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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on March 1, 2016 at 10:37pm

You could always strip it down for parts for a nice CBG. I mean, do you really want to own an old global guitar anyway? That's a lot of parts for small change and fixing it is throwing money at it. Suddenly your $15 find has really cost you $30-40. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 1, 2016 at 11:12pm

But his 15 dollar find guitar can be worth hundreds if it's restored, for the right buyer that is. Some of these 60's/70's/80's MIJ guitars were crap and some were great and worth big dollars these days. Hot items right now.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on March 2, 2016 at 1:38pm

Perhaps.. But all said and done.. If it was mine, I would just strip it down for parts.. The neck looks good, pickups, tuning heads etc. All worth more than $15. 

Throw money at it or take the good stuff and run 

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on March 2, 2016 at 1:58pm

I guess you would, and I wouldn't.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on March 2, 2016 at 12:34am

Paul, the good thing about this guitar is that only thing wrong with it is the bridge it came with.  When I replace that the intonation will be perfect. It plays and feels really good. I'll try to find a Tun-O-Matic bridge ( Les Paul style ) that will have the right string spacing. If not I will float a Fender hard tail.  End up spending more for the bridge than I did the guitar. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 2, 2016 at 8:08am

The large single coil pickups that came out of mine are going into a Poplar body DC Tele build that I'm going to start soon. Plastic covers were broke, but I found out the string spacing was the same as P90's. So I got some dog ear P90 covers that fit.Has mini hb's now.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 2, 2016 at 10:32pm

A couple of pics of the old pickups with the plastic dog ear P90 covers.Side view pic is too blurry. Crappy camera.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 3, 2016 at 8:32am

These old Japanese guitars had large single coil pickups that could do P90 tones as well as Tele tones. Probably why a lot of Americans liked them.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Carr on March 3, 2016 at 3:23pm

I've got a similar, single pickup, Global. It was part of a lot of "restaurant fixtures" that were purchased at a storage unit auction. It had been stuck on the wall of a seaside bar for years. The electronics and tuners were ruined from salt air exposure. I replaced the tuners, pots and wiring. I tried to get the original pickup working again but it was too weak to be useful. I replaced it with a P90 inside the original chrome casing. I had to shave down the bobbin to get this to work.

The bridge works OK for me since I mainly play open G slide on it so I haven't considered replacing it. The intonation isn't too far off on mine so maybe I'm lucky.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 3, 2016 at 3:38pm

thats a yum  yum !  ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 3, 2016 at 9:59pm

Nice, you saved it. Glad you used some ingenuity to get that P90 in there. Intonation doesn't matter with a slide does it?

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Permalink Reply by Frank Carr on March 4, 2016 at 1:47am

The string height is rather high on these guitars so the intonation is better at the 12th fret with a slide than when you push down to fret notes. While it isn't Sonny Landreth perfect it does fine for raunchy blues and blues-rock in the style of Johnny Winters, Hound Dog Taylor, Jack White and George Thorogood.

There are exact replacement bridges available on eBay (search for Harmony bridges in the guitar parts section) that promise better intonation but I don't think you'll see that much improvement from them if the intonation is really off or if you're really picky about it.

The GFS bridges are inexpensive and good. I've used them on some fix-up guitars. However, the pole spacing on them is too wide for this guitar. You would have to drill new bridge post holes and replace the tailpiece as well.

My thinking is that if it's not badly broke, don't fix it.

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