Vintage Electric Guitar Restoration - 1976 Old Semi-acoustic Guitar Repair

This is a restoration and repair video of a hollow-body (semi-acoustic) electric guitar that was made in Ukraine in 1976 (then it was a part of the USSR). Briefly about the restoration work I did on this guitar: Refinishing / Painting Tuning pegs replacement Electronics repair Headstock repair Making a pickguard Frets replacement Deep cleaning and moisturizing of the neck Bridge replacement Pickguard cutting Now in detail. I bought this Lviv guitar for $30. It was in really terrible condition. When I saw this dirty and rusty guitar for the first time, I immediately understood that it needed a complete refinish. As I understood, someone in the nineties modified it badly (as a clue I found an old bus ticket of already independent Ukraine inside). To get to the electronics, the previous “luthier“ simply cut off a piece of the guitar and then covered the hole with a piece of plastic. The frets on the neck were almost flat so I had to replace them. The fingerboard on th