blood_bought Yeah, that is not pretty. A couple warning signs on this one - not strung up, it's a dealer and the price is low for something with stainless frets, that alone is a 3-4k job. I suspect that the fret job isn't great, and I ain't volunteering to level and crown stainless frets - though, it's a job you'd only need to do once.
What get's me about most relics is that sanding smooths out the line between paint & wood, for me it's gotta look like it's been chipped away by microscopic piece by piece over the decades - it's really tough to get looking like it took years and not 15min with a orbital.
