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I just scored an original 1976 58 reissue explorer with the original pickups in it. The tail peice, bridge, tuners, frets, and humbucker covers have a good deal of wear and or gunk on them. Do you think I should replace them with new ones or just clean off all the gunk and keap the aged look? And how would I go about cleaning off all that stuff?

The pickups are't PAF's if they're original on that guitar. Some pictures would help though.

I agree about the pickups.

If all the hardware functions properly, I would just clean the whole guitar with naphta. Afterwards, polish the guitar as you normally would.

Yeah if the hardware is still 100% functional just give it some naptha or denatured alcohol and you should be good.