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What's your secret instrument?


Stub Mandrel
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Back in the early 90s I found a no-name neck in a skip.

I bought loads of cheap bits my brother gave me his cheap Floyd Rose knock off. I made a super-heavy rough as a badgers bum 'explorer-ish' body from two layers of 3/4" play.

Fast forward to this year, got a cheap unfinished strat body off ebay (probably made from balsa wood), got a jack plate and a sheet of scratchplate material.

Body came up nice with a sprayed on satin finish, but it was so soft i had to paint with 'diamond hard' varnish so it's a 'deep grain' finish -ah well!

Definitely not durable enough to gig but those cheap 80s 'buckers growl! Learnt a lot and might have a go at making a decent guitar or bass one day.

What's the dark secret in your collection 🙂

Original body on right of first pic, other pics the 'new' version....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Bassassin said:

It's no secret, but in the early 80s I accidentally murdered my very first guitar, a Columbus SG copy.

Undeterred, I murdered it some more until it looked like this:

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And it still looks like that now. 

That's exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to see!

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