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thank you thank you, couldn't have done it without the massive amount of ss help

endsjustifymeans wrote:God that p-rail tele looks great... you did such a good job on that.

My thoughts exactly. Ace finish and you kept the mods tasteful - just an all-around WIN.

My wreck-caster.

now THAT is a guitar with a story.

do tell.

Or in the case that the story involves deliberate abrasion and shoe polish, don't.

Well, the sad thing is that I don't realy know the whole story myself. I found it in the attic of my uncle's house. He said it was his when he had my age. It was his first guitar which he used mainly for gigging. I could keep it because he doesn't use it anymore.
I dont realy know how the neck has gotten that dirty. He said something about a him letting it lay outside during night at a gig in somebodies house. I can only say that its a bit worse looking on the picture. In real life it's more like brownish. I also think it's made of bits and pieces that don't realy fit together. My uncle says that the last modification was the bridge, because the old one was simply falling apart.

Looks sweet. I like it.

Coolcat wrote:Well, the sad thing is that I don't realy know the whole story myself. I found it in the attic of my uncle's house. He said it was his when he had my age. It was his first guitar which he used mainly for gigging. I could keep it because he doesn't use it anymore.
I dont realy know how the neck has gotten that dirty. He said something about a him letting it lay outside during night at a gig in somebodies house. I can only say that its a bit worse looking on the picture. In real life it's more like brownish. I also think it's made of bits and pieces that don't realy fit together. My uncle says that the last modification was the bridge, because the old one was simply falling apart.

now that is a good story. amazing looking guitar. how old would that make it? is there a decal on headstock? it doesn't appear to be string through body, maybe it's 70s MIJ?

Well, I realy dont know. The headstock has no logo, however in the right light you can still see the fender telecaster decal. It is 100% sure the original neck. He bought it somewhere around 1980 I think, but it already was a used guitar at that moment.

1st post here. GUITARS!

My 1986 ibanez proline. pl1770


My first guitar, the very cheapest acoustic at target. Drawing compliments of Blake.

Welcome. Any chance for a closer picture of the acoustic? I'd like to see the drawing in better detail.

It's my weapon of choice...



And my sword too.

Sure. here is the acoustic in better detail.

Coolcat wrote:Well, the sad thing is that I don't realy know the whole story myself. I found it in the attic of my uncle's house. He said it was his when he had my age. It was his first guitar which he used mainly for gigging. I could keep it because he doesn't use it anymore.
I dont realy know how the neck has gotten that dirty. He said something about a him letting it lay outside during night at a gig in somebodies house. I can only say that its a bit worse looking on the picture. In real life it's more like brownish. I also think it's made of bits and pieces that don't realy fit together. My uncle says that the last modification was the bridge, because the old one was simply falling apart.

It looks like a Squier affinity tele with a failry convinvcing relic job on the body and a disastrous one on the neck.

wilrecar77 wrote:Sure. here is the acoustic in better detail.

Is it done in sharpie? It looks very tribal, and well done.

silly_rabbit_band wrote:

wilrecar77 wrote:Sure. here is the acoustic in better detail.

Is it done in sharpie? It looks very tribal, and well done.

Thanks, it was freehand in sharpie. My friend Blake did it for me on my birthday.
Honestly though, the acoustic isn't all that great. Intonation is off in places pretty badly and the action is retarded.
It looks cool though.

FREEHANDED?!?!?! dang, he's good.

He is pretty good, he wants to be a tattoo artist when he grows up.
I was thinking about asking him to do something similar to my electric if i ever refinish it, but with proper materials and not completely freehand.
The acoustic sounds pretty awesome in C standard.

Thanks for the closeup. It does look pretty cool.

aen wrote:

Coolcat wrote:Well, the sad thing is that I don't realy know the whole story myself. I found it in the attic of my uncle's house. He said it was his when he had my age. It was his first guitar which he used mainly for gigging. I could keep it because he doesn't use it anymore.
I dont realy know how the neck has gotten that dirty. He said something about a him letting it lay outside during night at a gig in somebodies house. I can only say that its a bit worse looking on the picture. In real life it's more like brownish. I also think it's made of bits and pieces that don't realy fit together. My uncle says that the last modification was the bridge, because the old one was simply falling apart.

It looks like a Squier affinity tele with a failry convinvcing relic job on the body and a disastrous one on the neck.

it really, really does. no string through body? check. les paul style jack? check. black nut? check. no skunk stripe? check.