The Guitar Pron Thread

[AnotherUTFan 9,781]

Congratulations CM. I'm truly happy for you.

[DougO 5,256]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

And I thought I used heavy picks.

Definitely way more than .73mm.

[Buzzrock 14,941]

Congrats CM!

[tbone_ 14,161]

That’s a great cake. Wrong pick but great cake.

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

13 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

That’s a great cake. Wrong pick but great cake.

True, but this would be a lousy groom cake:

[Gil Bang 26,020]

would have gone with one of these

[Celery Man 20,996]

Thanks y’all. Harry Potter is more of a her thing but yeah. I totally forgot about the pick cake until I saw it

 

 

[Bogeywon 2,519]

17 hours ago, DougO said:

New used pawn shop guitar day!

Couldn't pass up the deal, $60 out the door for an Epi Les Paul Standard. Maybe a future design project thing to mess with, or I'll just bang on  it for a while.

Corrosion on the bridge from somebody's sweattyass hand, but that's OK.

 

Fretboard is pretty cruddy, but I think it should clean up OK.

 

Somebody scratched a name on the back of the headstock, but it's mostly out of sight, so no biggie.

It has an 11 digit serial with no letter, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it is. But it's set neck and all seems original as far as I can tell. Electronics work fine. Strings are shot, gotta clean it all up and string it to find out what it really sounds like.

That’s a steal awesome!

[Bogeywon 2,519]

12 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Thanks y’all. Harry Potter is more of a her thing but yeah. I totally forgot about the pick cake until I saw it

 

 

Congrats

[Bogeywon 2,519]

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F312532801153

what should I bid on this?

[tbone_ 14,161]

About tree fiddy?

[the idoit 165]

Congratulations, Celery. All the best.

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Many congrats Celery!

[Deej 76,920]

Congrats, Celery.

Look forward to your future posts in the "wives" thread.

[DougO 5,256]

On 3/23/2019 at 2:07 PM, DougO said:

Fretboard is pretty cruddy, but I think it should clean up OK.

 

 

Before and after...clean up with naptha and just a little dab of liquid gold.

 

[Bogeywon 2,519]

I lost the auction on the blond tele... fuck!

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

Celery, as we have discussed many times before:

Gather inventory of her shoes and purses.  Total number, estimated cost, etc.  This will come in handy in the future when you happen to bring home a $600 guitar and she starts yacking about the cost of your hobby.

</oldguy>

[Grandioso 2,592]

This color purp is dope AF

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvKEQpXgQW2/

 

Edited March 25, 2019 by Grandioso

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

 
Before and after...clean up with naptha and just a little dab of liquid gold.
 

What’s your technique for this clean? It came out looking great.

[DougO 5,256]

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

What’s your technique for this clean? It came out looking great.

It was pretty easy. I just dabbed a microfiber cloth with the naphtha stuff and gently rubbed it with the grain all the way down the fretboard. That got most of the gook. Then I went over it lightly with a little patch of #0000 steel wool, a litter harder on the frets to get them shiny, being careful not to get bits of steel wool near the pickups. I then used a damp cloth to go over it to grab any bits of stuff and clean off any naphtha residue, and dried it with the clean part of the microfiber cloth. Finally, I dabbed a clean cloth with the tip of my index finger to the top of the bottle of Scott's liquid gold (not the spray kind) and wiped it on the fretboard, which covered most of it. I dabbed one more time when the spot on the cloth started to dry up near the high frets and went back up the board. It takes very little of the product to cover the board, you don't want it to build up to much. I lightly wiped it again to get any excess off the binding or in spaces where it can accumulate, then I set it on a stand for a couple of hours.

I have read you're not supposed to use stuff like furniture polish on guitar frets. The Liquid Gold doesn't have the waxiness of stuff like Pledge, but you still probably don't want it soaking into the wood. I would use a more guitar specific product if it were a more expensive guitar, but I think it's fine in small doses.

Edited March 25, 2019 by DougO

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Very nice result.

For the record, it’s the carnuba wax in Pledge and similar products that’s not good for your guitar.

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

On 3/23/2019 at 2:07 PM, DougO said:

New used pawn shop guitar day!

Is it common to find decent buys at pawn shops, in your experience? 

