Was planning to list it for sale somewhere, but no idea what to price it at. Any idea? Is it even worth someone's time fixing it up?
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Holy shit you are going to die on this hill.
You won't even explain how in the fuck this could actually happen. Give it up already, your amplifier is not sending all the power through your guitar, if it was, it still wouldn't matter if your coils are corroded or not.
My buddy John Fields, legendary electrical engineer for Peavey Electronics (he has done work on the 5150/6505), has told many people who have spread this myth that they are full of shit. If you are getting shocked while playing, it is not your guitar, it is the fucking thing giving it power.
Yes, the thing giving it power is the amplifier and the electrical circuit it's plugged into. And unless the guitar itself is wireless, the guitar is plugged into the amp...
It's entirely possible to plug a messed up guitar into a perfectly good amplifier, and then the next thing you know you've got a shorted amplifier. It's called a cascading failure. No it's not all that common, but it can and does happen.
Is it so much of a stretch of the imagination to be better safe than sorry, not take any chances, and treat the equipment with a little respect and at least inspect the internals before plugging it in?
It's not going to happen with corroded coils.