MikeChandler
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I created a monster and it's eating all my guitars. I only wish I was kidding.
The monster I am speaking of is the modified bernie marsden SE that I drilled out and installed pigtail US steel inserts, then full USA hardware, including the PRS USA stop tail, steel studs, grover tuners, and sd a2pro pickups.
The problem is that playing it has caused me to find all sorts of flaws in my other guitars. Leaving me wanting to sell them and get better guitars.
I know this sound ridiculous. Unfortunately it's true. This little guitar is a Gibson Les Paul & PRS McCarty eating monster. If any of you know me from other forums, you know I've dumped some really great guitars recently. All gone. All guitars that fell in battle against the monster.
It is a cosmic joke, an anomaly, designed to make me liquidate my guitar collection. There can't be any other reason. So I am thinking about purposefully destroying it, but not in a way that would invoke the Wrath of God, since he is probably sitting humorously behind this gag.
I'd destroy it in a dumbass, fumbling, stupid kind of way:
I don't like the bird inlays, and never did... so if I send it to a luthier to put in a brazilian rosewood fretboard with crown inlays, which would involve a refret, then ship it to have it completely stripped and painted maybe in large gold flake... it very well could come back as crap. Which would then make me feel good about my remaining guitars that it's currently making look really bad.
Of course if it came back as the devil incarnate, destroyer of all guitar souls, I'll be in even deeper.
What d'ya think?
(I hope this is received in the same humorous spirit with which it is given.. and sometimes it really does feel like this)
The monster I am speaking of is the modified bernie marsden SE that I drilled out and installed pigtail US steel inserts, then full USA hardware, including the PRS USA stop tail, steel studs, grover tuners, and sd a2pro pickups.
The problem is that playing it has caused me to find all sorts of flaws in my other guitars. Leaving me wanting to sell them and get better guitars.
I know this sound ridiculous. Unfortunately it's true. This little guitar is a Gibson Les Paul & PRS McCarty eating monster. If any of you know me from other forums, you know I've dumped some really great guitars recently. All gone. All guitars that fell in battle against the monster.
It is a cosmic joke, an anomaly, designed to make me liquidate my guitar collection. There can't be any other reason. So I am thinking about purposefully destroying it, but not in a way that would invoke the Wrath of God, since he is probably sitting humorously behind this gag.
I'd destroy it in a dumbass, fumbling, stupid kind of way:
I don't like the bird inlays, and never did... so if I send it to a luthier to put in a brazilian rosewood fretboard with crown inlays, which would involve a refret, then ship it to have it completely stripped and painted maybe in large gold flake... it very well could come back as crap. Which would then make me feel good about my remaining guitars that it's currently making look really bad.
Of course if it came back as the devil incarnate, destroyer of all guitar souls, I'll be in even deeper.
What d'ya think?
(I hope this is received in the same humorous spirit with which it is given.. and sometimes it really does feel like this)
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