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It is strange. I figured any guitar with two humbucker pickups should have 3 pickup settings. I'll take it over to the shop within the week and see what they can do. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

So the selector on my newly aquired Les Paul copy is a little gummy and I've unscrewed the back to see if I can't fix things a bit. Something I noticed is that there seems to be only two settings: Bridge pickup and neck pickup. Unlike most Les Pauls, which have 3 settings (Bridge/Bridge-Neck/Neck ...

Found a very similar bridge saddle at a local shop and as far as I can tell there's no problem with the action or anything. With a fresh set of D'Addario blues/jazz strings the guitar sounds GREAT and looks awesome too. Somewhere over the decades it lost its pickguard but right now I'm just working ...

Thanks. After 15 years of getting my guitars professionally set up, I'm finally starting to ask questions about these things in order to become a more informed guitarist. I appreciate all the help. I'm on my way out the door now, heading for the local shops. I'll keep the forum posted as to whether ...

Gotcha. I've removed the bridge and I'll take it with me on my circuit of nearby music shops. If the guitar is without strings for too long could it warp the neck or anything? I'll hopefully be strumming away on a fully functional El Degas very soon.
Thank you for the input, Charles!
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Thanks very much for your input, Charles. I'll search around for what you've recommended. I notice that a lot of bridges for similar guitars don't often use the small springs that I'm seeing behind the screws on my El Degas. Is that spring absolutely necessary or if I found the saddle and screw ...

Hello! I just picked up an old El Degas Les Paul from a friend of mine. It's a gorgeous guitar and I'm slowly becoming a big fan of mid-priced workhorse guitars like those made by Grenada, Aria and El Degas in Japan in the 70's and 80's. It's in great shape considering it was stashed in a dusty ...