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I was in Miami at the time. The thing is with him, he's mad chill. I don't think he suffers guitar snobs or perfectionist well. If you're looking for a show piece, forget it. If you're looking for something functional and affordable it's all good.

I bought a guitar from him and an old Danelectro pickup, he only used to sell them one at a time and he would ask why you wanted one, i'm not even sure he still sells them. I think I bought the pickup for like $30, which even for 6 or 7 years ago was cheap.

If you want RAWK you should go with 2 PUPs. The lone neck PUP can sound awesome for solos, but it's waaaayyyy too beefy for distorted rhythm playing. I play clean most of the time, so I don't miss it.

yeah i just feel weird risking $400 for a guitar when ive heard lots of bad stories.

if i lived in the area or if i ever make it down there (to berkely) i will definitely go check out the place in person though to see what he has!!


anyways, i might build one of these here gutiars though, if i cna scratch up the dough for the neck

My cousin lives in SF, I think I'm gonna send him in there with $400 and tell him to grab me the best playing mustang he can find.

benecol wrote:

jcyphe wrote:I've bought from FatDawg. It was 100% satisfactory.

That's interesting - I got in touch with them a few years ago about having something similar made, but backed off when I heard lots of horror stories on the forums. How much this bothered me would have been on a sliding scale based on distance: if I was in the same city I'd have gone ahead with it, but being on a different continent and all...

I feel like I should have gone there at some point since I live so close. Maybe I'll do a short-scale reconnaissance mission and report my findings.

please do!!!

im specifically interested if those rebuilt dano jizzcasters are something tht they build and have soem for sale in the shop or if its by order only.

william wrote:a white pickguard made of masonite and shaped like this



(courtesy of finboy)

but with some of the details of this



like the shape of the lower part, would look really nice, i think. plus, that little dip at the bottom by the jack is perfect for keeping a pick.

or, you could take some inspiration from something like this

I think the good people over at danelectro might have read this post have a look at the new Hornet, new guitar for 2009 any one:
http://www.danelectro.com/guitars_main.html

there's been various threads about that already.

stewart wrote:there's been various threads about that already.

Ah, I only signed up the other day so I missed those treads. I just saw the pic William had posted and thought ‘I’ve seen one of those recently’

here's a link to the thread if you want to have a look:

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21683