like renovating a kitchen by leaving all functional equipment the same but replacing the floor with rope netting
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
Here at Douglas Renovated Instrument Co., I take in and evaluate less than perfect or perhaps otherwise lackluster guitars from famous makers . I then begin the process of fixing, upgrading, crafting and reshaping them into affordable, treasured, comfortable, quality instruments for years to come. Through this process I squeeze out the absolute best instrument possible for an affordable price
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
Always impressed by/jealous of the self-confidence of these people - he didn’t just take a chance on ruining one guitar to see how people would respond, he ruined perhaps dozens of them just knowing in his heart people would love them.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
when you're torn between being a vintage fender enthusiast but also really love steinberger basses
― joygoat, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
"mostly I squeeze the guitar body through a somewhat H-shaped hole. this is an upgrade to the old guitar shape, which was not looking like an H at all."
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
i ... don't hate the body shape. it's mostly the body shape combined with the standard strat/tele pickups and pickguards that looks dumb
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
bizarrely reminiscent of those no-headstock steinbergers
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
it's like an 8th grade shop class tried to make an Ovation Breadwinnerhttps://reverb.com/item/39403721-ovation-modified-rat-rod-electric-guitar-rebuilt-breadwinner-1970s-black
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
One of the best threads on Offset Guitars details the "un-Voxing" of a 1961 Jazzmaster.https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=111273
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
the "butchering of a classic" aspect of that reminds me that somewhere in the woods next to my parent's old house is my uncle's original late 60s dallas arbiter fuzz face (Reverb Estimated Used Price $1,340 — $3,035) that my cousin and I buried because it looked like a land mine
― joygoat, Thursday, 22 April 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
hahaha wow
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 April 2021 01:17 (three years ago) link
lmao incredible
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 April 2021 01:52 (three years ago) link
you need a metal detectorgeddit?
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 22 April 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 5:20 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is absolutely amazing. i'm so impressed at people who can do stuff like this.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 April 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
well, it's been an emotional roller coaster! found my dream guitar upthread...bought it
right away get a message from the seller, hey thanks i'll ship it asap, all coolnext day he's like UPS location closed early, couldn't get it all the packing stuff and get it out, okay cool no worries
weekend goes by...no word...write on monday, write hey just wondering if it's going out today, just let me know
he writes back:Hi there, I want to greatly apologize for this inconvenience, but I won’t be able to ship this out anymore. It’s my first time dealing with this situation, and to proceed I am initiating a full refund here through reverb. Again, I apologize for this whole situation.
so I write back, i'm a little confused here, anything can be shipped. do you want $75 for shipping instead of $50 (this is chicago to minneapolis so i think that's more than generous), never writes back...i get a refund to my account, write again hey if we can work something out let me know...never hear back
today though I went to Music Go Round to check out this Godin guitar. I'm a huge fan of their guitars especially the Seagull acoustics. Quality wise they are really amazing for the money. Only problem, usually their designs are a little "off" and dorky looking, but this new model looks pretty cool (looks better in IRL than in photos)
https://godinguitars.com/product/radium-winchester-brown-rn
not as cool as the tele, but honestly this thing just feels and sounds so good. it's weird, tele shape but it has a belly cut like a strat...neck is actually shorter, like a gibson sg neck kinda?
HSH pickups, tele style switch but 5-way...coil tap for the humbuckers so it can basically be a strat or super strat
the woodgrain looks really nice IRL, the shape is decent, not quite tele but close enough. the whole guitar just feels exceptionally high quality, got a good price on it. for a (mostly) home recording guitar it's got about as much flexibility as you'd want.
i think it might look good with a bigsby down the road
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 April 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
that's nice looking, especially as godins go. are you thinking about doing a filtertron in one of the HB slots?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 April 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
yeah I think so, the humbuckers do sound good thoughthe fit/finish is pretty incredible for a $750I think a Bigsby will make it look better
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 April 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
bummer about the offerup fiasco. wonder if he got a better offer after the fact and bailed.
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Thursday, 22 April 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
yeah sounds like. randos are gonna flake whether it's on reverb or anywhere else.