[tbone_ 14,161]

Dougo is the king of pawn shop finds.

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

9 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Dougo is the king of pawn shop finds.

Emperor.  Pawn shop kings bow before him.

[tbone_ 14,161]

Forgive me. You are correct.

 

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

Hell, I'd be fine with being the the pawn of pawn shop finds, but those places scare me.

[DougO 5,256]

1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

Is it common to find decent buys at pawn shops, in your experience? 

 

Not these days. There's mostly a bunch of junk with prices listed at near retail. And the internets has made it less likely that some good stuff slips by the pawn dealers not quite knowing that they have or what it's worth. But I keep looking once in a while, because you never know. Once in a while you find a decent deal.

 

Also, pawn shops have become dominated by corporate chains, like everything else in retail. So they don't have the pressure of having to sell stuff as much to make the books.

Edited March 25, 2019 by DougO

[Deej 76,920]

My mom lives in a rural area. Lots of old people that are passing on. She goes to all the estate sales and organizes the church donations that they sell off to raise money. She knows to send me photos of anything music related. I am waiting for that one great find.

[DougO 5,256]

Yeah, garage sales and estate sales would probably be better hunting grounds of those willing to get up early on the weekends and hit as many as possible. I never have gotten into it, maybe someday I'll give it a try. But there's still more competition than ever with people having a phone with them to look up what stuff is going for on eBay.

I have been pretty burned out on the pawn shop thing lately because it has become somewhat depressing how it's gone downhill in the last decade or so. Back when all my old friends were busy with families and stuff, hitting the pawn shops would be my Saturday entertainment. I live pretty close to Killeen, which was a great pawn shop town due to Fort Hood, but it has all kind of died off. The whole thing changed and it's really tough finding anything good.

But it's still a good way to kill some time once in a while when there's not much else to do.

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

15 hours ago, DougO said:

 

Not these days. There's mostly a bunch of junk with prices listed at near retail. And the internets has made it less likely that some good stuff slips by the pawn dealers not quite knowing that they have or what it's worth. But I keep looking once in a while, because you never know. Once in a while you find a decent deal.

OK. That's kind of how I figured it was. Thanks for addressing.

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

I’ve told stories of these guitars before but I don’t think I’ve ever posted them.

Real relic:

68 CAR Tele:








My dad bought that one when he switched from primarily R&B/Rock to Country. He said he felt forced to do it because the Tele was the sound of Country but the Strat was a far better guitar.

59 Strat:








My dad played that Strat 5 days a week, 4 hours a night back in the 60s. Very hard look to replicate well. He bought it used (virtually new) from a pawn shop in Lubbock in 1961.

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Those are safely stored away now. His main gigging instrument (and he still plays out at least one a week) is this ‘57 Hot Rod Strat. It really suits him as it has the look of a vintage Strat (which he has bonded with, understandably) but it has modern (shhh! Don’t tell him!) radius and other appointments. He thinks it’s better than the 59. That may be a bit much, but it is a very good Strat:

[tbone_ 14,161]

Love those. Damn.

My dad had a 62 strat he bought in hs. Of course he didn’t keep it.

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Upon further receive the lighting was bad. I’ll have to get better pics of the finish checking next time.

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Love those. Damn.

My dad had a 62 strat he bought in hs. Of course he didn’t keep it.

When my dad had shown enough interest in playing, my grandfather took him into Abilene to a pawn shop to get him a “real” guitar (as opposed to the Regal acoustic he learned on - a real piece of junk that’s still hanging around somewhere in my folks house). The shop man showed him a nice Gretsch. But my Dad declined and got some no name shitty electric because the Gretsch had too many knobs. It intimidated him. What might have been I suppose.

[Bogeywon 2,519]

16 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

I’ve told stories of these guitars before but I don’t think I’ve ever posted them.

Real relic:

68 CAR Tele:








My dad bought that one when he switched from primarily R&B/Rock to Country. He said he felt forced to do it because the Tele was the sound of Country but the Strat was a far better guitar.

59 Strat:








My dad played that Strat 5 days a week, 4 hours a night back in the 60s. Very hard look to replicate well. He bought it used (virtually new) from a pawn shop in Lubbock in 1961.

wow beautiful!

