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The ending is rather ambiguous, with the mention of certain e-mails....
Some real sleuth types there. I think now we should ask them to reopen the Jack the Ripper case.
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Hammer was Sutcliffe wasn't it?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It also doesn't take much sanding on a flat sawn carved top to change the look of the grain significantly. Certainly not much sanding to move features 1/2" either way
I am not saying it is or isn't without better pics of the original... But if it is its been stripped and renecked and will be a very different guitar to the one Bolan played
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I know, but there are some that aren't present at all on one guitar or the other - and yet there are shallow dings which appear to match. But which actually don't quite when you overlay the photos...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Excessive sanding would also cover all grain changes, some things move, some appear, some disappear.
Excessive sanding would be done by someone wanting to remove a bad dye job in order to try and convert this to burst specs. It would explain a lot.
I think there is a good chance the body is genuine, someone undervalued the Bolan significance and tried to convert it to a burst. Did a bad job and realised the only value left was the Bolan connection. Etc....
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Except that I think Bolan's was a converted '52 (there's really no other explanation for the extremely low bridge in the pics of him with it), and there's no evidence of a P90 rout in this one - the front corners of the hole would be missing and fitted with blocks.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Body or binding dimensions would be largely inconclusive without accurate dimensions and pics from this guitar and other matching ones from the era it came from. My experience tells me you can usually blend stuff like that in so it looks about right.
The main question. If you were renecking a guitar because it had similar grain to Bolan's and you decided it was a good candidate for a fake, why would you not stick a custom neck on? Arguments of careful fakery fall done when you look at how bad the reneck has been done
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