In the back of my brain, if it is Saturday night around 7:30, then its Lawrence Welk time. That is fun.
I had a 62 Bass VI, pretty early variant like the black 3 switch strat pup one in the pic, but sunburst. I liked it a lot, but it got to be extra and I needed some money. I wish I still had it in a weird way. At any rate, my way of playing it was strung up with black tapewound strings. Kind of hard to do these days.