Pawnshop Dan always brings me the most interesting guitars: old brands nobody has heard of, beat up, no name classical guitars with incredible old wood and fretboards, and this cool Kay guitar that he brought in last week. Something about this guitar I really liked. Yea, the neck was blocky and the pickup output a bit weak, but it just had that “something” from another era, and I could hear it when I played this guitar. This guitar was cool. It needed to have some grounding done on it to get the electronics to work properly, and thankfully there was this little back way into the guitar, something that EVERY hollowbody electric should have to make those repairs just a little easier. I’d never seen that before, but it made the job more managable and with less chance to mess something else up, which is always a possibility when pulling complete electronics out of hollowbody/semi-hollowbody guitars.
Turns out on the original design of this guitar the pickup switch and bridge/strings were never grounded, so when the volume was turned down there was this horrible buzzing sound. We got that fixed up, put on a new set up strings, set the intonation and Pawnshop Dan was on his way.
