00:00This is a 69 older body, I believe, 68-69, and the modifications kind of go from there, really, because,
00:09as you can see, there's this bit of forearm wear that reveals that it was originally a sunburst, and so
00:15the black finish, which is so iconic, isn't the original.
00:19The scratch plate that kind of makes that look work with the white pickup covers came in 74, and it's
00:26actually a really thick single-ply example, and it kind of goes on and on from there.
00:33I mean, what I find fascinating about it is, you know, David Gilmour is known for his tone, and when
00:38we talk about, like, high-end luthiery, we talk about, you know, instruments that really sing, we think about them
00:45as being lovingly crafted and sort of unsullied,
00:48but this thing has had so many quite sort of rough modifications made in the field, as it were, on
00:54it.
00:55So I think you can see that where there was a rack for a Kaler trem, of all things, right
00:59here, that's reverted back to the sort of bent steel saddle fender unit with, of course, the short vibrato arm
01:06there.
01:07And there's a sort of raft of things which are harder to spot, like, for example, the three-way selector
01:13that would have been original,
01:14so the guitar got changed in 85, so the far more practical five-way.
01:19It's really interesting and entirely predictable for such a well-played guitar, but it's really interesting to see all the
01:25playwear here.
01:25It's got about 100 dings and, you know, in the best possible sense.
01:31And even the neck, which, you know, sometimes stays original on Fenders, has been changed quite a lot, hasn't it?
01:38I think this is its seventh neck.
01:39Was my guy on that dánded up you oot in the rightウónus?
01:39It's thier quil deÄźup, but nobody's made.
01:39So we didn't even make.
01:40Let's take...
01:40Hola.
01:40Okay, so good data from past,.
01:41got a little bit... ...
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