Ok, I know........

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:15 am

Some of you guys are a little down on me for being a guitar whore-der, but in my defense I couldn't resist.
So......what does this:

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It's a '68/'69 as near as I can tell. The pot dates are '67, the neck stamp and pickups are from '68 and the serial seems to be between '68 and '69. I dunno for sure. It is a factory refin over comp blue. In the spots where the paint is worn off you can see the blue underneath. The neck finnish still has a gloss to it and feels like it wasn't played too much.

Before anyone yells at me for destroying this vintage beauty take a look at this mayhem

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Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:49 am

What the piss happend to the routing shit? waow.

astro · Post by **astro** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:57 am

It looks like the routing was done by termites.

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:59 am

Sloan wrote:What the piss happend to the routing shit? waow.

Humbuckerz.
It is a shame, the rest of the guitar is in great shape. It doesn't bother me too much though, it will surely get a nice coat of beer and sweat once I start playing it out.

dodgedartdave · Post by **dodgedartdave** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:00 am

If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:01 am

shit cakes...

freekandy · Post by **freekandy** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:13 am

i want a comp orange stang soooo bad. there so attractive. total bonerz. but there so expensive.

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:35 am

They should have stuck hot rails in it to begin with jeez.

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:40 am

dodgedartdave wrote:If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"

None of the solder joints on the switches or pots were original anyway.

Tex-czech · Post by **Tex-czech** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:33 am

did you replace the 250k volume pot with a 1meg? Was the tone and capacitor original?

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:33 am

Justin wrote:They should have stuck hot rails in it to begin with jeez.

haha true.

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:34 am

rodvonbon wrote:
dodgedartdave wrote:If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"
None of the solder joints on the switches or pots were original anyway.

he really does say that, too.

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:31 am

Tex-czech wrote:did you replace the 250k volume pot with a 1meg? Was the tone and capacitor original?

I left the tone pot alone and it looks like the cap was replaced at some point. The volume pot is now a 500k.

dodgedartdave · Post by **dodgedartdave** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:56 pm

Sublimedo wrote:
rodvonbon wrote:
dodgedartdave wrote:If that pickup sounds the way you want, I wouldn't care if it was all orginial, I say "cool dude!"
None of the solder joints on the switches or pots were original anyway.
he really does say that, too.

Yep. that's my philosophy. If you love and you are going to keep, then screw original; make it the way you want it.

purplehaze19x · Post by **purplehaze19x** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:53 pm

Hey Rodvon, Dont you have a reissue comp orange stang? I think you should sell it to me.

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:15 am

purplehaze19x wrote:Hey Rodvon, Dont you have a reissue comp orange stang? I think you should sell it to me.

I got mine on Ebay, free shipping and no import tax. They are easily available and come up every couple of weeks.

purplehaze19x · Post by **purplehaze19x** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:47 am

rodvonbon wrote:
purplehaze19x wrote:Hey Rodvon, Dont you have a reissue comp orange stang? I think you should sell it to me.
I got mine on Ebay, free shipping and no import tax. They are easily available and come up every couple of weeks.

Yeah, but, yours is already modded. ....but yeah i'll keep my eyes open for one.

Phenderphreaque · Post by **Phenderphreaque** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:07 pm

My thought is that if some dumbass already raped a guitar you now own, theres no wrong in taking advantage of whats already been done, I bought a 88 MIJ strat that looked great until I got the PG off and low and behold some doofus had taken a butter knife or something to the rear p'up route, and since there was a WD pg on it I said screw it and made a fat strat. That being said I would NEVER hack up ANY unmolested guitar. To all of those who have screwed great guitars by "modding" them I give you the one fingered salute. Lloyd

bassintom · Post by **bassintom** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:21 pm

Rod...you're cornering the market..that's not fair....blah,blah blah...
Mustang whoring SOB

I'm just jealous