I just found my very first electric guitar!
RichCI
piano/whatever room and found my very first electric guitar in there!
I thought it had just disappeared somewhere years ago and had looked
around for it a few times with no luck until today.
This guitar is, pardon my french, really fucked up right now but I
intend to get it back into playable condition. It might cost a bit
considering:
* The bridge pickup is missing
* The rest of the wiring is a mess
* The neck has numerous dings and gouges in back of it
* The fretboard has never been conditioned
* The rear strap "button" is a thick screw held in with duct tape
(more on that in a sec)
* The fret markers are brass and hideously tarnished
* There are only three strings on it and has probably been that way
for the past 20 years
This will be worth it though as the guitar is hilarious and takes me
back...
It's a D'Aggostino solidbody "hippy sandwich" neck-through-body style
with (potentially) two humbuckers and micro switches to change pickups
and reverse the phase. There are a ton of stickers all over it and
the case including tape that says "Radioactive material," a small one
with Randy "Macho Man" Savage and Elizabeth, various mylar and orange
snippets from who-knows-where, and another mylar one that says "Show
Me Your Tits" amongst other crap. The case has two for the band
Suicidal Tendencies, a photo of The Dead Kennedys, a Hawaiian Punch
label, a Motley Crue sticker, a sticker with a picture of a fairy with
a circle and line over over it and lots of other stuff. It's all the
sort of "design" that only a teenage could come up with and it's funny
and great!
I'm so stoked and can't wait to get some cash together to get it back
into playable condition!
Lamneth
"RichCI" <ric...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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That's sweet Rich! Sounds like what I woulda put on my guitar and case back
then. I loved ST and wrestling in those days..haha can't stand wrestling
now.
I wish I had half the stuff I've owned at one time. I don't even remember
what my first electric was. I think it was a Cort Strat copy that I bought
for like $50.00. I know that I once had a white Explorer copy that had built
in effects with little buttons to turn them on and off.
Great find Rich!! Good Luck with the Resto!!
EF in FLA
> Me Your Tits" amongst other crap.
LOL. Did the sticker work?
ef
Sonny
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Sonny
prs geek
Well, I'd rather have my first car back.. A '68 Mustang 289... ;-)
But congrats Rich! That's kinda' cool.
Jeff
Squier
Was there a black light in the same closet or a lava lamp ?
My dad still has these ;)
Dr. Zontar
> It's a D'Aggostino solidbody "hippy sandwich" neck-through-body style
> with (potentially) two humbuckers and micro switches to change pickups
> and reverse the phase.
Sounds cool. My first guitar was a $50 "Checkmate" (made by Tiesco).
It had one crappy single coil pickup, a non-adjustable bridge, and
tuners that never stayed in tune. I still have the pickup.
- Rich
Squier
RichL
Wish I could locate mine! Old beat-up archtop acoustic that my dad bought
for me; I had installed a pair of DeArmond pups on it, controls, jack etc.
Soon after I bought my first Ric, the archtop got stolen when I was on a gig
(back in '65). That was one sweet sounding guitar! Terrible feedback
though. I'd still love to have it.
prs geek
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>> prs geek <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>> Well, I'd rather have my first car back.. A '68 Mustang 289... ;-)
>>
>> But congrats Rich! That's kinda' cool.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>
> those are classics now! very cool car.
> was it the convertible ?
No... But I bought it with all my own $$$ in '75. I was SO proud of that
car. It helped garner my first real date...
Jeff
RichCI
> "EF in FLA" <efri...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1192895360....@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...>> snippets from who-knows-where, and another mylar one that says "Show
> >> Me Your Tits" amongst other crap.
>
> > LOL. Did the sticker work?
>
> > ef
>
> Those stickers never worked right, they were always intermittent ;-)
> Sonny
Heh! After the shows, it sometimes seemed to work. ;)
RichCI
It's not *that* old!
RichCI
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:02:35 -0000, RichCI <ric...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I was at my parent's place looking in the closet of their computer/
> >piano/whatever room and found my very first electric guitar in there!
>
>
> my first guitar was an acoustic my guitar instructor nicknamed
> Boris... because he said it would give Frankenstein sore fingers.
I'll have to take it to my girlfriend's place and use her digital
camera. I don't even own a regular camera. The guitar is interesting
looking, to say the least!
It was probably once a pretty good guitar. I remember my parents
buying it for me when I was a teenager and they paid $400 for it back
in the early 80's which is pretty expensive in today's dollars. I
fully intend to leave all the stickers on it even though it'd be a
pretty good looking guitar without all that stuff on it.