The butcher strikes again.

Gizmo

Strangefan said:

I love how he has now changed  the company's name to Phillips cleartone "special" guitar conversions.... Certainly is more apt! 

Special kinda sums up everything about this guys "mods"...

Funkfingers

The part that mystifies me is that our hero is not working on commissioned instrument conversions. It is all speculative, in hopes of finding buyers via t’Interweb.  

Dominic

stimpsonslostson said:

Did you watch the video? You’ve GOT to watch the video. 

He’s actually a decent player. 

https://youtu.be/iMYu5a7o8WU

Yes , but he needs to work on the old vocals a bit !

thermionic

Having cornered the sausage-fingered market, he’s diversifying to cash in on the chipolata fingered.

Strangefan

octatonic said:

Strangefan said:

I can't help but like him. 

Would you buy one of his instruments?

I'd rather eat my own head. 

Deijavoo

I'm way less appalled by this than I am with certain spikey guitars.

It's cheap too, I wonder if the e strings slip off the edges.

octatonic

Strangefan said:

octatonic said:

Strangefan said:

I can't help but like him. 

Would you buy one of his instruments?

I'd rather eat my own head. 

LOL- there we go.

DefaultM

If it's for your thumb then why has he done both sides of the neck?

prlgmnr

DefaultM said:

If it's for your thumb then why has he done both sides of the neck?

Incase you have two or more thumbs.

Philtre

On the other hand, £173 is a very reasonable asking price. I'm sure he'd be flexible on the price.

breakstuff

Philtre said:

On the other hand, £173 is a very reasonable asking price. I'm sure he'd be flexible on the price.

Not as flexible as your fingers would need to be. 

DrBob

I do wonder if there’s an element of the “infinite number of monkeys” going on with Mr Phillips in as much as, if he’s left to keep trying this stuff for long enough will he eventually stumble across something brilliant ?

equalsql

Strangely, and don't larf, I think he might actually have the genesis of a good idea here, albeit badly executed. I have never used the thumb over the fretboard technique in all my 40+ years of playing. I have tried quite a few times in the past decade to use this method but my left thumb is having none of it. His concept, if properly  done 'could' possibly make it easier for me to use the technique.

Stop tittering at the back there!  

Winny_Pooh

DrBob said:

I do wonder if there’s an element of the “infinite number of monkeys” going on with Mr Phillips in as much as, if he’s left to keep trying this stuff for long enough will he eventually stumble across something brilliant ?

Yes

scrumhalf

prlgmnr said:

DefaultM said:

If it's for your thumb then why has he done both sides of the neck?

Incase you have two or more thumbs.

On the same hand? That's a new step in evolution.

I'm not much of a thumb-over-neck player (fingers are too short) but surely you wouldn't be able to slide your hand along the neck with any degree if comfort if it kept on having to negotiate the guitar equivalent of the Himalayas. 

OilCityPickups

I would imagine it makes playing a limited number of things easier in just one position at a time, As @scrumhalf ;half says, the problem will come when one tries to change position. 'Thumb-over' is the cornerstone of my own rhythm playing, and having to straighten my thumb to shift position would slow me down to a crawl.  You also  wouldn't be able to slide your thumb up maintaining pressure or damping ... lots of thumb over players do this. So all in all an ugly solution to a problem that doesn't exist. All that you really need to be super comfortable thumb-over are rolled fingerboard edges. I'm wondering how many folks there are about with minuscule thumbs and sausage fingers ....

boogieman

I can’t help thinking this all stemmed from him accidentally digging a great big gouge out of the neck, and then wondering how to still sell it. 

mikeyrob73

Genius and madness are so closely related and this chap may well be a genius 





or he is mental 

MartinBush

That video shows him with a 12-string he's converted to 6 - that's listed on Reverb.

I can't help but think that makes some sort of sense. 

What else has he done of note besides the main subject of this thread?

ICBM

MartinBush said:

That video shows him with a 12-string he's converted to 6 - that's listed on Reverb.

I can't help but think that makes some sort of sense. 

What else has he done of note besides the main subject of this thread?

His speciality is converting cheap seven-string electrics into wide-necked six-strings, with associated bodgery of the bridge, nut and sometimes machinehead holes (or one is just left empty). He also has a strange habit of replacing the neck humbucker with a cheap Tele bridge pickup. His workmanship is somewhat basic.

He seems to have a lot of positive feedback on Ebay, which is perhaps not that surprising since he does describe and photograph the results quite well, so you're not going to be under any illusions as to what you're getting.