Searcy Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 Do you have a basket case Gibson? One you butchered or bought butchers and made playable again? Post its picture and story here.
Rabs Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 Do you have a basket case Gibson? One you butchered or bought butchers and made playable again? Post its picture and story here. Im not familiar with Basket Case.. how bad would it have had to be? A bad paint job? Or totally screwed?
Searcy Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 Well, I posted this with the projects from KSDaddy in mind.
CowboyBillyBob1 Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 I would love to have a "basket case" Gibson to work on. That would be fun. I have a friend loaning me his Norlin era LP Custom that needs some work. Not a basket case by any means but he does not play it any longer due to tuning, buzzing, and intonation issues. I am sure I can bring it back to life and am looking forward to getting my hands on it. I am not competent to do any woodworking but setting it up so it plays great is something I know I can do. I won't replace the frets because it's not mine and I could perhaps screw it up. If it were mine I would love to get my hands dirty doing that kind of work.
Rabs Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 Well the only thing I have done like that was similar in the way I had to refinish it or sand it down totally but nowhere near as bad as that SG :) In my case it was a LP DC Faded bought off Ebay for £300 (well under half price).. And basically the owner before had decided to sand down the top (but leave the back, sides and neck cherry??) and put Grovers on it (which I really didnt like on this guitar).. So I knew I was gonna change the tuners but wasnt sure if I should just rub the rest down to match the natural front (which I almost did) or try and colour match the red and do it myself which I knew was really hard (it took like 2 months or something).. So this is what it looked like when I got it.. You cant really see from the pic, but it looked REALLY weird with that front and cherry red on the back (even though i kinda like the natural look too). This is what the back looks like (and still does :)) This was during the colour matching process. And I used proper the proper Nitro finish on this.. You can see it took a while to build the colour up. And this was it nearly done before the final buff up and clear lacquer... And here the Before, the Stock Photo and my finished guitar :) I am so so so so happy with this guitar I cant tell you and it feels good to have restored it to its (almost) original intended colour. Its meant to have the like banjo tuning pegs but I like the classic tombstone ones :)
Searcy Posted October 3, 2012 Author Posted October 3, 2012 Nice work Rabs. Looks fanatic. Cowboy. Be sure to post it once you have it in your hands. Here's mine that I'm starting on finally.
kaleb Posted October 3, 2012 Posted October 3, 2012 Nice work Rabs. Looks fanatic. Cowboy. Be sure to post it once you have it in your hands. Here's mine that I'm starting on finally. I bet it'll be one helluva "ripper"!!!!! Never seen a red Ripper before! That would look cool with a chrome pickguard!
Rabs Posted October 3, 2012 Posted October 3, 2012 Nice work Rabs. Looks fanatic. Cheers... and good luck with yours.. looks like in interesting one let us know how you get on. Do you have any current plans or will you just see where it takes you? :)
kaleb Posted October 3, 2012 Posted October 3, 2012 I have a basket case, but it's not a Gibson. It's my silver sparkle Gretsch Double Cut Electromatic. Sorry, don't have pics. But she has a story. I bought it at Music Villa in Bozeman, MT for $530 (or something in that ballpark) with a hardshell case in February, 2009 (on my birthday!). Completely stock. Already had some kicks around the edge of the fingerboard/front pickup from a dremol. She was a sweet guitar until I tampered with it. I took off the Bigsby (I had trouble restringing it so I took the Laurel & Hardy way out....) and attatched a bridge plate from a hardtail Squier mini that I converted into a tailpiece. As it goes, I didn't align it properly. Due to my tendencies to tinker with stuff, I also misplaced the strap buttons and the control plates on the back. That guitar is lucky it's still here. I've been planning a makeover on it. A new Bigsby, roller bridge, locking tuners, TUSQ nut, refret (with Dunlop 6100 fretwire!), new electronics, every thing. I plan on replacing the pickups, but I don't know what with. Either real Filtertrons, P-90s, mini-humbuckers, or a re-route for full size humbuckers. I was even considering making it a 3-humbucker job with DiMarzios as a nod to Ace Frehley. Now that I think about it, the guitar itself is going to be named SpaceAce, cause it fits it so well! It's far from being considered a legit Ace style guitar, but the silver sparkle paint, not to mention the triple DiMarzios if I choose to add them, will make it suitable.
Searcy Posted October 3, 2012 Author Posted October 3, 2012 Cheers... and good luck with yours.. looks like in interesting one let us know how you get on. Do you have any current plans or will you just see where it takes you? :) Yes, I have big plans. I bought the body and neck off Ebay just as you see it with the gray pick guard.I'm going to scrape off the red Krylon and spray it white. I have an NOS pick guard for it and I'm working on some new reproduction pickups for it. I was able to find an original wiring harness that I plan to use but I'm adding a 6 position switch to it so I can have two more pickup selection options that were not available on the original Ripper. I haven't decided if I'm going with black bridge and tuners of chrome. I want it to look like something Gibson might have made but didn't.
damian Posted October 4, 2012 Posted October 4, 2012 This SG is beyond repair.... I have many wrecked guitars in storage; Someday I'll sort them all out.......
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