Nice made-in-China guitar, this. Dreadnought with a Venetian Cutaway, solid Sitka Spruce top, Mahogany neck, back and sides; Ovangkol fretboard and bridge, body binding, Fishman preamp. What's not to like?
Now, the bad news. The Fishman preamp was dead as a dodo. The guitar was also covered in a year's worth of dust and grime. Guess it'd been hanging on a wall all this time. And don't get me started about the fretboard and frets, please. In any case, it was a guitar worth saving. Actually, the owner asked for a cheap and easy fix, and so that's the route I took.
The preamp remained dead despite my best efforts to revive it, so that was that. Then I disconnected the piezo pickup from the preamp and soldered it directly to the output jack, and there was sound! So now he'd just have to control output and tone from the amp he's plugged into. Yes, a cheap and easy fix indeed.
The guitar was cleaned up and polished with Gibson Guitar Polish, the fretboard degunked and reconditioned with lemon oil; and the frets given the Autosol treatment. After stringing her up with a fresh set of 10s, this Cort MR600F was good to go.
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