Why we can't have nice things.

[AcornHouse]

Guitar repair; not for everyone.
https://m.imgur.com/a/PxgS7

 

[geoguy]

Yikes.

 

[wileypickett]

Wonderful!

 

[Neal]

An obvious failure in human engineering.

 

[5thumbs]

Wow. Some of those were very, uh, creative.

 

[davismanLV]

I wish I'd had a video of my face as I scrolled down..... good LORD!!

 

[txbumper57]

Reminds me of the age old saying "If we can't fix it, we can BLEEP it up bad enough to where you have to buy a new one!" Some of that stuff is down right frightening!

 

[sailingshoes72]

That is a Horror Show! However, I do like the third to last mod-job, where the "technician" used everyday, household light switches to toggle between pickups... very resourceful.

sailingshoes

 

[JohnW63]

I really need to know the " What were you attempting to do !??? " answers. Or..." How much beer was involved before you got out the saw ? "

 

[silverfox103]

Those were so bad, I couldn't finish watching.

 

[GAD]

Those made me sad. I need to go play my beautiful Nightbird to feel better.

 

[AcornHouse]

The bar code strip looks like the theft protector you find in DVD cases. Can't figure out what it's being used for. I bet those switches are real easy to select during a performance.

 

[poser]

The ones slathered with gobs of epoxy reminded my of something I might have done as a teenager. I thought epoxy would fix anything. :stupid:

 

[marcellis]

I think it's sacrilige to cut into a Jazzmaster. He may have been trying to fix intonation problems w/the stock bridge though by moving the whole thing up.

2nd Strat looks about right. Marshall of Deadwood badge and on the lower bout, the switch a mark for every bar
patron he hit over the head with it. That much pain and suffering justifies a couple of extra pick-ups.

Love the bass w/the light switches. Great idea.

 

[NEONMOONY]

When steampunk goes bad!

 

[walrus]

I was laughing out loud at some of them! And others took me awhile to figure out what the heck was going on - in a tragic comedy sort of way, I loved all of them!

walrus

 

[Aristocrater]

My buddies early Telecaster (I think it is from 1952). He paid $400 for it about 10 years ago, one of the pick-ups is non-original, but check out the thermometer case!