The wide neck guitar criminal!

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this thread needs to die now - it is a pretty pathetic show from the forum tbh - a bunch of grown men taking potshots at a really easy target from behind their keyboards. certainly not the kind of thing I visit this place to see

jd0272

frankus said:

I didnt ask you, did I?

That, Frank, is needlessly, and unnecessarily confrontational on an 'open' forum. Not that I mind. Not that you give a fck. Which saddens me. 

Adam_MD

If you google Phillips cleartone conversions you get 2 fretboard threads about him, one about raping a guitar from sevenstring.org and another which contains this

Hi Rycky,
I am posting one off tomorrow that fetched just £192 in auction... quite disappointed with that as it was my best one so far and it looked the mutt's nuts and I hoped for around £300; but it was in profit so I learn then move on.

I am not a guitar builder but more of a master bodger really... grand master even!
I make guitars for guys with big hands and fingers; or with smaller hands but wanting extra space for specific finger techniques etc.

Cheers,
Mark............
Phillips Cleartone Guitars



I'm done now. I've wasted way too much time on this guy. It was funny and shocking when his antics were first posted but I'd rather talk about guitars than waste more time talking about a 'grand master bodger'.

randomhandclaps

Adam_MD said:

I'm done now. I've wasted way too much time on this guy. It was funny and shocking when his antics were first posted but I'd rather talk about guitars than waste more time talking about a 'grand master bodger'.

Precisely my view at this point.

jd0272

I'm out of booze so going to bed. Poor planning. Tsk. 

Lukeage

With @Adam_MD and @randomhandclaps on this one... I miss the MR goodwill/vibe. 

Bidley

Ah, so this is where everyone goes to get a boost on their fret score!

kossofffan

And this lovely headstock.  Pure class. 

As someone else commented, this looks like Shane MacGowan's teeth. 

These photo's have set me up for the giggles all day, many thanks!

OilCityPickups

Okay, I think enough electrons have been wasted on this thread. Something good is going to come out of it: @funstuie is sending me his Avon Les Paul copy for me to improve and 'mod' into something that will be sold for forum funds. I will limit my tools to those easily found by beginners, and try and create something that might conceivably be have been done by me in the late seventies. I was working as the tech in a guitar shop then, and regularly was called upon to 'hotrod' Columbus, Avon, Antoria etc etc. It usually started with a pair of  of 'Uncle Larry's' finest in the pickup compartments ... so this lucky beast will get one of my prototype 70s style distortion humbuckers in bridge duty ... and perhaps something of a PAF disposition in the neck.
Anyway I will start a thread for it when it arrives and although it may take a while, as I will have to fit the work in around making pickups, you will get a look in over my shoulder so to speak, as I try to work out what I've gotten myself into!

WezV

TheGuitarWeasel said:

Okay, I think enough electrons have been wasted on this thread. Something good is going to come out of it: @funstuie is sending me his Avon Les Paul copy for me to improve and 'mod' into something that will be sold for forum funds. I will limit my tools to those easily found by beginners, and try and create something that might conceivably be have been done by me in the late seventies. I was working as the tech in a guitar shop then, and regularly was called upon to 'hotrod' Columbus, Avon, Antoria etc etc. It usually started with a pair of  of 'Uncle Larry's' finest in the pickup compartments ... so this lucky beast will get one of my prototype 70s style distortion humbuckers in bridge duty ... and perhaps something of a PAF disposition in the neck.
Anyway I will start a thread for it when it arrives and although it may take a while, as I will have to fit the work in around making pickups, you will get a look in over my shoulder so to speak, as I try to work out what I've gotten myself into!

now that is an absolutely awesome idea 

octatonic

TheGuitarWeasel said:

Okay, I think enough electrons have been wasted on this thread. Something good is going to come out of it: @funstuie is sending me his Avon Les Paul copy for me to improve and 'mod' into something that will be sold for forum funds. I will limit my tools to those easily found by beginners, and try and create something that might conceivably be have been done by me in the late seventies. I was working as the tech in a guitar shop then, and regularly was called upon to 'hotrod' Columbus, Avon, Antoria etc etc. It usually started with a pair of  of 'Uncle Larry's' finest in the pickup compartments ... so this lucky beast will get one of my prototype 70s style distortion humbuckers in bridge duty ... and perhaps something of a PAF disposition in the neck.
Anyway I will start a thread for it when it arrives and although it may take a while, as I will have to fit the work in around making pickups, you will get a look in over my shoulder so to speak, as I try to work out what I've gotten myself into!

