Headstock shock

[Charlie Bernstein]

What's with this coal-shovel headstock?:

https://reverb.com/item/49221727-gu...9.OfeyLJLdeW_h_lc0rz2EVsmJwXXb0lpIfHQRXr0D_y8

 

[cupric]

It makes your ears bleed. At least you can't put the TRC on upside down.
That is a sad thing. No fretmarkers. I say Frankenstein! That Rosewood could be Indian imo. The neck is not a cut down Guild 12 as far as I can see.

 

[wileypickett]

I suspect it is a cut-down Guild 12, with sheets of thin laminate glued to the front and back of the headstock to hide the modifications. The rest of the neck looks original. None of the F312s I've seen -- including mine -- have fretmarkers.

 

[Nuuska]

Written in the ad : " Cracks were cleated and professionally repaired. "

 

[chazmo]

Ouch, that's tough to look at.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I suspect it is a cut-down Guild 12, with sheets of thin laminate glued to the front and back of the headstock to hide the modifications. The rest of the neck looks original. None of the F312s I've seen -- including mine -- have fretmarkers.

Hm. Johnny Winter played a twelve-string with six strings just for the wider neck.

It's a concept.

 

[dreadnut]

Basically, beat to snot.

 

[Neal]

Don’t be so quick to write this one off. Yes, the headstock is butchered, and the rosewood is badly cracked. But, as a ‘64, it has to be Brazilian, which is notoriously brittle.

As an experiment, I recently put a 14-59 six-string set on my JF-30-12, the idea being that the heavy string gauge would get that 12-string-braced top moving as it should. It sounded huge.

 

[fronobulax]

This guitar started its life as an above standard 12 string f-312 brazilian born in New Jersey (the early guild!) and it's owner along with the help of a very good luthier, decided to, since guild didn't have any other brazilian six strings, make this guitar into a fat-fingered yet precise player's dream guitar. The headstock was shortened a bit to cure the heavy headstock dip that the 12 string would have and a brazilian rosewood overlay was added, the original 12 string bridge kept and the beauty retained.

 

[walrus]

I am having trouble finding the thread, but our own killdeer converted a 12 string to a 6 string and was very pleased.

walrus

 

[jp]

If I were a luthier tasked with the conversion, I'd at least leave the guitar with some self respect by preserving the shape of the original headstock when cutting it down and re-applying the original inlay.

 

[Neal]

"I swear this is not me just trying to sell this, but the guitar actually hums. Like when you get your old chevelle revved up to nascar RPMs and you worry that something is going to break but that sound has you transfixed and on the pedal anyhow.. or how a Les Paul with Tim Shaw Pafs through a jmp that is modded just right to make that tone that makes you go " YEAH" through gritted teeth as you play as loud as your bleeding ears can stand.. this is all that without the tinnitus."

A bit of hyperbole, perhaps? Always makes me a bit wary of the seller.

 

[walrus]

"I swear this is not me just trying to sell this, but the guitar actually hums. Like when you get your old chevelle revved up to nascar RPMs and you worry that something is going to break but that sound has you transfixed and on the pedal anyhow.. or how a Les Paul with Tim Shaw Pafs through a jmp that is modded just right to make that tone that makes you go " YEAH" through gritted teeth as you play as loud as your bleeding ears can stand.. this is all that without the tinnitus."

A bit of hyperbole, perhaps? Always makes me a bit wary of the seller.

If he doesn't work in Marketing, he's wasting his talent!

walrus

 

[lungimsam]

I am amazed at what people are asking for guitars these days, trashed or not.