It's been a bit busy on the personal front these last couple of weeks but still badgering away in between.
Picked up two cheapo guitars of Ebay last week one of them is a Chinese Squier Affinity Strat. I've had Squier Bullet Strat before which was bloody awful but I really like this one and I haven't put it down. Sounds pretty good and the action is superb and apart from a couple of scratches in very good condition so an Ideal candidate for a future shonkification.
The flip side of the coin the other one (They where both for sale in the same auction) Was some really cheap plywood strat copy. It Is possibly the worst guitar I have ever seen. Sound wise typical cheap strat copy. The neck is a bit ropey with some damage to the sides but it's straight and serviceable at least but the body! Oh! the body is amazingly bad.
It looks like it has been roughly cut from B&Q plywood and then to save money dipped in really thick paint without sanding or shaping. It's lumpy as hell the inner curves in the cutaways are not smooth. you can see the relief of the plywood through the paint I really didn't think it was possible to make a guitar this badly.
The funny thing is someone was so embarrassed about it they scratched the name of the headstock. Not that anyone would be fooled even from a distance. I think it's one for the bin although I might chuck it on Ebay for a couple of quid.
I have embarked upon a project to make a guitar out of pieces of driftwood which is actually nearly completed I know I should be doing regular photo's etc but I never really think of taking pictures I would rather be getting on with it. It's constructed out of several pieces (mainly pine) all glued and dowelled it has a very tarnished tuneomatic bridge and a brass plate with a compass in it from a sextant the tailpiece is a piece of driftwood broomstick cut in half length ways. The neck is from an old strat copy which I have carved the headstock and painted to look like driftwood. It will feature just the one volume control and one old single coil. The control knob is a shell. Watch this space.
The 3 string upright Bass Is still in development I did have it on my website but thought that everything was looking a bit brown so I decided to paint it. I also need to change the control pots as the ones put on where a bit crackly and didn't seem to work very well. again watch this space.
Picked up two cheapo guitars of Ebay last week one of them is a Chinese Squier Affinity Strat. I've had Squier Bullet Strat before which was bloody awful but I really like this one and I haven't put it down. Sounds pretty good and the action is superb and apart from a couple of scratches in very good condition so an Ideal candidate for a future shonkification.
The flip side of the coin the other one (They where both for sale in the same auction) Was some really cheap plywood strat copy. It Is possibly the worst guitar I have ever seen. Sound wise typical cheap strat copy. The neck is a bit ropey with some damage to the sides but it's straight and serviceable at least but the body! Oh! the body is amazingly bad.
It looks like it has been roughly cut from B&Q plywood and then to save money dipped in really thick paint without sanding or shaping. It's lumpy as hell the inner curves in the cutaways are not smooth. you can see the relief of the plywood through the paint I really didn't think it was possible to make a guitar this badly.
The funny thing is someone was so embarrassed about it they scratched the name of the headstock. Not that anyone would be fooled even from a distance. I think it's one for the bin although I might chuck it on Ebay for a couple of quid.
I have embarked upon a project to make a guitar out of pieces of driftwood which is actually nearly completed I know I should be doing regular photo's etc but I never really think of taking pictures I would rather be getting on with it. It's constructed out of several pieces (mainly pine) all glued and dowelled it has a very tarnished tuneomatic bridge and a brass plate with a compass in it from a sextant the tailpiece is a piece of driftwood broomstick cut in half length ways. The neck is from an old strat copy which I have carved the headstock and painted to look like driftwood. It will feature just the one volume control and one old single coil. The control knob is a shell. Watch this space.
The 3 string upright Bass Is still in development I did have it on my website but thought that everything was looking a bit brown so I decided to paint it. I also need to change the control pots as the ones put on where a bit crackly and didn't seem to work very well. again watch this space.
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