Anybody know who makes these?

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:44 pm

This thing is selling for a whopping $480 on Montreal Kijiji.
Given the "recycled instrument" business motto of the seller, I have questions about what the original brand of this guitar might have been.

I suspect it's going to be something hella cheap, maybe even one of those kit things.
The headstock seems to ring a bell. Any ideas?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:10 pm

I have no idea but the Grover machine heads and set-neck are a good sign.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:12 pm

it has the faint whiff of something that's been cut up and repainted.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:13 pm

That's because it was.
Those tuners are aftermarket, it's been refinished and I suspect the pickguard has been altered.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:15 pm

yeah, i remember the guy being clueless about scale length and appearing on here pretending not to be involved with the operation.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:19 pm

The swine. Had me fooled

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:23 pm

To be perfectly honest, the purpose of my posting this thread is that I've been slowly building up a case against the guy because I'm tired of seeing people get burned by him.
It doesn't look like the guy has learned a thing since his last run-in, here and it's become painfully clear that he's deliberately out to fuck people over.

Also, it may be of a matter of interest for some of you to learn that the subject of the first Trash guitars thread has been hanging out in a pawn shop window for quite some time, now.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:28 pm

I'm a bit pissed off because I used to have shots of a particularly offensive CV Duo-sonic that had got it's paint chipped off, a possible electronics upgrade and a replaced decal selling for three large ones but I lost them in last winter's great uploader freakout.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:16 pm

I've seen "Indie" (brand) guitars with that headstock. MIK, if I'm correct.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:03 pm

Dicked-with SX Callisto Jr.
Made in China, $140 through Rondo.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:03 am

I had a feeling it was an SX but I couldn't find the model on their site for some reason.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:57 am

It's annoying to search for different six-string solidbodies on the SX site, they're just listed low-to-high for price and that's about as organized as they get.

The LP Special style setnecks have long had my attention "backup plan" style, because Epiphone did a $300-$400 special run one recently and it sucked, like they weren't able to properly set pitched neck angles at that price point or something... a similarly priced G400 would blow it away.