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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9LfzWTaLQ
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer SS2 & T62
* Music Man Luke 1
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Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
This poor instrument is FUBARed! The crack in the lower bout travels all the way back to the trem cavity.
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It's a brutal bit of surgery! Presumably the clean looking holes going right through to the maple are the original weight relief holes.
I tried to find out more about this guitar. Apparently James Hetfield told John Reis that it previously belonged to Davy Vain (or a member of Vain the band), but I couldn't find any pictures of Vain with this LP.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/29/seasick-steve-session-musician-ramblin-man-book
If so - the years have not been kind!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Not quite as much but I might finish the job now. I love the guitar but the weight is horrible.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Read all abahdit...
https://www.chicagofretworks.com/2014/08/19/1959-fender-jazzmaster-nels-clines-watt/
One of the things that struck me though was this - anyone remember the fad for distressed jeans a few years back? How they were always tastefully ripped at the knees, but never at the crotch which is always where jeans eventually fall apart in real life?
These instruments are old, worn, and grubby. As they should be. But the disconnect between 'custom shop' guitars and these instruments that, if they belonged to your mate, you'd think twice about touching without first getting a tetanus shot, was very interesting.
I like relic guitars but the way they're done shows that a great deal of thought has gone into the aesthetic without going too far and making the guitar just nasty.
But that may be partly from too much experience having to work on guitars belonging to people who don't seem to have a strong sense of personal hygiene... which is what most of these look like.
I once got an infection from a string end on someone's guitar which required a large shot of antibiotics to deal with so it's not just an imaginary risk.
"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