I bought my Ranger XII in Stockholm 1973, and it cost me ca. 250SEK. I resently opened the "softbox" (after 20years) and got a chock! The scratchplate was gone. Probebly it had loosend when I was young, and I didn´t care than. SHAME on me !
I have, a few day´s ago, ordered a new plate from Alan Exley, and I´m wery curius too see how it´s gona fit. The original plate was darkbrown, I think, but this new one is black.
I have never change´d the string´s, it´s original.
Now listen folks... after at least 20 year´s in the canvas, I DIDN´T HAVE TO TUNE IT ! I slam´d a cord, and it sounded fantastic.
Live well,EKO-lovers