I was also quite amused at how the "routing" for the control assembly was done back in those golden days it seems Fender had not yet invested in routing templates for that job, and were hogging-out the cavities with the judicious use of spade bits.
He found a handwritten date of 6-4-46 on one of the bobbins, indicating this was one of the earliest Fender branded guitars to come out of the factory after the switch from K&F. He did a beautiful job rebuilding the pickup back to original specs, and managed to uncover a rather cool detail about this particular guitar. I'll leave the details of that effort to him, should he want to share his side of the tale.
Gravelin, I sent him the rather elegantly designed control/pickup/bridge assembly and he bravely took on the Herculean task of rebuilding a pickup that hasn't been produced since the late 1940s. In my guitar's case, the plastic spacer had deteriorated to the point the coil had collapsed on itself. The strings go through the middle of the coil using a plastic spacer and it has two giant magnets on either side of the coil. The Direct String Pickup was the design Leo Fender had been using in the K&F lap steel guitars, and is an odd duck to say the least. Gravelin who did an amazing job getting the unusual pickup rebuilt. When I took possession it had not been played in some time, and needed a good deal of finessing to get back into playing shape. I inherited this 1946 Fender Organ Button Model lap steel from my late aunt, who had inherited it from her uncle in the late 1960s. Josh Gravelin for assisting me in getting a family heirloom back in working order. I want to extend my appreciation, and thanks to Mr.
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