Heads up on a bargain- Relic Strat neck

RaymondLin

I must be missing an in joke here. Is MDPhillips infamous for stunts like this on this board?

4114Effects

Have a look at the link to the neck posted, then check out his other eBay listings ... I'll let you judge for yourself

Corvus

He is an infamous stunt.

Gassage

Has anyone checked out the butchered Ibanez 7 string? Why oh why oh why?

The bodgery that's gone on defies belief!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jackson-wide-neck-custom-Don-Lace-telecaster-pickup-Duncan-designed-humbucker-/191203847490?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c84a32d42

boogieman

I hate to say it, but that's actually one of his better ones. >:D<

breakstuff

I love the way there's always a picture of him mugging for the camera in all his listings.

The narcissistic twat.

RaymondLin

I see...so he butchers perfectly good guitars and try to make a profit?

beed84

Gassage said:

Has anyone checked out the butchered Ibanez 7 string? Why oh why oh why?

The bodgery that's gone on defies belief!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jackson-wide-neck-custom-Don-Lace-telecaster-pickup-Duncan-designed-humbucker-/191203847490?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c84a32d42

It's amazing that this isn't a one off.  Here's another that has been sacrificed.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wide-neck-48mm-nut-Jackson-six-string-for-big-hands-single-coil-humbucker-/191203857465?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c84a35439

boogieman

RaymondLin;276571" said:

I see...so he butchers perfectly good guitars and try to make a profit?

Sort of. He generally starts with cheap guitars (and a lot of them seem to have damage so they probably cost peanuts). His "speciality" is adapting 7 stringers to use 6 strings, so he ends up with wider string spacing, for people with "sausage fingers". Trouble is he does it really badly. Bridges are bodged into shape and have horrible break angles, spare tuner holes are left empty, he recuts or butchers the nut (with an angle grinder by the looks of it). It seems he'll use any old things he has lying around to finish them, so they often have odd control knobs, screws etc. He also has a weird fetish for sticking Tele pickups into the neck position of previously humbuckered guitars, for no apparent reason. These abortions are then sold on, for not very cheap prices, to people who don't know any better and are presumably duped by his sales talk.

His eBay descriptions of how he wrestles with the complexities and engineering problems of these modifications make him sound like he knows what he's doing and he calls himself a professional; he plainly isn't however. When he was offered advice on how to do things properly by various people on here, some of whom actually are professionals and others who are very talented amateurs, he ignored everyone and implied his way was actually better. Like I said, a total cock.

Ianb62

Don't want to reopen all this up again - but, I read through the ebay feedback - and there are lots of happy campers, amazing when some of the butchered creations are going for the price of a new/nearly new Squier, and more than some of the other cheaper brands- Stagg/Richmond etc - must say something about humanity, just not sure what

thermionic

What it says about humanity is "one born every minute".

boogieman

Yup it's amazing what he manages to sell. I put a perfectly decent Chinese Strat copy on here for £30, including a gig bag: no takers at all. Ended up taking it round the charity shop eventually. Yet people will pay a couple of hundred for one of those POS's. :-S

xmrchi

He actually called me a twat for questioning this neck, I said it was dangerous, especially at full tension, and asked if he would take it down, as some poor noob could get a machine Head in the eye, he wouldn't even consider the neck is anything but perfectly usable, I'm so tempted to buy it then send it back just to leave bad feedback lol

4114Effects

Sorry to resurrect an old thread - but it appears he's given up trying to sell the neck and instead he's built a guitar with it ... 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Squier-Frankenstrat-custom-coil-tapped-humbucker-and-a-partial-road-worn-look-/191255410348?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c87b5f6ac

xwolf5150

That's nasty ...

xmrchi

I promise I am not currently praying it snaps off at one of the numerous weak points on the headstock and smacks his annoying wanky face!

ICBM

Ianb62 said:

must say something about humanity, just not sure what

What Einstein said.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

xmrchi

Where do we start with this sentence....

I wanted to build a natural wood strat and this body I found has the most perfect combination of six sections of different grained mahoganies, and is capped front and rear with a veneer of ash or maple.

A capped veneer.... Lol-tastic

chrisj1602

Possibly the worst one yet.  I mean, if he really wanted to use that neck, how about plugging the holes and paint the headstock face?  And the body... I'd rather bolt a neck onto this.. 

kelvinburn

I'm sure in those photos he's looking right at us!!!!