Other Avenues of Guitar
Other Avenues of Guitar
Before I got carried away with the Fake Guitars I was going to write about getting into pawn shop guitars. There are a ton of guitars from the eighties and nineties that are not in style right now. I bought two a couple months ago. One for seventy-five and one for fifty. All they needed was adjustments to the necks. Of coarse one was a cheap guitar. The other better than cheap. But just in parts I had saved myself around a hundred fifty from one guitar. After I plugged them in I was surprised at their tone. So I worked on the neck action and intonation. Hey if I snapped a neck big deal. Also this is how all the real luthiers started. These guitars now are shred monsters and I don't shred. Extremely flat and fast necks. The pick ups work for a guitar I am going to resell for a hundred fifty and the other I might keep for a "Stunt" guitar. Other wise I could sell it for two fifty or a little more. The trick I found with adjusting necks on cheaper guitars is wait a day and check them again. At the least what I was doing thru the years was buying these and learning. Then making a modest profit and back to the pawn shop for another. Reinvesting. Selling the guitars I was not ripping anyone off at that price.
So, this is another way to understand guitars and how they work. After doing these kinds of tricks for so long. It is not rare to for someone to hand me a five to ten thousand dollar guitar and say "check it out" and leave it with me. This is the highest complement I can get in my mind. I don't know if they would be so trusting if they knew I learn this stuff from an idea at a pawn shop.
I will add pictures of both guitars this weekend. I am getting a lot of responses and I am on here more than I thought I would be. I answer all responses and will add a page of them this weekend also.
First Picture is the $100 Stunt Guitar
Second is the $50 Starter Stunt Guitar
Behind on top a Bassman head from 67-68.
It has the serial number of a black face Bassman.
Same with the "67-68 Band Master" below it with original cab.
That was my main amp for twenty years. I bought it
brand new. For the record the first silver face Fender amps that came out
had all the same parts as the "Blackface's". Fender still had a warehouse
full of blackface parts the first year of the silver face models. The
Band-Master is a bullet proof tone machine.
Same with the baseman. Hell, I dropped it once. Still works
perfect. They are for recording only now. They are worth a small fortune.
I bought the "Bandmaster" in 1967 for $282 Bucks. {yes, again I bought it brand new} I think the head alone now is worth a thousand bucks. Who would have thought. I blew the original speakers. We didn't have effects back then or very little. So, we turned these up to "Eleven" to get the distortion. I replaced them with 2- 12" E.V.'s. here we go--I paid thirty bucks a piece for them "Way Back When". BTW they are Bullet proof in my opinion and after what I put them thru.
Rondo Music
I have been in touch with the owner. I am totally impressed with the quality and especially the prices. Check for the link on the links page and judge for yourselves. This again was referred by a CAG member whom own's a few and say's there every bit worth the money. There is a lot to look at. Again these can be up graded to what your musical taste wants. Lollar pickups told me he had experimented on Rhondo guitars for this very reason.
