Shawn@PRS
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My brother and I bought a 1965 (I think) Fender Mustang and he decided to strip it with 80 grit sandpaper!
Mid 70's nice natural P-bass...I thought the Leo Quan bridges were cool, but didn't know they came in different heights...so I bought one, and got out the hammer and chisel. Still see it show up around Westminster every once in a great while...I did a horrendous job. But, to my defense, I was around 15 at the time.
Hind site being 20/20, I'm sure you wish now that you would have used 75 grit instead.My brother and I bought a 1965 (I think) Fender Mustang and he decided to strip it with 80 grit sandpaper!
We need pics! Look, I'm sure Picasso didn't start out doing masterpieces either.Isn’t it horrible when you have to see them again? I modded an ESP M1 back in the 90’s and it occasionally pops up on CL touting a “custom” finish.
We need pics! Look, I'm sure Picasso didn't start out doing masterpieces either.
While I haven't ruined many guitars, just remember that your talking to the guy who A) threw an amp owned by Chet Atkins in the trash....
No! It was a small Gibson tube amp and it went from "scratchy" to no sound except noise. I didn't know at the time that it probably needed nothing but a tube replaced. I wanted a new amp and it didn't work. Later, talked to my friend that I got it from, who was Chet's nephew, and when he asked if I still had it, he said "you know that was Uncle Chets amp, don't you?" Well... now I do!My question is, did you know it was Chet Atkins owned before you threw it out?
No! It was a small Gibson tube amp and it went from "scratchy" to no sound except noise. I didn't know at the time that it probably needed nothing but a tube replaced. I wanted a new amp and it didn't work. Later, talked to my friend that I got it from, who was Chet's nephew, and when he asked if I still had it, he said "you know that was Uncle Chets amp, don't you?" Well... now I do!
75 grit, 80 grit, whatever it takes.Hind site being 20/20, I'm sure you wish now that you would have used 75 grit instead.
Isn’t it horrible when you have to see them again? I modded an ESP M1 back in the 90’s and it occasionally pops up on CL touting a “custom” finish.
You didn't like to "bend until in tune"? Lightning bolt bridges sucked.In 1970 I had a tune-o-matic bridge installed on a 1965 SG Special. Back then, it was just an old guitar, no one worried about keeping it original in those days, and truthfully, it sounded better with the TOM, and stayed in tune better.
But I couldn’t afford to have it refinished, so the tech simply glued some mahogany dowels in the holes where the old Gibson one piece bridge was, and stained the ends to match the cherry finish. The guitar is still around, and still looks every bit as homely as it did in 1970. I just didn’t care how a guitar looked back then.
Obviously, any value compared to an un-modded one is minimal. But I got an awful lot of use out of that thing; at least, that’s my excuse for destroying its value!
75 grit, 80 grit, whatever it takes.
I wore out (it was not new when I bought it) a Washburn G5V, It was my practice guitar. (I kept the gigging guitar for gigs). So I thought I would experiment with a new body shape...
I soon cut into bits of routed cavities and... yes. I had to bin it. But I had utterly worn out the fretboard anyway. It was cosigned to the tip.
This one is not serious at all. Last month I decided to reverse a pickup ring on a semi-hollowbody Gibson ES-339. The pickup was positioned at an odd angle so it seemed worth a try as the rings are wedge shaped. All went well until I tried to re-attach the pickup to the ring. The 2 springs were too hard to press down into position (I also have arthritic thumbs). So the spring fired off into the ceiling but I found it. On the 2nd attempt it pinged off into the wall and ricocheted off somewhere in the recesses of the kitchen. No I never found it. I ended up cutting the remaining spring in half and using those instead.
oh.. and this guy must rank somewhere as the worst mod (maybe a uk only gag?)