Your #1 guitar: post a pic!
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:53 am
We all have one. That guitar that feels like home when you pick it up. You know where every dint and scratch came from.
I bought this thing when I was 17, at a clearance sale at a local music store. No one wanted the poor thing, with it's ruined nitro on the headstock (foam rubber guitar hangers!), crooked tuner, crooked bridge (it originally had a compensated tailpiece: they're not meant to be mounted at such an angle!) the pickup that almost touched the strings and the broken jack plate. But I loved it right away.
You can't tell from the pic but there are scars all over it (the nitro is so thick you can't get to the wood, and the serial number is almost illegible). Almost all the hardware and electronics have been changed, but it never lost its basic sweet woody sound. For some reason each note seems to have it's own "bloom" to it, and I've never played another guitar quite like it.
So let's see your wives!
I bought this thing when I was 17, at a clearance sale at a local music store. No one wanted the poor thing, with it's ruined nitro on the headstock (foam rubber guitar hangers!), crooked tuner, crooked bridge (it originally had a compensated tailpiece: they're not meant to be mounted at such an angle!) the pickup that almost touched the strings and the broken jack plate. But I loved it right away.
You can't tell from the pic but there are scars all over it (the nitro is so thick you can't get to the wood, and the serial number is almost illegible). Almost all the hardware and electronics have been changed, but it never lost its basic sweet woody sound. For some reason each note seems to have it's own "bloom" to it, and I've never played another guitar quite like it.
So let's see your wives!