re: #230 makeitstop

Dude. That’s just wrong. I’ll bet it played pretty nicely, despite the mangling.

A guy on the TDPRI Tele forum posted a ‘68 Tele that someone did the same thing to - took a belt sander and made his own ‘contours.’ His luthier actually cut away the contours and grafted on new wood and was able to get it back into (literally) original shape.

But I can understand it, I guess. Back before the vintage market really took off, they were just ‘old guitars’ that you could buy for nothing. I had a ‘61 Strat that I did horrible things to - I actually took a hammer and chisel to it to fit a humbucker in.

I wish I had that Strat. Not a single Strat neck I’ve played since that one has even come close.

One of my favorite bands back in the day was The Only Ones whose lead singer was asked if drugs influenced the sound of the band. He said, ‘yeah, I carved out a place in the back of my guitar where I could stash heroin and cover it with a plate; that hollow place changed the sound of my guitar.’