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Jasaoke
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About a year ago I bought a used Epiphone Dot. It quickly became my go-to guitar (turns out I'm a semi-hollow body kind of guy, and I've always been a sucker for a set neck)
Early this winter I noticed a slight crack in the finish on the back of the neck; the painful downside of a gig bag, I suppose. Well, I tried to ignore the problem but it slowly got worse, to the point where something had to be done. I sanded off the area and while exploring the wound, the head came off of the neck entirely. It was a pretty ugly horeshoe-shaped crack that just barely left the nut intact on the end of the fretboard. So I figured "This can't really get any worse" and decided to have my way with a guitar that I already loved.
I (sort of) had a plan for the thing, but I wasn't going to get upset over a guitar that was already useless. I glued the head back on and played it for a week or so to see if it would hold, and it did. So I stripped out the hardware and sanded the entire thing down to bare wood. The hardware was brushed down with a wire wheel in a drill and emery cloth, and I took the sheen off of the pickguard and other plastic with 600 grit sandpaper, leaving a flat finish to anything that couldn't be otherwise distressed.
Then I took several different torches and I pyrography iron to my favorite guitar and finished it in satin. It ain't "pretty" but I dig it.
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tornandfrayed
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| Posted: Monday Apr 15, 2013 |
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Dude that is awesome! Great job, very nice looking, unique, guitar!
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Jasaoke
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| Posted: Monday Apr 15, 2013 |
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| Thanks! I'm not convinced that it looks "better" than before, but at least it was fun. And it works, too! |
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bassist_25
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| Posted: Monday Apr 15, 2013 |
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I dig it! There's something about personalizing a guitar, even if the end result isn't the same as a really fancy finish or woodgrain. My Number 1 has things carved right into the back of the body from my own hand. I recently saw a video on YouTube of Dweezil Zappa showing a Strat that his father had recieved from Jimi Hendrix. It wasn't pretty, but it just had some serious mojo.
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Merge
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| Posted: Monday Apr 15, 2013 |
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| bassist_25 wrote: | | I dig it! There's something about personalizing a guitar, even if the end result isn't the same as a really fancy finish or woodgrain. My Number 1 has things carved right into the back of the body from my own hand. I recently saw a video on YouTube of Dweezil Zappa showing a Strat that his father had recieved from Jimi Hendrix. It wasn't pretty, but it just had some serious mojo. |
I think the Strat that you're referring to is the one that Hendrix set on fire on stage. It definitely has some character.
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bassist_25
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Yeah, it had definitely been lit on fire. It also had gone through about four or five different necks, IIRC.
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alfred
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 17, 2013 |
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i heard that hendrix took someone else's guitar and set it on fire.
don't know if that's true or not? |
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Colton
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 17, 2013 |
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| alfred wrote: | i heard that hendrix took someone else's guitar and set it on fire.
don't know if that's true or not? |
I did that once.
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ToonaRockGuy
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| Posted: Thursday Apr 18, 2013 |
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Me too. His name was Felix.
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