ksdaddy Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I can't even find the words to comment. Not for weak stomachs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I almost fell outta my chair when I saw that. nails for bridge pins? holy crap. It should be illegal to treat any guitar so badly. the back looks like a weird salmon pink color. I christen thee the anti christ of guitars I'm gonna go throw up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Well, since they went to Lowe's or Home Depot for the plywood for the top, why not pick up a handful of wood screws for the pins? Makes perfect sense to me. "Weighs about twice as much a a typical Gibson jumbo would". Yep. 3/4" CDX plywood has that effect. There's a Martin DXM on ebay that's missing a back. Wonder if this guy has any left of that sheet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannusguy Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! OMG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buc McMaster Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 But hey - it's only $10.00! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevef Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I can't even find the words to comment. Not for weak stomachs You wouldn't have to sell too many violins to pick up this beauty.. I'm kinda' surprised you're not jumping at the challenge.. If nothing else you'd get 6 pretty good phillips head screws! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchdogg Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Pre Holloween "Frankenstien" special? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rscott4079 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 All things considered though, the Grover Tuners are nice and probably worth a $100 bucks, and the Dearmond pickup probably another $150 or so. Heck, the neck might even be salvagable. And, noting the OP, I'm going to guess KS already has a bid in..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajsc Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Speaking of bridge pins............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modac Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 It's got Mojo.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajsc Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 It's got Mojo.... Willie Nelson would be proud of this guitar!! :D/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Player Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Who would have thought that for a few pennies I could have purchased 6 stainless steel phillips head bridge pins! Heck for a dime I could likely buy 6 "Brass" bridge screws!!! Bob Colosi better watch out as ACE Hardware could be putting him outta bidnez!!!! ](*,) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I was just about to bid, but just can't get over the overspray (over brush) of the back paint on the headstock. Well.. that and the sloppy bondo work. I think my mom had a left over quart can of that back color after a remodel job in the 1970's. She musta sold it on a garage sale. Yish... " It is able to be tuned but don't expect to much with this one." Not sure if that is false advertising or not... I'd say anything can be tuned. But tuned to something in on a chromatic scale is whole 'nother thing entire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Willie Nelson would be proud of this guitar!!=P~/ Better not hope Willie don't hear that. He'll send his drummer, Paul English, to 'collect.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Who would have thought that for a few pennies I could have purchased 6 stainless steel phillips head bridge pins! Heck for a dime I could likely buy 6 "Brass" bridge screws!!! Bob Colosi better watch out as ACE Hardware could be putting him outta bidnez!!!! '](*,) Oh Bruddah! Now the bridge pin minutiae discussers will now be comparing, materials, plated/unplated/brass/stainless as well as head shape, slot type and screw pitch.... not to mention length! WILL IT EVER END????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred_Engr Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Frankenguitar LIVES - Man that is butt ugly, possibly a two bagger. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanishoaknc Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Now that is a Sad, sad Guitar / What and Why would a person do that. / No words for THAT! ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Frankenguitar LIVES - Man that is butt ugly' date=' possibly a two bagger. Fred[/quote'] That's what I was thinking. It looks like a cross between Batman and Frankenstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertjohn Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 That's what I was thinking. It looks like a cross between Batman and Frankenstein. Let's call it Arnie then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 ksdaddy - - is that frickin' bondo i see around the neck for filler?!? holy crap, the guy that worked on that is a major fruit loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 is that frickin' bondo i see around the neck for filler?!? Probably. Hard to say whether they actually removed the neck or fingerboard when they replaced the top. I'm thinking they probably just chiseled the remnant of the original top away from the fingerboard and then just cut the plywood to go around it. This is one of those guitars that is not worth the effort but would be a fun challenge anyway. Not that I would know anything about that..... Well, maybe once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I really admire your handiwork, Scott. You really do have the ability to conjur Lazarus-like resurrections for potentially great instruments that would otherwise be headed for the dump. What do you do with the instruments you work on and finish? Do you collect them, or move them on? I'd love to own a KSDaddy special one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted September 17, 2009 Author Share Posted September 17, 2009 They mostly collect dust. Sometimes they go away on ebay. I'm shifting away from selling any guitars unless I hate them (which is subjective at best and has little bearing on whether it's a good guitar or not). I've sold guitars in the past and later wished I still had them. Probably 'wrong' hazy memories convincing myself I really liked them and shouldn't have sold them, but the feeling remains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I've sold guitars in the past and later wished I still had them. Haven't we all been there...My greatest regret was parting with an incredible Gibson LP Jr Special DC, it was just an brilliant guitar. I traded it away to get a LP Standard, which was also great, but that Jr really plays on my mind, 10 yrs later. I've owned and sold two J45s (both out of financial necessity, unfortunately), and I miss both bitterly. Although, having said that, my last J45 now belongs to my producer Steve, who loves it, and it gets played by hundreds of great musicians in his studio every year. The previous one went to the nephew of a forum member, Sitric, who e-mailed me a few months back telling me how he still loved the guitar to bits and plays it every day. So, happy days...but I still long for another great J45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 It's baa-aack! Ebay junk du jour relisted for probably many reasons It "SOLD" (wink wink nudge nudge say no more) for $499 last month and yet it's back. Either the bidder sobered up or the shill/second chance offer fell through. Oops, did I say shill? I meant to say someone put in a phony bid to drive the price up with no intention of buying it and then once the legit high bidder was outbid and the auction ended, the seller would wait a couple days and then offer a sob story and a second chance offer to the next bidder down the list, knowing they had milked him of the maximum proxy bid he was willing to enter. Hypothetically of course. Not saying that happened here. Sorry, I didn't mean to say shill. That has a negative connotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.