Bravo.

OilCityPickups

WezV said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

Okay, I think enough electrons have been wasted on this thread. Something good is going to come out of it: @funstuie is sending me his Avon Les Paul copy for me to improve and 'mod' into something that will be sold for forum funds. I will limit my tools to those easily found by beginners, and try and create something that might conceivably be have been done by me in the late seventies. I was working as the tech in a guitar shop then, and regularly was called upon to 'hotrod' Columbus, Avon, Antoria etc etc. It usually started with a pair of  of 'Uncle Larry's' finest in the pickup compartments ... so this lucky beast will get one of my prototype 70s style distortion humbuckers in bridge duty ... and perhaps something of a PAF disposition in the neck.
Anyway I will start a thread for it when it arrives and although it may take a while, as I will have to fit the work in around making pickups, you will get a look in over my shoulder so to speak, as I try to work out what I've gotten myself into!

now that is an absolutely awesome idea 

I realise that technically I'm not a luthier ... though I've built plenty of guitars from scratch in the past. But  as a pickup winder or bobineuse to use a suitably impressive, french derived title, I do have the requisite skill set :-)

I rather like 'bobineuse' I may use that in future.

Iamnobody

I love a happy ending...

ESchap

TheGuitarWeasel said:

 

I realise that technically I'm not a luthier ... though I've built plenty of guitars from scratch in the past. But  as a pickup winder or bobineuse to use a suitably impressive, french derived title, I do have the requisite skill set :-)

I rather like 'bobineuse' I may use that in future.

Unless you've had a sex change, should really be bobineur  

OilCityPickups

ESchap said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

 

I realise that technically I'm not a luthier ... though I've built plenty of guitars from scratch in the past. But  as a pickup winder or bobineuse to use a suitably impressive, french derived title, I do have the requisite skill set :-)

I rather like 'bobineuse' I may use that in future.

Unless you've had a sex change, should really be bobineur  

Quite right ... long time since french at school
Mind you with all the belts and spinning gubbins on 'Gloria' my winding machine ... I do regularly risk accidental body modification!

ESchap

TheGuitarWeasel said:

ESchap said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

 

I realise that technically I'm not a luthier ... though I've built plenty of guitars from scratch in the past. But  as a pickup winder or bobineuse to use a suitably impressive, french derived title, I do have the requisite skill set :-)

I rather like 'bobineuse' I may use that in future.

Unless you've had a sex change, should really be bobineur  

Quite right ... long time since french at school
Mind you with all the belts and spinning gubbins on 'Gloria' my winding machine ... I do regularly risk accidental body modification!

Long-time since French at school for me too.  But depending on your proclivities, it's definitely useful to know the difference when attending a massage parlour ....  err ... a friend told me ... :-O

streethawk

Jim54 said:

I'd like to know what the bejesus is going on here?  Could be the picture next to the definition of 'botch-job' in the dictionary.

And this lovely headstock.  Pure class. 

As someone else commented, this looks like Shane MacGowan's teeth. 

What's the excuse for this botch-jobed-ness?

Disgraceful work, and disgraceful attitude (I'm also going with Dunning Kruger), and a shame poor naive people are losing money (and probably the will to learn how to play guitar) to this delusional cowboy.

Nurse, the screens!

underdog

TheGuitarWeasel;204683" said:

Okay, I think enough electrons have been wasted on this thread. Something good is going to come out of it: @funstuie is sending me his Avon Les Paul copy for me to improve and 'mod' into something that will be sold for forum funds. I will limit my tools to those easily found by beginners, and try and create something that might conceivably be have been done by me in the late seventies. I was working as the tech in a guitar shop then, and regularly was called upon to 'hotrod' Columbus, Avon, Antoria etc etc. It usually started with a pair of  of 'Uncle Larry's' finest in the pickup compartments ... so this lucky beast will get one of my prototype 70s style distortion humbuckers in bridge duty ... and perhaps something of a PAF disposition in the neck.

Anyway I will start a thread for it when it arrives and although it may take a while, as I will have to fit the work in around making pickups, you will get a look in over my shoulder so to speak, as I try to work out what I've gotten myself into!

Do the decent thing and wedge a Tele pup in it

JookyChap

Great thing to do @funstuie and @TheGuitarWeasel, but I quite agree, it 'has' to have the traditionally placed Tele pickup at the neck

chrispy108

You should make it a 5 string....