Post by alexkirtley on Aug 30, 2015 1:22:31 GMT
I am currently making unusual guitars for fun, as a result I am buying up broken guitars to use for parts.
The other day I got a job lot of guitars (3 geetars, 1 neck) for £20, sight unseen.
The intention being to strip them down for parts, the bottom guitar had a disintegrating mdf body (eww) so that got pulled apart in no time.
The intention with the middle guitar is for it to become one half of a double neck guitar, currently in progress
But the top guitar seemed cool, I liked the shape, I assumed it was homemade but I fixed it up, someone had really been at it, not really knowing what they were doing, which was evident because of the 5 way switch in a guitar with 2 pickups, the non original neck and the fact it was wired up in a way so that it really didn't work.
I pulled the insides all apart, got rid of the selector switch and tone pot, instead I set it up with 2 volume controls, one for each pickup, strung it up and it sounded very good!
Yesterday I did some research on it and discovered that what I thought was a homemade guitar was in fact a Fender Bullet from the early 80's, very surprised, especially since it came from a job lot of broken guitars.
Being one of 4 items essentially makes this a five pound fender, very chuffed
The other day I got a job lot of guitars (3 geetars, 1 neck) for £20, sight unseen.
The intention being to strip them down for parts, the bottom guitar had a disintegrating mdf body (eww) so that got pulled apart in no time.
The intention with the middle guitar is for it to become one half of a double neck guitar, currently in progress
But the top guitar seemed cool, I liked the shape, I assumed it was homemade but I fixed it up, someone had really been at it, not really knowing what they were doing, which was evident because of the 5 way switch in a guitar with 2 pickups, the non original neck and the fact it was wired up in a way so that it really didn't work.
I pulled the insides all apart, got rid of the selector switch and tone pot, instead I set it up with 2 volume controls, one for each pickup, strung it up and it sounded very good!
Yesterday I did some research on it and discovered that what I thought was a homemade guitar was in fact a Fender Bullet from the early 80's, very surprised, especially since it came from a job lot of broken guitars.
Being one of 4 items essentially makes this a five pound fender, very chuffed
Jo whoever he is.
