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.

I know I played guitars in Philly pawn shops in the early 70’s that neither you or I could afford now. LOT’S of them.
They called the Les Paul the fretless wonder and it lived up to that. Weighed a ton. Top split on it too. It was my one guitar for 20 some years. I had my 66 Pro Reverb with a Univox Superfuzz (look up that price). It killed. Got an almost octavia effect up the neck. With all the clean headroom in the PR, it never got muddy.
I remember shopping for a Strat in the mid 70’s and every one I picked up the frets were not dressed. I was disgusted. Then I go to a guitar show and see mid 70’s Strats selling for 10 grand….or more…Closet Classic.
The 50’ and 60’s guitars had magic in them. I had a 60’s something SG that the neck cracked at the heel, and I didn’t know any better and let it go cheap.