I've managed to get one of these guitars back into shape..and it plays and sounds pretty cool. All the electrics were fine, apart from the jack socket which I replaced with a new Switchcraft. It needed a new button on one tuner, new control knobs, and I fabricated a trem arm...I put new strings on..and it's great.
A much maligned guitar in their time..probably because most people hadn't got a clue how to set up a guitar, so they put up with lousy action, and of course, it was much cooler to have a "Columbus" black Les Paul copy that actually looked like a real "name" guitar...and for the youth of the time, a tele -style guitar wasn't cool anyway.
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