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There are few things worse than guitar butchering
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:58 pm
by Taylor704
I didn't think these sorts of things happened to good guitars, but I've sadly been proven wrong.
This advert was on the London Gumtree page from Monday and for the life of me, I cannot think what the owner was planning.
- Why would you take the P90 pickups from that Jaguar, which make it sound great? If he wanted to get single coils in there, why not grab an ordinary Jaguar, Fender or Squier, otherwise?
- Having done that, why would you then try to cover the routing with possibly the worst pickguard I've ever seen?
These sort of things are just upsetting, and they remind me of what a cruel musical world we live in.
Rant over.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:11 pm
by luciguci
i never really liked that specific jaguar model but really what the fuck is the point of this at all? the stock model was perfectly fine, if they wanted tiny single coil jaguar sounds so badly on the cheap they could have just bought a squier jag??? this one photo is absolutely perplexing like even the old humbucker hardtail squier jags wouldve been a better option for butchering
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:16 pm
by luciguci
this really has me all fucked up like i need to sit down, and im already sitting. why did they do that tiny pickguard? why is it so badly cut? why didnt they make a bigger pickguard to make it at least look decent rather than the hacking of a 13 year old with expendable funds? who thought that the pickups needed upgrading?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:18 pm
by YuriK
why...
I actually own this "jag" model. it's ugly, but the pups are great and WTF THAT PICKGUARD WHY?
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:42 pm
by meltedbuzzbox
daftsupernova wrote:this really has me all fucked up like i need to sit down, and im already sitting
Fucking LOL!!!!!!
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:25 am
by Ankhanu
daftsupernova wrote:this really has me all fucked up like i need to sit down, and im already sitting.
I don't think I can say anything better, nor more appropriate than this.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:15 am
by speedfish
daftsupernova wrote:this really has me all fucked up like i need to sit down, and im already sitting. why did they do that tiny pickguard? why is it so badly cut? why didnt they make a bigger pickguard to make it at least look decent rather than the hacking of a 13 year old with expendable funds? who thought that the pickups needed upgrading?
It's a tremolo plate cover from the back of a Stratocaster.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:30 am
by cur
He did to that guitar what Rivers Cuomo did to those kids.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 5:15 am
by luciguci
speedfish wrote:daftsupernova wrote:this really has me all fucked up like i need to sit down, and im already sitting. why did they do that tiny pickguard? why is it so badly cut? why didnt they make a bigger pickguard to make it at least look decent rather than the hacking of a 13 year old with expendable funds? who thought that the pickups needed upgrading?
It's a tremolo plate cover from the back of a Stratocaster.
YEAH i noticed that but it look like the tremolo plate from the cheapest strat ever, shit looks all rough around the edges
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:39 am
by Fakir Mustache
Yeah, that's what he did, he possibly wanted to try out single coils, or wanted to keep the P90s for another guitar.
So he did a shit job and is selling it, he obviously doesn't like it either, not that unusual. If you buy it you can fix it nicely, only it's not that cheap.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:19 am
by Rox
Good gawd.....
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:52 am
by NickS
Good thing youse guys never saw my Swinger when it had a random bit of green transparent figured plastic holding the pickup in place.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:54 am
by ekwatts
Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington: THIS IS GOING TO LOOK AWESOME
*does the job, looks shit*
Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington: THIS LOOKS AWESOME (little voice in the back of your mind; it looks shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit) IT LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME but I'm probably going to sell it.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:30 am
by BobArsecake
Don't worry, about it, it doesn't matter.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:32 am
by George
goes to show you can't polish a turd
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:29 am
by ekwatts
BobArsecake wrote:Don't worry, about it, it doesn't matter.
You needlessly modded that sentence with a strat jack.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:31 am
by BobArsecake
Curses.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:01 pm
by George
thats why ive adopted minimal effort posting
you people wear your hearts on your sleeves too much
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:06 pm
by BobArsecake
Minimal in content or quality?
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:10 pm
by ekwatts
both