NGD (x3) & NAD (x1)

HarrySeven

Well, look what arrived last night...

A rather battered, but utterly butterly MIJ Tele/Partscaster




A (very) project Gibson Sonex 180 Deluxe




One of my favourite old Hohners - a JT-60





Aand finally, another Phoenix PHA-1 (#3 of 3 of these now)




Errr...that's it for now...

slacker

The sonex  will look great back in black (sic) not sure about the sound. A bandmate had one year's ago. You might want to try changing pickups.

I'm sure you'll have one or two thousand humbuckers somewhere.

Cool project..

HarrySeven

I've actually got a nice Sonex somewhere - must dig it out.

ICBM

HarrySeven said:

I've actually got a nice Sonex somewhere

 I have a unicorn in my back garden too.




I hope you didn't pay more than about £35 for that lot… if the Phoenix is working .

HarrySeven

ICBM said:

HarrySeven said:

I've actually got a nice Sonex somewhere

 I hope you didn't pay more than about £35 for that lot… if the Phoenix is working .

Cheek!

Winny_Pooh

Fallen off the wagon again eh
I like the Hohner, the Tele looks like a solid gigging guitar. 

impmann

An old band mate had a near identical Tele back in the mid 90s.

Started off life as a mij Fender Tele (I think they were called "Pop" Teles for some reason), with a six saddle top loading bridge. A local luthier chopped the bridge down and routed it for the bridge humbucker. His one retained the original white pickguard and standard Tele neck pickup. I don't think he ever used the neck pickup!!!

Fantastic necks iirc and his one sounded huge.

Funkfingers

Winny_Pooh said:

Fallen off the wagon again, eh

I notice that the neck pocket of the Sonex has storage capacity for up to twenty cigarette papers.

ICBM said:

I hope you didn't pay

Don't be daft.

jdbwales

JT60s are amazing guitars, great necks and versatile tone circuits - good find!

Funkfingers

http://i.imgur.com/VAnbEaj.jpg?1

Sesh

Your JT60 is in much better condition than mine.

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

http://i.imgur.com/VAnbEaj.jpg?1

Dammit, Mr. FF, that's looking mighty fine!

ICBM

The odd thing is that the quality of the guitars is probably the opposite of what you'd expect from the names on them.

The Hohner actually isn't bad - but it always annoyed me that they put generic Strat electrics in them (even with that tone circuit). At the time it seemed that *everything* had to sound like a Strat...

The Teles are tolerable, but desperately need a better bridge - or at least those horrible tone-killing flip-over saddles need to go.

Sonex... hmmm. Probably the worst guitar Gibson have ever made, and there is some stiff competition there!

Do the coloured graphics on the Phoenix light up? I thought they did, but I might be wrong.

Funkfingers

The pic was partly to illustrate that there is space in the pickup cavity for three P90s without recourse to woodworking tools. 

I cannot decide whether to go with three budget single coils or two American stacked-coil pickups and a dummy in the middle for show. The third alternative involves converting Gibson P100s into, er, "P50s" - if you catch my drift.

HarrySeven

ICBM said:

Do the coloured graphics on the Phoenix light up? I thought they did, but I might be wrong.

They do indeed!

Funkfingers

Shiny, shiny!

JDE

I really like the look of that Hohner. Very Urusei Yatsura, if anyone remembers them.

ICBM

Funkfingers said:

The pic was partly to illustrate that there is space in the pickup cavity for three P90s without recourse to woodworking tools. 

I cannot decide whether to go with three budget single coils or two American stacked-coil pickups and a dummy in the middle for show. The third alternative involves converting Gibson P100s into, er, "P50s" - if you catch my drift.

I have to say it looks brilliant with the P90s. I would definitely go for three proper pickups, based on the PRS Custom 22 I used to have - which I rewired with a standard 5-way lever switch (stock is a superswitch giving neck+bridge in the middle position) and a pull-switch to turn on the bridge pickup, so I could get all 7 sounds - all three pickups on together was the best. A 3-way toggle and a blend for the middle pickup would get you 6...

Sesh

Sesh said:

Your JT60 is in much better condition than mine.

http://i.imgur.com/xVJFTeg.jpg

Well the photo makes it look better. I got it with a mind to fix it up, but so far I've only replaced a crackly pot and the bridge. There's dozens of knocks, a cheaply and poorly done scratch plate and the metal parts are corroded. None in a tasteful relic way.

adamm82

I like the designs of the sonex never played one and read mixed reviews. I have been tempted to by one as I'd like an older Gibson guitar in my collection that's affordable. 

HarrySeven

ICBM said:

I have to say it looks brilliant with the P90s.

I agree - love it!