guitars

I'm using the word antique a bit loosely here, as I don't know what year it was made. But obvious context clues tell me that the guitar definitely has some years behind it. There's the obvious corrosion, plus OP said they inherited it, meaning almost certainly the original owner has passed away.

I actually spent about 6 years as a guitar technician for a band that amongst other equipment rocked a Fender Stratocaster and dual 1000W Peavey stacks.

They'd never allow such a corroded guitar to hook up to their equipment willy-nilly without a full professional teardown, inspection, cleanup, any necessary parts and repairs, new strings, set the intonations, etc.

Maybe just maybe I've got a more professional attitude about it, from experience.

Hell, at bare minimum at least clean the old strings and spray some WD-40 into the tuner knobs and tune the thing up, can't tell much of anything about how an old guitar is supposed to sound if you don't at least try tuning it.

But I still wouldn't go plugging it into an amplifier without checking the internals first, for all I know it could end up shorting out and blowing a perfectly good amplifier.