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Could the string-thru have been cut off when they chopped the bottom off? Okay...maybe I'm grasping at straws....but I can't envision another set-neck bass body that would cut down to that.

That my have been on the later versions, or on the 'Grabber' [bolt-on neck]...this is what I was considering: 'The Ripper humbucker, and it's associated circuitry was designed by Bill Lawrence, who was briefly working for Gibson in the early/mid 1970s. The first version of the Gibson Ripper bass humbucker was mounted directly into the body wood of the Ripper itself, via two screws down the central axis of the pickup, in line with the polepieces.'

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I'm leaning toward the old Gibson Ripper, the alder body, not maple, [the routing seems right]. I agree the headstock must have been grafted on at some point.

save me some time...where have you already looked?

doesn't mean I can't be polite....

Nicely done, interesting chord choices. I also cover this song [in D major], and understand the vocal challenges with trying to lean on the original melody [like the opening octave 'leap' Garland employed]. Rene, kaibigan, if you could, please, post future acoustic and vocal tracks in the VOM1T 2022 [soon to be superceded] thread in Acoustic Guitar forum.

After pondering ksl's initial question, I will go out on a limb and say that the volume pot controls the output volume of the effect and should not impact the overall volume output of the guitar itself. To clarify, the Wah-Full is a not treadle unit, which, like the Crybaby Q-zone, allows you to get the 'cocked wah' mid-range 'honk', and to adjust the parameters across a fairly wide spectrum. The 'Custom Shop' model has some nice additions, like a overall 'style' selector [wacked/Jimi/Shaft] and a pick-up 'compensator' to add more honk for humbuckers. The added controls allow for extreme tonal variations and 'Q' within the narrow band, and lets you 'voice' the output in many unique ways not available on a standard wah pedal.

ask Mike...while they're still around...https://www.fulltone.com/faq

the sound will change, over time as the wood 'breathes'.

that grain is definite unique...

Welcome to HC, kwh! please, have a look around...

Les Paul...😉 A Stratocaster will offer you more tonal variation simply based on the third pickup. If you mod a Tele with the Bill Lawrence wiring [as bp mentioned he did], you will get plenty of tonal variation as well. A guitar is a tool, and is not 'purpose built' to play a particular style*. The instrument is only that. It doesn't care about the style of music; that is the player's quandary. There are certain guitars that really have a distinctive [and often limiting] tone, like a Rickenbacker, but even that can be overcome by a good guitarist if the need arises.*** If I were starting out and looking for a guitar to play pop rock, rock, shoegaze, alt-rock, etc., my personal first choice would be a Stratocaster**. *Even something like a squareneck Dobro can be used on blues, country, swing, folk... ** mine was my main guitar for nearly 30 years. Modded, un-modded, re-modded...it worked for everything I played, from country to big band, blues to hard rock. ***To be fair, my Ric was the second one I let go of when I needed money...what does that say?

An update...my early 70s SG... I gave to a relative for allowing us to use his house while we were 'homeless'* and he was out of town working. Will I miss it? Not likely, and he did what I had wanted to do for twenty years: a refin of the bad refin that someone had done years earlier. I won't really miss it, although it played great, it was fugly...and the OHSC was pretty trashed [even when I first got it]. I gigged that axe maybe three times in 20 years, but it was one of my home 'go-to' guitars, kept out on a stand all the time, until we were between homes for several weeks* In 2021 I traded a bunch of pedals [many I had won in a giveaway and were, IMHO, un-usable for my styles] and an old Crate 20W tube amp that I had bought used and modded but rarely used [it had been my 'leave at the rehearsal space' back-up amp for a number of years] and a Fender tuner pedal...for a Martin 12 string and HSC. *[pre-xmas 2019 to mid-January 2020]. My homeless period. That 'limbo' time when you closed escrow on your house, but the offer on the next one is still being negotiated...exacerbated by the holidays. No mailing address. Worldly possessions in storage, no family xmas...

SX instruments are good beginner guitars, and great for modding. I would say they are easily on a par with the Squier Affinity line. I have never owned one [or anything from Rondo Music, the USA distributor of SX], but others here have. Another similar instrument line available here is Xaviera, from Guitar Fetish, which I would consider comparable. I realize that international musical instrument markets are very different from the US, home to Fender, Gibson, Guild, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, Martin, Dobro, D'angelico and so on...we are rather spoiled.

you snatched success from the [vise] jaws of catastrophe...nice save! get that neck on that puppy!😉

why not buy the matching sub?

Caveat lector... I can't imagine there are very many folks who would undertake that precarious and potentially fatal type of mod on a multi-thousand dollar Martin OM-21. I wouldn't. I would have traded it out for something I liked...

sad to see a 'local' builder with so many great builds go under. Mike still has some blem OCDs left if you get there soon enough today.

first...what's the budget? Hardwired 9V or battery or both? Footprint? True bypass or buffered bypass? I was faced with a similar situation several years ago, and I put a TC Spark in the chain and it was exactly what I needed at the time, and also convinced me to switch back to my previous OD pedal from the one I was using. Will it play nice with 'Sweet Baby'? I will say that the 'Timmy', used correctly, will probably convince you to pull 'Sweet Baby' off the board.

Davie, however is in a less 'temperate' climate than we are. It really comes down to how you 'keep' the room where the instrument stays most of the time. A house/condo/apt with central air/heat is the best situation, where you can control the environment pretty accurately... but humidity can be a concern as well, but fairly easily remedied.

The issue with replacement pickups is you will never know which one will sound best until you have tried them all. In your guitar. Because it really is not an objective decision. I have found that the audio codex on youtube makes using their videos useless for this type of research.

My personal preference is unless I'm using the instrument all the time, it remains cased [acoustic, electric, solid, semi or hollow*]. Semi-hollow guitars like 335s are less susceptible to variations in humidity and temperature than acoustics or full hollowbody guitars [ES130/Casino, 330, L5, etc...] *because I live in earthquake country...hanging guitars on the wall just seems like a real bad idea.

To be clear, better pics needed, but it looked 'reasonably' authentic. Kluson Deluxe tuners did appear on Martins at varying times [when they went '14 fret'], and the absence of a soundhole label is not necessarily wrong either. So yes, it could actually be a Martin and the seller's ignorance is their loss. The thing with Martin's is they have made so many guitars for so long, and have been copied/faked so often, that without being able to see the construction/key details [neck joint, bracing, wood, frets] and without being able to play it, I would pass on that.