[AnotherUTFan 9,781]

 

 

 

When my dad had shown enough interest in playing, my grandfather took him into Abilene to a pawn shop to get him a “real” guitar (as opposed to the Regal acoustic he learned on - a real piece of junk that’s still hanging around somewhere in my folks house). The shop man showed him a nice Gretsch. But my Dad declined and got some no name shitty electric because the Gretsch had too many knobs. It intimidated him. What might have been I suppose.

 

I have that '58 Gretsch Anniversay (1st year inroduced) with a PAF Filtertron in it. He bought it used in like '63. Some of you may recall it was in shambles and I restored it and gave it back to him on his 60th birthday. Now I have it but never play it cause I absolutely hate the jumbo frets I had installed on it. I'm thinking about taking it in and having something more period correct installed.

 

 

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

That's a beauty.  Needs more knobs though.

 

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

What's the bridge p/u on that Strat, Chad?

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

What's the bridge p/u on that Strat, Chad?

DiMarzio "tone zone"

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StratVH572SB--fender-vintage-hot-rod-57-stratocaster-2-color-sunburst

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

Huh.  I figured he dropped it in.  The things Fender will do . . .

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Huh.  I figured he dropped it in.  The things Fender will do . . .

It’s my dad’s favorite thing about the guitar. I guarantee you if they’d put a full size hum bucker in there, he would’ve turned it down. He wouldn’t have been able to tell you why, but he’d just think there was something off about it. The old man is finicky about his guitars that way.

But it bears repeating: that guitar is a lot of bang for the buck. Great construction, fit and finish. Sounds great. I think I got it for about $1100 off eBay out of a shop in Arizona. I didn’t want to get a call from my someday about how he’d been mugged for his guitar coming out of a gig somewhere, so I looked for the thing closest to what he liked with a bit of upgraded stuff I thought he’d like. It definitely fit that bill and I suppose it came with some peace of mind thrown in.

[tbone_ 14,161]

The less knobs the better is sort of a life motto for me. But dang that missed Gretsch.

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

Chad, you've told this story before, but what was your Dad's band again?

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Chad, you've told this story before, but what was your Dad's band again?

He's been in a couple over the years.  The R&B band he played with back in the 60s was The Playboys.  Paul Ray (of later Austin fame) was the lead singer.  They were in Dallas at that time though.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?n=paul-ray&pid=177430876

Edited March 26, 2019 by Chad Fuck

[jimmyjazz 46,130]

I think that was it -- the Paul Ray connection sounds right.

[Buzzrock 14,941]

Those vintage Fenders, hot damn. How come no one plays them?

And that dimarzio makes that Strat look really weird to me. Like, it would bother me to play it. Can’t really explain why (hell my Strat is a HH).

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Those vintage Fenders, hot damn. How come no one plays them?

And that dimarzio makes that Strat look really weird to me. Like, it would bother me to play it. Can’t really explain why (hell my Strat is a HH).

I didn’t say no one plays them. They just don’t get outside much anymore. At some point we just figured if he’s going to go out gigging across Texas, and risk losing a Strat, better risk the RI than the vintage.

And I agree the Dimarzio looks funny. But it sounds really clean and nice.

[Foggy Notion 1,202]

Those really are some beautiful guitars, Mr. Fuck. Your daddy has nice taste. 

I've been staring at the CAR Tele all damn day. Pretty sure that was a custom color in '68. There can't be too many of those around.

If you look at the top left corner of the pickguard where it meets the side of the neck, you'll notice a little notch, like the tip of the corner is cut off. You only see that on 68 and 69 Teles. The bottom layer of the pickguard is likely pearloid. 

 

[Chad Fuck 17,776]

Those really are some beautiful guitars, Mr. Fuck. Your daddy has nice taste. 
I've been staring at the CAR Tele all damn day. Pretty sure that was a custom color in '68. There can't be too many of those around.
If you look at the top left corner of the pickguard where it meets the side of the neck, you'll notice a little notch, like the tip of the corner is cut off. You only see that on 68 and 69 Teles. The bottom layer of the pickguard is likely pearloid. 
 

I recall wondering what that notch was about years ago. Any idea what the backstory is there? Why only 68/69s? And why pearloid bottom? It looks like a standard three ply pick guard from the side.