just noticed that the godin has that kind of open routing around the pickups. nice utilitarian vibe.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
shout out to joanie - they had a really great catalog beyond sex packets
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 April 2021 01:17 (three years ago) link
lol oops but yeah I like the routing
lol
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
not personally feeling the Guthrie Govan x tele x stoptail vibe BUT I def know the feeling when an oddball gets its hooks in.if it plays good it is good!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 23 April 2021 05:00 (three years ago) link
Lol at “pro reliced”https://reverb.com/item/40275573-fender-2021-mim-limited-custom-color-capri-orange-standard-player-pro-reliced-upgraded-62reissue-usa?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=40275573
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 06:00 (three years ago) link
OMG
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 06:02 (three years ago) link
Is the professional doing the relicing like an accountant or something?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 06:04 (three years ago) link
that is someone who started to take off the inch thick polyester finish to repaint it and then realized how much work was going to be involved
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 06:12 (three years ago) link
When the stage blowtorch bit goes wrong
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
what on earth are these people doing to these guitarshttps://reverb.com/item/40331699-charvel-custom-chop-shop-heavy-relic-pro-mod-dk24-hh-2pt-stained-maple-neck-with-tweed-hard-case
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Thursday, 29 April 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
THOSE GUITARS SUCK A LOT
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
AND I AM ANGRY ABOUT IT
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
comedy gold
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 30 April 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link
In my head I can see the """luthier""" going to town with a chisel and hammer while the Meat Loaf song about killing a boy with a Stratocaster plays.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 30 April 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
that guitar looks like it has some kind of tree disease
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 30 April 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
Reliced guitars are the stupidest trend ever.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 30 April 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
I don't really get the appeal of the Esquire, I don't understand why you'd want one over a Telecaster, you're just giving yourself less options and not gaining anything (and I mean it's not like the Telecaster is some overly complex guitar to begin with)https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/squier-esquire/?amp
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
I'd be kind of shocked if those weren't routed for a neck pickup anyway rather than setting up some sort of new cnc machine to NOT cut them
― joygoat, Friday, 30 April 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
the Brad Paisley Equire even goes so far to hide his special "Secret Agent" neck pickup underneath the pickguard! like what are we doing this for?
https://shop.fender.com/en-US/electric-guitars/telecaster/brad-paisley-esquire/0140322398.html
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
wow that one is extremely silly.
and yeah, as for the esquire in general it's funny to treat it as some sort of classic model and not what it was which was a budget option based on 1950s cost factors where the extra $20 or whatever for a second pickup actually mattered.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 30 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
i'm sure it's cool if you find an actually old one
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
being the guy who relics guitars seems like a fun job, just flinging acid and whipping belt buckles at ugly guitars all day
― na (NA), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Technically an Esquire should have wiring that you can't replicate with a Telecaster but I don't know how modern ones are wired.
I use the bridge pickup 99% of the time, I would like an Esquire.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
The secret pickup on the Paisley doesn't seem any sillier than any of the million other aesthetic concerns that govern guitar purchases - "looking cool" (whether that means pointy metal guitars or looking like a 1952 Bakersfield guitar to you) is why Fender is worth half a billion dollars.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, April 29, 2021 6:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
natural wear with strange mods will never not be cool tho
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Friday, 30 April 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
Been enjoying this thread. I like Telecaster and Strat equally now but didn’t like like Strats for a long time as they seemed like guitars for high schoolers.
Question for all you guitar nerds regarding reliced guitars: you see like Bruce Springsteen or whoever playing this super beat up looking guitar that looks cool from all the use and abuse over the years. Man! He’s really been playing the shit outta that guitar!! So cool that people want to buy new guitars that look distressed.
I have a guitar, an American Tele, that my band bought new about 20 years ago. That band was drunk and irreverent and very hard on our equipment, and toured quite a bit with that guitar. The band broke up and I ended up with the guitar and formed another band that toured hard for years with that guitar. That was the only guitar I played for twenty years and hundreds upon hundreds of shows. Dropping it. Throwing it in air to band members on stage. Throwing into the crowd. Seeing luggage handlers throwing it (in its case and breaking multiple cases) across the tarmac from the plane. This guitar does not look distressed or worn out AT ALL. It has nicks all over it but that’s about it.
I also have a 70’s Musicmaster bass that someone found in a barn behind an abandoned house and that one has been on several tours and it doesn’t look beat up either.
I am inclined to think all beat up guitars are frauds and these people are taking sand paper to try to make them look road worn.
Thoughts?
― SA, Sunday, 2 May 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
poly finishes don't wear like nitro
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 2 May 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
It's a Telecaster, their durability is both myth and some time joke meme in some musician circles.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 May 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
The same as the idea you can break a Gibson head stock by looking at it too hard.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 May 2021 04:24 (three years ago) link
I don't know, from belt buckle rash to worn necks, I can't imagine playing any guitar so much that I literally leave my mark on it. Someone like Springsteen ... maybe. For sure his famous (more or less) Esquire, which he bought used and used a lot, saw its share of abuse, and had its share of repairs; I saw a show once where a sliver of the body literally flew off mid-song, much to Bruce's amusement. Anyway, they were constantly gluing it, fixing it, doing stuff to it, but I know he also not too long ago finally had to retire it, because it was falling apart. On the other hand, there are so many famous, iconic guitars, and very few of them afaict look totally beat to shit. Like, Joe Strummer's did, Stevie Ray Vaughan's did. But Neil Young's, Paul McCartney's, tons of guitars played by Mike Campbell, all sorts of old guitars played by folks might be beat up but not on the verge of death. Some folks probably play relics or replacements (Springsteen, for example, is not some vintage guitar purist), but I bet most acts just have their techs take good care of them.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 May 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
Willie Nelson has entered the chat
― Frumious Cumberbatch (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 2 May 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link