Trewblue Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Saw this locally(upstate NY area). thought someone might be interested! http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/msg/2155048293.html TREW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 This needs to go into the Guitar Darwin Awards thread. That guy took a perfectly beautiful $350 guitar and turned it into a $50 guitar that needs $400 worth of work. He should at least man up and finish his little "project guitar" disaster. PS, a hand sander doesn't just take off the finish, it ruins the binding and sands through the first ply. That guitar was better off in it's original condition and will never be worth anything unless he parts it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vomer Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Listing now deleted by author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trewblue Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 I think that guy might have been listening to the voices under his bed when he decided to "make it sound better by taking off the top coat of the finish" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 No problem, I saved it for posterity: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungrycat Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Eh, not as bad as I expected. Could definitely be repainted by a professional. Maybe in a Fender custom color? Sea-Foam Green Sheraton anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 He says he used "lacquer remover and a palm sander". I think he really meant paint remover, which I've tried and poly finish (not being paint or lacquer) just shrugs it off. I'm guessing after he applied the paint remover and it didn't work, he got out the sander and did his worst. It doesn't look like he took the electronics out because the poly is still on around the controls. It's hard to tell from the photos, but I would be willing to bet that his incomplete power sanding effort did some irreparable or at least difficult to repair damage. His best bet is to disassemble it, part out the harware and pickups, finish sanding it, and sell the body as a project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitmore Willy Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 That's not a project...It's a disaster! Talk about a butcher block special Sheraton. The guy should be dipped in lacquer remover, strung up by his thumbs and given 40 lashes with his guitar strings.... Without removing them from his guitar!!! Willy Nothing like sound research before a project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanFoFyan Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 that is horrendous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSure Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I think that guy might have been listening to the voices under his bed when he decided to "make it sound better by taking off the top coat of the finish" I think I know where he might have gotten this idea for sanding it down. I have an Epiphone Casino. When doing some research, found this: In 1968, when the Beatles were making the White Album, Lennon had the pick guard removed from his Casino and professionally sanded to bare wood and lightly lacquered with two thin coats of nitro-cellulose. ... His stripped guitar, is first seen in the Revolution promo film. ... George had his fitted with a Bigsby trem, removed the pickguard and also, had it sanded down later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphone_Casino I read elsewhere that Lennon did think it changed the sound. I've always wondered how true that is myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I doubt it, that Sheri was already finished in natural. Epiphone makes several verisons of the before and after refin JL Casino, and the Casino is an (almost) true hollow body guitar while the Sheraton has a block of wood down the center to reduce feedback which also significantly reduces acoustic resonance. So refinishing a Sherri is likely to have little if any effect on acoustic tone, and none on electric tone. It may have been scratched or had a lot of dings and he thought he could refinish it with a little paint stripper and a few cans of spray paint, who knows. Either way, he was probably righteously buzzed when he decided to do it, further evidenced by his eagerness to show off to the world what a total dumb@ss he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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