Los Angeles
Senior Member
Sorry folks, just a teaser photo until the sun comes up Monday and I'll get some good "sunlight" photos.
Neck - perfect. I mean really perfect.
frets - clean and low (how I like them)
Electric - clean again at least judging from the 3 minutes I had it plugged in.
finish - great save one spot on the neck, which considering my style (slow, brooding, not flashy) - it will never be a bother.
But it does have a couple of issues, one of which I never really realized even though it's obvious in the for sale pictures: someone drilled the top to install a crappy tune-o-matic bridge with really crappy brass saddles. Since the guitar is drilled already, I'm tempted to do some more drilling (gasp!) and install a late 70's adjustomatic I have here. I prefer that over traditional wood archtop bridges anyway. I prefer the longer sustain and more "detailed" intonation.
Other issue: The dreaded headstock face shrink & peel. I was warned verbally about it with this guitar, but I had never seen it in person. Should be easy enough to glue it back down, but I just wasn't prepared for the horror of it face-to-face.
Otherwise, I think I just might have found a personal signature guitar. Can't wait to get some mediums on there, raise the action a bit on the low end and drop tune it.
Neck - perfect. I mean really perfect.
frets - clean and low (how I like them)
Electric - clean again at least judging from the 3 minutes I had it plugged in.
finish - great save one spot on the neck, which considering my style (slow, brooding, not flashy) - it will never be a bother.
But it does have a couple of issues, one of which I never really realized even though it's obvious in the for sale pictures: someone drilled the top to install a crappy tune-o-matic bridge with really crappy brass saddles. Since the guitar is drilled already, I'm tempted to do some more drilling (gasp!) and install a late 70's adjustomatic I have here. I prefer that over traditional wood archtop bridges anyway. I prefer the longer sustain and more "detailed" intonation.
Other issue: The dreaded headstock face shrink & peel. I was warned verbally about it with this guitar, but I had never seen it in person. Should be easy enough to glue it back down, but I just wasn't prepared for the horror of it face-to-face.
Otherwise, I think I just might have found a personal signature guitar. Can't wait to get some mediums on there, raise the action a bit on the low end and drop tune it.