I'm hoping this is a joke...

IvisonGuitars

....or vintage guitar dealer rhetoric reached a whole new level.... 

Mega Rare and Desirable 'Reverse Cig Burn' anyone.....

impmann

What they are trying to give the impression of is that the guitar (or neck at least) has been used by a leftie, and a ciggie was left in the headstock, like Hendrix used to do.

But I agree it looks gash.

Sassafras

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Other whats?

IvisonGuitars

impmann said:

What they are trying to give the impression of is that the guitar (or neck at least) has been used by a leftie, and a ciggie was left in the headstock, like Hendrix used to do.

But I agree it looks gash.

Hence the #Hendrix hashtag....

Modulus_Amps

I can do that with a lighter quick enough, I wonder if it would make my mex strat worth a real USA model in a trade??

richardhomer

@miserneil - given your vintage knowledge, I amazed you didn’t know this was a ‘thing’....

IvisonGuitars

richardhomer said:

@miserneil - given your vintage knowledge, I amazed you didn’t know this was a ‘thing’....

I know. Turns out I'm a fraud

mgaw

I despair, are there no depths of depraved sales bullshit left undisturbed. Wankers

IvisonGuitars

mgaw said:

I despair, are there no depths of depraved sales bullshit left undisturbed. Wankers

A forumite just sent me a link to their Facebook post, lots of 'could it be Jimi's??' in the comments. Very clever.

impmann

miserneil said:

mgaw said:

I despair, are there no depths of depraved sales bullshit left undisturbed. Wankers

A forumite just sent me a link to their Facebook post, lots of 'could it be Jimi's??' in the comments. Very clever.

No it coulnd't.

Its some twat with a fag lighter and a fevered imagination.

richardhomer

miserneil said:

richardhomer said:

@miserneil - given your vintage knowledge, I amazed you didn’t know this was a ‘thing’....

I know. Turns out I'm a fraud

Or a right handed non-smoker....

mgaw

miserneil said:

mgaw said:

I despair, are there no depths of depraved sales bullshit left undisturbed. Wankers

A forumite just sent me a link to their Facebook post, lots of 'could it be Jimi's??' in the comments. Very clever.


Words fail me

axisus

Meh. Not particularly offended by it, not particularly interested in it.

IvisonGuitars

axisus said:

Meh. Not particularly offended by it, not particularly interested in it.

Interested enough to comment though.

mikem8634

mgaw said:

I despair, are there no depths of depraved sales bullshit left undisturbed. Wankers

A phrase to sum up our times indeed

Strangefan

Ooh it's Atoyboy... Why does that not surprise me.? 

mbe

I tell you what's a rarity. An air guitar with a burnt headstock from an exploding e-cig.

SNAKEBITE

axisus said:

Meh. Not particularly offended by it, not particularly interested in it.

Well, that's not the attitude that won us the war now is it?

Funkfingers

mbe said:

I tell you what's a rarity. 

Considering how many times Hendrix was photographed between 1966 and 1970, I can find none in which he had wedged a lit cigarette between the strings and the headstock of his guitar.

mikeyrob73

maybe it was actually Clapton Playing an upside down strat 

Funkfingers

Even then, on a large headstock, would the burn occur exactly on the pointy corner ... and burn so far around the edge?