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herb
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Joined: 09 Dec 2002
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Location: Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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Actually, it felt suicidal and jumped off the stand........  |
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AjayTele
Big Hamster
Joined: 30 Apr 2008
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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I thought it had been the victim of another French revolution... and had been to the guilettine  |
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Jack Daniels
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Joined: 29 May 2004
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Ha ha...sorry I was feeling a little frisky today.
Nah, No hair band splits and no rides on my harley...I traded a guy a bunch of recording console parts for the guitar as you saw it in that picture. There was a big round sticker on the front that was scraped off with a razor blade and it dug into the finish. The headstock was broken off twice and reglued with epoxy...which never really lasts.
I wet sanded the guitar top and repair the neck. The back of the neck is a refin. It was so severly severed that the original 3 splines I used did not hold the string tension. I ended up doing a trick SG-Lou showed me. Basically grafting a layer of wood right over the repair. I then removed the plastic headstock veneer and replaced it with 50's style holy veneer. Between the headstock repair and the veneer, I wonder if the guitars tone changed. It is a fantastic sounding guitars and competes well with any of my other 8 or 9 Les Pauls. Its got tone and sustain.
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Jack Daniels
Growing Lion
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Above is the top rubbed out and next to a 91 Studio Lite.
Some of the repairs
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Jack Daniels
Growing Lion
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Headstock to the far left is the same guitar
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Jack Daniels
Growing Lion
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Sorry for the hijack! I think its a great guitar and I am sure you will love it. I love mine and you can see it has some great company. The Studio model is the big BANG FOR THE BUCK Gibson!
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herb
Admin 2/Moderator
Joined: 09 Dec 2002
Posts: 2445
Location: Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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So, that's NOT the one that tried to commit suicide?
Great work JD! (As usual!)  |
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Troels
Wolf
Joined: 11 Apr 2003
Posts: 536
Location: Denmark
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| Jack Daniels wrote: | Sorry for the hijack! I think its a great guitar and I am sure you will love it. I love mine and you can see it has some great company. The Studio model is the big BANG FOR THE BUCK Gibson!
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As long as it's a quality hijack it's ok... and a suicidal LP is really something 
And the Studio: After another week with MY new red Studio (see BluesTalk - now with picture kindly posted by Stan) I begin to think of this guitar as a keeper. I usually find som issues within the first month or so which I can't live with - but this one seems to pass "The-Schmidt-200-Step-Quality-Check" . It does sound GREAT no matter what people generally say about chambered LP bodies. It's simply a fine instrument with a super neck and a lovely finish. |
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SAguitar
Moderator
Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Posts: 4823
Location: The Great Northwet
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Troels, I am very glad that you're loving that new Studio you got!
And JD, you fruitcake! That was some hilarious descriptions of that baby's demise!  |
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spottydog
Tadpole
Joined: 05 May 2008
Posts: 18
Location: uk
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No problem jd, guitar stories are always good, 'specially the dramatic ones.
Glad it turned out a happy ending.
I had a brand new Epiphone LP 10 years ago (£600!!)and on it's 1st evening gigging, my guitar tech knocked it off the stand and the nut came off... |
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JCP
Labrador
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Posts: 310
Location: DFW, TX
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JD, you know SG-Lou, huh? I met him on the Laney amp forum and he invited me over to the everythingsg forum. Nice guy, and an SG freak like myself. (I'm up to 8 now, just got a new VOS '61 Reissue)
Please send me some of what you were smoking when you wrote the poison/Harley story. That was my hoot of the day..
Spotty, nice score. I've got an '07 in the same color/hardware. |
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bscott
Newbie Alert
Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 4
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JD!!!! Whatever you're having for breakfast can you post the recipe??!!!! It will sure make the 2 years until I retire MUCH more interesting!!
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Jack Daniels
Growing Lion
Joined: 29 May 2004
Posts: 883
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Glad you like the story! I laught too.
I do a lot or repairs on mis-handled guitar. It never fails to amaze me how guitars get broken.
Cheers!
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