Basement Guitar

[Haze]

I made a thread about this a while ago but i don't remember what people said this was. the misses drug this out of her grandparents basement and it sat around in her closet for a while. I brought it over to my house, put a cheap set of strings on it and adjusted the truss rod. Acoustically its really fun to play, the neck is beefy but skinny. i measured it out to be a 24.75" scale which is new to me.

judging from the grime lines where the pickguard used to be i made a rough template out of paper and dove into the parts bin. Came up with a 18k humbucker out of a squire cyclone and some 500k pots [no jack]

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i didnt snap a pic of it without the paper but i outlined the routes which you can see here

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anyone familiar with these things?

[plopswagon]

might be a Canora, looks a lot like this bass:

[Haze]

body shape and the burst method is quite similar. Its the neck that is puzzling me. The headstock is shaped like a teisco but the only markings on the guitar are "Steel Reinforced Neck" and "Japan" on the neck plate

[Haze]

She be done!






The positioning of the pickup is rather odd, but it has a good mix of both neck and bridge pickup characteristics. Cleans are kind of cool but it loves the Dirty Little Secret and Eau Claire Thunder. The damn thing won't intonate for shit though seeing as how there is no adjustments to make....

[hotrodperlmutter]

dude, that looks great. how does it play even though it doesn't intonate?

[Haze]

Well the neck is a tad bent and the truss rod doesn't want to do much of anything, the string tension us the one thing that's saving it at this point. The action needs to stay a bit high or else things buzz so its definitely not what I'm used to. The gibson scale is quite comfortable though!

[Haze]

I should also add that it has a $3 set of Target brand 9 gauge strings...