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PAF pickups is pushing the story a step too far IMO. If the pickup maker mentioned has confidently identified them as real PAFs then the grab a bargain comment is er.......nonsense.
The bridge pick-up has a different shaped cover to the neck one (it's too rounded at the corners to be a real one from the period).
Do we know if the serial number on the headstock is the same as the one on the orange label (which is visible through the bass side f hole)?
It most probably is (at least broadly) as described.
The difficulty is knowing what it's worth.
Serial numbers are the same but the picture of the orange label isn't clear enough to see if its a repro.
http://www.es-335.net/shipping.html
No black ones are listed - though special order examples are known to exist (there's a picture of a '64 345 in black on the site).
I expect this is a refinish - albeit perhaps an old one.
It may well be a great player's guitar - but unlikely to sell for anything like 'collectors' money.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Or am I missing something? Doesn't look a Far Eastern fake albeit certainly not a collector's piece.
Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com
If I haven't bought my '62 already, I'd be all over it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
More observations than conclusions. However the structural integrity of the neck might have been improved by changing the headstock angle, by doing so you've just de-valued the guitar significantly. I suppose someone might do that to an early '60s 335. Just not anyone I know who owns one. Whatever the story with the headstock, The the neck binding is inexcusable. I too struggle to imagine a fire so intense and localised that it rendered the neck irrepairable yet left the body undamaged.
Elaborate? Yes. Possible, yes.
There is too much choice at 1200 quid to be nit picking over this possible (although unlikely) 60s body. Save your money and move on
I'm not knowledgeable enough about them to judge it so genuinely interested. If it was local I'd have been tempted to go and try it and see how it plays and looks close up.