Saw this Axis on ebay (270300737544), it amazes me how someone will list an auction for a guitar like this without cleaning it up first.... AND let it get to this state in the first place...gross! :
The reason why I have plastic gloves in my shop while working on such guitars.
Once had a bass player who said his bass lost sustain over the years. Even with new strings.
The grime and dirt was just as high as the frets and dampened the string!!!
That's nasty,.......some folks just don't get it,......at least the new owner ( if he can find one, maybe for cheap enough) won't have any misconceptions about the care and handling of the previous owner.
I would definately avoid this one. The first time this guy listed it a while back, he tried to pass it off as an EVH and had no mention of the word Axis. Plus he only had one very distant "artistic" photo. Who knows what else is wrong with it.
When I was a very young player I used to sweat alot and rusted the saddles and springs on a Tele, but how the hell do you get a fingerboard so dirty? Disgusting.