bar, string lock shims, and bolts, in a non-stripped base.

All in all this was in good condition save for the general dust. But one string claw arm had broken off and I’m going to get a gunsmith or model engineer to make a couple for me, I am going to get some steel and cut, drill and file one up.

The FT bridge is a real orphan. No off-the-shelf parts will fit any part of this bridge.



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Bottom string lock shims in place. And underneath were paper packing pieces!! Gotta be factory!!

The offending broken string claw. However, it is a fairly clever design allowing fast loading of new strings.

Cleanup.



A spot of black paint on the screw heads will be required.

I really don’t think this has been to bits before(!) and check this out; the h/b pickup surrounds are reversed… factory???