1959 GIBSON LES PAUL BURST

ASSEMBLY 2

75 Switchcraft 3 way switch

76, 77 back plates same material for both. Red darker under plates.

78 Cavity routed at angle biting into maple. Allows the knobs to line up straight when viewed from top. Bit scars present. Solder joints appear unmolested and all parts original. The date codes are on the side of pot cans. Reading date code cleanly on all pots is impossible without removing harness. Better to wrangle in dentist mirror to view a code or two than risk damage.  Black tubing protects ground wire from shorting onto any hot connection. Coated cloth tubing protects cap leads from same.

79 Great example of what burst pots look like. One kind, one look for the entire burst family.

80 Sprague cap with protective tubing.

81 Chew mark. All bursts have two. Many debates rage as to how they got there. Fortunately for me I am just a few hours from Kalamazoo and did the internet unthinkable - asked real people who were there. The debates may rage on, strangley, but chew marks are another shared burst trait.

82 Switchcraft jack. Old ones are quite easy to recognize by brown wafer construction.

83 Wire channel routed into mahogany before maple top glued on. See glue squeeze out. Top is glued with formaldehyde resin. Angled route in maple leaves angled ridge.