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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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Sold it to @Adam_MD on this very forum. Whether it's still with him I have no idea. Whoever has it now I hope they love it cos it was absolutely wonderful.
1988 Fender Custom Shop 40th Anniversary Telecaster. Number 40 of 300. First Custom Shop Guitar I ever saw - in fact I’m not sure I’d even heard of the Custom Shop at this point. It was the first series Guitar they made. I unboxed when it arrived at the shop, played it to death for about 5 years. Sold when I became very close to bankrupt.
It has turned up a couple of times: I sold it in Edinburgh but next sighting about a decade later was in Poole (eBay) I couldn’t afford it or talk the seller down enough so off it went. Turned up again in Sussex but was already sold before I was aware. Interestingly it was described as hardly used and had a certificate of authenticity (which it did not have when it was new!). Definitely the same guitar - I knew it intimately! It also sold for silly low money.
I pray for for another shot at it but even if it does turn up now I suspect I would not be able to afford it (times change!).
PRS Standard 24 from 1990. Sold it in 2008 I think and some one in Netherlands has that one. I did try and buy it back but unfortunately nothing came of it. Again sold because I needed the money.
Ibanez UV7SBK. The rarest of all the Universe models. Traded it to some one who used to play in Cradle of Filth. He actually owned the guitar 10 years previous to getting it back again. But once again it was sent off because I needed the cash.
Now I no longer sell guitars to pay bills etc but let's see how that stands in the months/years ahead now.
In the very longest shot it's out there it is a Rickenbacker 330, Fireglo serial C8 8881. Here's some evidence, rubbish pic but one of the few I have - think it's 1996 so go easy
https://imgur.com/a/9aheZVJ
Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com
Nice guitars, you'd need to pay £3k plus for one I'd guess now (or rather before Covid-19). Good luck.
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/163499/can-you-please-help-me-find-prs-se-custom-24-floyd#latest
I’ve done quite a few of them - they always sell very easily in the £150-£250 range, mostly to people who had one originally! The price reflects the work put in, not the inherent value - you see people trying to get the same for unimproved ones, which is silly.
The only really insurmountable issue is if the frets are badly fitted, which some of them were - a refret makes the job uneconomical, although if you do it yourself you could just ignore the cost.
"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
I do remember the frets being quite bad on mine. Likewise the plastic buttons on the machine heads had started working loose from the shafts, but the gears also had a lot of slop in them. I presumed it had had quite a hard life before I bought it, but then they were cheaply made too. My biggest bugbear was the placement of the pick up switches... get a bit too enthusiastic and it was far too easy to knock them both to the off position, inevitably followed by deathly silence. I did that at my first big gig in front of 300 people and nearly died of shame before I figured out what had happened.
The 88 prs custom in this pic was my back up guitar for my 86 standard. I never bonded with it so I swapped for the twin neck Ibanez.
The Ibanez custom shop 6-12 twin neck was gorgeous looking but an absolute bitch to play. It never sat right on the strap and was so heavy... in the end I traded it for an 87 prs custom and a Gibson Chet Atkins solid acoustic that I still own.
I wish I still had the Ibanez coz I've never seen another and its extremely rare.
The Carvin V belonged to a friend of mine who bought it from a famous guitarist while he was in the states.
Nice guitar to play but a tad too metal for me and it had a Kahler trem which I hated.
I wonder where they are these days as all three were pretty distinctive
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