show me your rat guitar

baloneysandwich · Post by **baloneysandwich** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:56 pm

Ya know, that guitar that you've had since you were 14 and is barely hanging on for life. The one people are surprised to find out it can still make "music." It's ugly as shit and looks like it was found at the bottom of a lake. High marks for: RUST; lots of dirty peeled of sticker residue; rotting/broken wood; pounds of grime stuck in the frets; paint jobs gone wrong; mismatched parts; strange pick up/control configurations that maybe don't make sense. I want to see that monstrosity you hide under your bed but secretly love to play. I don't want to see "relics," anything tasteful, or anything you'd be proud to show to your parents (unless your dad is a character in Beyond Thunderdome).

Thanks!

wwrrss · Post by **wwrrss** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:00 pm

I think you mean 'beater'? and here's two of mine from the post your guitars thread.

Here's my Westone Thunder I, I bought it when I was 16 and playing in a noise-punk band,
looks fucked up but still works well enough, full of screwdriver holes and dings, controls disappeared into the
body during misadventure, had to build that little plate to refit them,
currently with only 4 strings but good for heavy drone bullshit.

Here's my Aria Pro II Cardinal Series, that now works as my, I need a guitar with 6 5 strings guitar.
Could do with stripping the neck on this to match the Westone, which just feels better.

baloneysandwich · Post by **baloneysandwich** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:22 pm

If those are beaters, yes. Prime specimen!

wwrrss · Post by **wwrrss** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:24 pm

baloneysandwich wrote:If those are beaters, yes. Prime specimen!

NAOW POST YRS.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:53 pm

The guitar i beat the shit out of and will probably keep for a long time is the Gothic Les Paul i bought from Ends a while back. It is my #1.
I have broken and repaired the headstock since i've had it, switched the pups, epiphone neck pup that sounds great and a gibson '57 classic in the bridge. Beer has been poured onto and chugged off this thing numerous times, it has been soaked in sweat. I love it.

I am about to bolt a bottle opener on the front for stage beers as soon as i find the right one. i need new straplocks on it and want to change the hardware back to black or that schaller vintage copper.

crabcorin'

this one cracks me up, drunk as fuck.

beer battered

i need to get close up pics to show off damage etc, it's wearing in well.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:23 pm

I think my only beater (that works) is probably ex-damien's/ex-sloan's epiphone goth which has been through a few headstock breaks as well. I dont think I have any current pictures handy. For some reason I have a really hard time putting stickers on guitars, maybe one day.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:02 am

Goots. wrote:I think my only beater (that works) is probably ex-damien's/ex-sloan's epiphone goth which has been through a few headstock breaks as well. I dont think I have any current pictures handy. For some reason I have a really hard time putting stickers on guitars, maybe one day.

OH FUCK I NEED TO BUY THAT BACK.

baloneysandwich · Post by **baloneysandwich** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:58 am

wwrrss wrote:
baloneysandwich wrote:If those are beaters, yes. Prime specimen!
NAOW POST YRS.

No photos on hand, that's why I wanna like at yours!

dub · Post by **dub** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:27 am

Photos taken on the smokers' balcony to be extra disgusting:

The paint practically rubs off when mixed with sweat. mmm

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:23 pm

I like those Liverpud guitars, esp. the red tape on the switch posts. Very authentic.

sp3k · Post by **sp3k** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:19 pm

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:58 pm

I got my G400 when I was 14, first decent guitar I ever owned... but that didn't last long! The stock pickups LITERALLY MELTED (Epi didn't use bobbins back then so the pickups were held together by wax) I have removed/re-set the neck after it loosened in a fall, replaced all the pickups twice, replaced the tuners 3 times (necessitating a good ream after the first vintage-post epi tuners, it has had Gibson Faded/Studio keystones and Grovers since then), rewired it more than 3 times (epi switches just don't care) I dropped the guitar on a drum pedal gear once and it chewed the treble side of the fingerboard edge around the 2nd fret, so I used wood filler and a sharpie to bondo it. I cracked the original nut so I put a brass one on, then a graphtech nut and a roller bridge for whammiez. A couple of the high frets under the bass strings have unplayable areas from denting and gouging. The neck position bucker ring once cracked in two places at once when my pick hit it (it cracked where my pick hit it as well as the exact opposite edge, as if shock damaged)

It was once covered in stickers but my dad got sick of looking at it and took them all off/polished it up while I was at school one day. He's English like that sometimes. To his credit he made it look brand new when it was already getting a bit trashy.

It is currently wired out-of-phase for the middle position and has a coil-tap on the bridge pickup (super distortion) activated by a push/pull volume pot.

BUT IT WORKS! It is actually one of my better-performing vibrato arm guitars too, right under the Jaguar. A friend of mine doesn't even play guitar but he wants to buy this one off me and use it as a Rocksmith controller because it reminds him of Fugazi, but I could only really sell it for like $50 honestly, and I don't want to.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:07 pm

dub wrote:Photos taken on the smokers' balcony to be extra disgusting:

The paint practically rubs off when mixed with sweat. mmm

what model is this?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:13 pm

dezb1 wrote:
what model is this?

Sonex

Alternative headstock

Same thing as the Maurader but with different pickguard, headstock shape and electronic config.

sholkham · Post by **sholkham** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:33 pm

My Yamaha EG112 brought when I started secondary school.

Sure Gibson can give you a fine veneer and PAF's but can they give you a combination vinyl/balsa wood scratchplate, chinked frets, and a tremelo that refuses to work properly?

I keep it mainly in Sonic youth tunings most of the time, not sure whether to get rid of it.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:26 pm

Old battered, late 60'sHagstrom II, butchered for humbuckers, refined Krylon Pumpkin Orange.

Gnarly pickguard.

Gets dragged around and thrown at drum sets a lot.

Lucamo · Post by **Lucamo** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:35 pm

laterallateral wrote:Old battered, late 60'sHagstrom II, butchered for humbuckers, refined Krylon Pumpkin Orange.
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Gnarly pickguard.

Gets dragged around and thrown at drum sets a lot.

That may be the sexiest guitar I've ever seen. I want to throw it at drum-sets.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:39 pm

cur · Post by **cur** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:35 am

Nick wrote:

That is pure greatness.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:46 am

sholkham wrote:My Yamaha EG112 brought when I started secondary school.

That's a cool set up though, I like your raptor jesus & prefuse73 stickers.

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