The Worst Colour/Finish/Detail on a guitar - Ever. Pt.2

glw · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject:

Death threats... Yeah, that would be Christian.

(IRONY!!!!!)

lee_UK · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

1bassleft wrote:

I was hoping that

Quote:

don't even think of listing that as a "Hallowe'en Ugly Guitar" or you'll be smoted smiteily and I'll be able to smell the lightning burns from here

might have might have been read as me joking (albeit with a justified paranoia that some "conservatives" would indeed try and skip around the "vengeance is mine" theory).

Anyhoo, and notwithstanding Lee's deadpan is hard to judge (like Tim, I find intensely North European-looking Jesus a bit odd), that seller does have some stuff that intrigues me. Absolutely straight up, I really do like this:

Again, I have no idea why AAAA flame or quilt maple should be covered with solid paint (A ratings are generally meant to denote figuring; some ash can have lovely grain) but the hardware's good and all the inevitable compromises are well-judged. I also think the proportions are right and butterscotch looks lovely. Twin-necks don't really make sense, but it doesn't stop me thinking I'd like it for the heck.

That one is quite nice, nice flow on the body shape, necks do look a bit odd, i wonder if a double neck Tele/Strat has ever been produced, the top half of a Strat with a 62 neck and the bottom half of a Tele, with any Tele neck other than that horendous 50's one, that would be very interesting, glw will know...

glw · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Yep, I've seen one of those (doubleneck Strat Tele). Isn't there a pic of one on the old Strat Collectors website? (Just checked - http://www.stratcollector.com/ - it's a Strat/Esquire doubleneck).

There were a couple of Gibson Les Paul/Fender Strat doublenecks made - obviously two guitars that had been joined together. I can't remember who the main guy was who used one of these, although apparently the other guy who's got one is Ozzy Osbourne and he's not a guitarist.

lee_UK · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

That looks very nice, esquire is a strange choice though, for something like this you would surely go for a 3 pickup Tele like the Nashville or Jerry Donaghue.

Tim · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject:

Nicely deciphered 1bassleft, that was the final of several drunken drafts, not wanting to cause offence but picking up on the inaccuracy of the image...

EDIT: As for the twin-neck, I'd love to see a useful one executed so well, but the 6/6 ones just leave me cold...you could add a pickup to a 6-string and get the same effect surely?!

glw · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:51 am Post subject:

Tim, not if you wanted to use a different tuning on one neck or else set it up for slide playing or something.

Tim · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

Ah, cunning...drunken mind didn't think of that, still, two different tunings in one song...boo!
Should be a 6/12 Very Happy

glw · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

So awful that it's genius!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=270286976675

1bassleft · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject:

Another "Dobbin" puts you in the frame, glw. Who'd want to buy this guitar? Why a twerp, of course.

Speaking of (non-amp making) marshall, since when did he start taking on skinheads in Harrington jackets? Gunfight at the ASBO corral?

lee_UK · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

Why a twerp, master Yoda me thinks.

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