Leaderboard

I am in Hudson New Hampshire near the Mass boarder

I'm guessing that in the past, they would have done pretty much anything that Jay asked them to do. I think the standard pickguards were maple. Mars_Hall had this photo from 2009. It was labeled "Maple Pickguards".

I was wondering about that: a better technique would have been bridging the connections with new wire IMO But at least that wasn't your work! Lol

There are common known issues on these amps with certain excessive heat generating components being mounted too closely to the main board (especially the two grid leak resistors; and this board did look toasty in that area); but for the most part here, I believe the issue was having the soldering iron too hot and/or holding too long in one spot, while replacing the caps and reflowing solder joints. Ultimately damaging the traces and solder pads, and then chasing their tales trying to repair them.