I used to play guitar a bit as a kid, but really have not touched it in, oh 25 or so years.
I'm thinking of picking it up again. I made my electric guitar (okay I bought the neck) from scratch when I was 14. It still looks pretty good, the brass bridge is tarnished and the clear varnish is fading a bit:
The body is Black Walnut laminated with Maple to transmit sustain through the maple neck to the bridge. I wanted to make a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul - I loved the shape of the Strat, but liked the wood top and three pickups for some reason.
My original version had a Strat pickup in the middle, now it is a blank. The neck pickup came out of an old les Paul or something, the bridge pickup is an original Bill Lawrence (circa 1976).
The original version had some sort of active electronics inside (hence the three mini switches), since then it's a basic wiring setup, two of the switches do nothing, one thins off the output.
What, if anything should I do? Are these old pickups worth anything, or are newer ones better? Catch me up to what I've missed in the last 36 years....