Well, if we're talking about optimistic Ebay listings......

xmrchi

Ooh I didn't see those...... Dam he needs to be stopped! Ha

Heartfeltdawn

Oh, the irony. Looking forward to 'Luthiery for Cackhanded Idiots'. 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-For-Dummies-Mark-Phillips/dp/0764599046

Iamnobody

mrchi;268367" said:

That's a bargain compared to this one! :-)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191212338542?_trksid=p2059216.m2763.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

But look at the description from 'Honest Phillips':

"...low cost but the highest quality neck
you will get anywhere..."

Fuck it; I'm getting rid of my Mex Tele neck with its measly 6 tuner holes and perfect finish...and buying this.

paisleysoul

That guy is a loony! We check his eBay page every few weeks at the shop I work in to see what guitar he's 'Improved' with a sideways tele pick-up in the neck or what 'Wide necked 6 string' he's recently. Always good for a laugh. He had a choice Jazzmaster thing the other week, let me see if he still has it....

paisleysoul

Found it!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Squier-by-Fender-Peavey-Tele-jag-Custom-/191197658481?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c8444bd71

ThePrettyDamned

mrchi;268367" said:

That's a bargain compared to this one! :-)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191212338542?_trksid=p2059216.m2763.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Someone tried to make a 12 string neck out of it.

Apparently, it didn't quite work out.

usedtobe

I think I've actually seen it all, now. And I sort of wish I hadn't..

TheOtherDennis

paisleysoul said:

Found it!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Squier-by-Fender-Peavey-Tele-jag-Custom-/191197658481?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c8444bd71

That's horrific. In the name of god, why?

"This guitar originally had two humbuckers, which shows a lack of imagination." Wtf? It had two hummers because it's fucking supposed to have two hummers. Yes I know this didn't begin life as a Lester, but is he really saying that the man who designed the original solid double hummer guitar 'lacked imagination' just because the semi or hollow bodied guitars had done it first? Did Les Paul lack imagination? Really? For the whole of his 93 years, one of the most admired, feted, talented and skilled jazz guitarists the planet has ever seen, "lacked imagination" because he wanted a guitar with twin hummers??

I have no problem with someone disagreeing with the majority, but don't be a twat about it. Just say "I've always preferred having a humbucker twinned with a single coil" which is a fair enough viewpoint and is open to debate on perfectly polite terms. But to come out with something as absurd as "it lacks imagination" says more about him than it does about any of the squillions of Lester, Stang, PRS and 335/3/9 etc players who are perfectly happy with their guitars' 'limitations'.

Or am I, as I suspect, just getting myself needlessly upset over nothing?

thermionic

He's saying that he bought that neck with six extra banjo tuners already installed and that this is not one of his trademark bonkers hatchet jobs.

Nobody, just nobody is going to believe that.

usedtobe

thermionic said:

He's saying that he bought that neck with six extra banjo tuners already installed and that this is not one of his trademark bonkers hatchet jobs.

Nobody, just nobody is going to believe that.

This!

4114Effects

Ha, just stumbled on this thread having a late night browse... Do people actually buy these guitars? Amazing. Check out the other guitars he has for sale. There's one where he's used a thousand words to say he's replaced a humbucker and put heavier strings on. Another where he admits that the truss rod nut has stripped, but instead of replacing it with a good one, he's adjusted it and that's that. I thought I was mad for putting a tele bridge on a jazzmaster, but at least I haven't shoehorned a tele bridge pickup into a neck position humbucker slot! Legendary.

4114Effects

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/191196087466 is my favourite. Check out the string angle from the nut to the tuners... And the classy bridge repair job...

carlos

Just saw a Steinberger transtrem only at £705. 

xmrchi

You should have snapped that transtrem up!

carlos

Have seen transtrem-equipped guitars (ZT3) go for £750.

boogieman

4114Effects said:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/191196087466 is my favourite. Check out the string angle from the nut to the tuners... And the classy bridge repair job...

Ah Bodgemeister Phillips, he doesn't get any better does he? What a fetching job with the rusty old bolts through the bridge....even if anybody was mad enough to think this was a good idea, wouldn't you actually put them through matching holes at the ends of the bridge? Presumably he cut the saddle slots with a soldering iron too.
:-O

IanSavage

4114Effects said:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/191196087466 is my favourite. Check out the string angle from the nut to the tuners... And the classy bridge repair job...

Has he fitted it with electric strings too? Jesus Christ...still, at least they're 10s not 9s for enhanced bass response. What a tool.

SNAKEBITE

Heartfeltdawn said:

Oh, the irony. Looking forward to 'Luthiery for Crackheaded Idiots'. 

Fixed it for you.