Galanti Grand Prix IV 1967 Cherry Red -- rebuilt amd refinished

This Galanti began as a two pickup version in red, beat and peeling, as seen in the second and third photos.  I had restored a previous Grand Prix IV and had a set of the pickups and switches, plus a pickguard -- so I stripped the red one, repainted it, and reassembled with the four pickup set up.  The neck pickup was replaced with a custom wound pickup by Lindy Fralin, who did it for me personally . . . matches the output of the original!  

Other than the neck pickup, the pickguard and the tremolo bar, everything here is original or NOS.  It has the original Van Gent tuners, three string tree, original bridge (super hard to find), and the original tone and volume knobs (also rare has hen's teeth).

I removed the original printed circuit board (high and low pass filters).  The Steelphon single coil pickups (and the Fralin rewind) sound much better without it.  The 2 & 3 pickups are always heard together (that's how the original was wired) and I wired them out of phase (as the original had been wired for out of phase) for the super quacky sound if you want it.

The paint job is nice and shiny .  .  . but it's not perfect, by a long shot.  When you wet sand a guitar that has holes in it, the water gets in the holes, expands the wood and cracks the paint.  I tried to capture that in a few of the pictures.  

The neck is straight and while the fretboard is old (original) the guitar has super low action and plays great.  

A mint version of a GP IV would be over $1K.  This is priced to sell, it's a fun and showy guitar, there aren't many like it any more.