vintage piece of shit

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:20 pm

cleaning out the house, found this:

egmond, dutch made rosetti vintage crappy guitar. the build quality of this guitar is non-existent, the neck was partially glued on and had a screw hidden by a fret marker attaching it to the body

neck screws on

anyhow i think i am gonna fix it up

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:21 pm

re-glued fingerboard on, then attached the neck a little more permanently with glue for stability. then levelled frets and removed zero fret.

scale length is 24 3/4" - is that the same as a gibson?

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:46 pm

chisa wrote:re-glued fingerboard on, then attached the neck a little more permanently with glue for stability. then levelled frets and removed zero fret.

scale length is 24 3/4" - is that the same as a gibson?

Yeah, it is. Why the fuck did you remove the zero fret?

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:56 pm

Gavin wrote:
chisa wrote:re-glued fingerboard on, then attached the neck a little more permanently with glue for stability. then levelled frets and removed zero fret.

scale length is 24 3/4" - is that the same as a gibson?
Yeah, it is. Why the fuck did you remove the zero fret?

it was knackered and it is easier to fit a nut there than have a zero fret

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:05 pm

Reminds me of those Eko Ranger acoustics. God they're fuckin awful. Virtually indestructible too.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:28 pm

My uncle Maurice has an Eko Ranger that has screwed up action, but I love the neck on it.

Paul McCartney's first electric guitar was a Rosetti that kept falling apart on him and was later converted to a makeshift bass before he got his Hofner. Lennon said something in an interview reprinted in an old GP I had like "Paul was playing this shitty 2 string guitar at first, just so he'd have something to do"

Not a solid body but a sunburst (black to red) semi-acoustic made in Holland by Egmond and renamed by the Rosetti firm, which imported them into the UK and sold them for about Â£20, which included the Royal pickup/scratchplate kit. "We went to play in Hamburg," McCartney says in the Bacon interview, "and I'd bought a Rosetti Solid 7 electric guitar in Liverpool [at Hessy's Music] before we went. It was a terrible guitar. It was really just a good-looking piece of wood. It had a nice paint job, but it was a disastrous, cheap guitar." (It looked pretty impressive in the advert.) Back in Liverpool, after temporary bassist Chas Newby left, McCartney restrung the Rosetti with three or four bass strings reportedly "borrowed" from a piano (photo below) and used it until Sutcliffe returned with his President bass. The Rosetti, once again with a full complement of strings, then played a return engagement in Hamburg, where it met its ignoble end. McCartney recalled in a 1964 interview that he "didn't want to get rid of it, but I had to, because it got smashed when I dropped it one day. It wasn't a complete write-off, but I didn't think it was worth repairing, so all of us . . . had a great time smashing it to bits by jumping up and down on it! Bit mad, I suppose, but we had to get rid of our pent-up energy sometimes and it seemed the 'obvious' thing to do at the time!"

McCartney had no less than TWO types of kurdtz??

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:34 pm

The second one has a Roland GK pickup. Whodda thunk it?