Vtg Yamaha SSC 500 electric guitar Jerry Garcia japan

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Vintage Yamaha SSC-500 electric guitar from Japan made in the late 70's early 80's. The good news is the guitar looks great and seems to be in original condition. The bad thing is there is something wrong with the neck or nut. Also it seems like the fretboard is pulling away a little. The strings are just kind of rattling on the frets. All the electronics work as they should including the toggle switches and the push pull knob. This would make a great project for someone but I 've had the guitar for 2 years and never got around to it. I read online that Jerry Garcia used to sport one of these. Sold as is. Shipping through UPS ground. Lower 48 only.Found this information onlineInstead of a Strat blade style pickup selector switch, there are three individual ON/OFF mini-toggle switches, each dedicated to a pickup. These mini-toggle switches allow for any combination of pickups to be selected, including the sometimes-handy "all off" selection. There's just one volume and one tone control, but with the tone control potentiometer doing double-duty as a push-pull switch that switches the pickups between parallel and series wiring. The single coil pickups are a departure from the typical Stratocaster pole piece design, being of a blade design. The SSC-500's single coil blade pickups have a sound that is basically a morph between the Strat read more

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