...and now for something not completely different...
I recently cleaned and set up a friend of mine's formerly Polaris White '65 SG Jr. He bought it in the early 70s from Lipham's Music for $75 with case after another friend of mine traded it in after stripping the body. On a new EB-1 reissue IIRC. Here it is next to my '65 EB0.
![](https://i.imgur.com/ODGUYcx.jpg)
Hadn't really been played since then, frets almost perfect. What really amazed me was that the neck was bound with the binding filed to cover each individual fret end, just like you'd see on the most expensive Gibson. Amazing for what was basically a student guitar, although it originally had a vibrola.
Anyway, I played it for a while and it was FUN! So this resulted:
Tele swamp ash $100 body from a Reverb shop in NH I shot with toner mixed from white nitro/ sanding sealer mix.
![](https://i.imgur.com/EUn6Tvo.jpg)
Scuff sanded it with 400 the next day and shot six ounces of nitro clear on it. Day after that I hit it with some #0000 stell wool and attached my late brother's '57 Esquire "V" neck to it that hadn't been played since 1980. Also a Duncan Jerry Donahue pickup on Steve Soar's recommendation and a modded three way switch:
![](https://i.imgur.com/tI6dZ5V.jpg)
Gives a pretty good approximation of a two pup guitar
![](https://i.imgur.com/Gfombwn.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/BaZKlly.jpg)
New calluses!