Guitar sized parcel received…unusual one! NGD now documented

thecolourbox

It is a fact universally acknowledged, that any day that starts with meeting @harryseven on a street corner is going to turn out well. And well it has turned out as I now have a box to unwrap

Finally met up with the man/the legend himself this morning to hand over a guitar, the decision to hand over said guitar kicking off quite a stroke of fortune that has resulted in there currently being a large guitar sized parcel in my office cloakroom.

I had decided after an unsuccessful bank holiday weekend to give up selling a certain instrument that was getting no interest whatsoever, and to give up my search for a new quirky or cool looking guitar in favour of something dull like a Tele. Nearly pulled the trigger on an Amazon Warehouse Melody Maker but didn’t because of delivery times, very nearly bought a lovely gold Gretsch in PMT but the staff were typically unresponsive so I left the shop. But whilst idly googling something on my lunch break for the sort of guitar shape I wanted to compare it against similar shaped guitars that are more available to see if I could modify them slightly to make them look similar.

And BOOM! One of the exact instruments I was after turned up on ebay (a key word missing from the item title missing hence missed by my saved searches) with a fairly reasonable buy it now price. So I made a reasonable "Best Offer" and the guitar is now mine. It arrived about 90 minutes after I handed another guitar over. Clearly fate

I’m deliberately not saying what it is yet, because I’m a big fat tease. But it’s similar to something I have, similar to something I’ve just parted with, and definitely has the cool factor I was looking for…

Photos to follow later when I’ve got it home and unwrapped it You may all guess what it is if you so wish, because I’m patronizing and annoying like that. Harry is forbidden from guessing though as he knows what it is!

mikeyrob73

Tease 

Moss

Most probably an Airline of some description

thecolourbox

Hmm, I can't possibly give any details away until I have photographed it

Ravenous

thecolourbox said:

It is a fact universally acknowledged...

Minus points for quoting books we haven't read in the first line!  (Kidding.)

thecolourbox

Ravenous said:

thecolourbox said:

It is a fact universally acknowledged...

Minus points for quoting books we haven't read in the first line!  (Kidding.)

Misquoting surely redeems me?

Funkfingers

thecolourbox said:
It is a fact, universally acknowledged, that any day that starts with meeting @harryseven on a street corner is going to turn out well.

Twenny six Dollars in my haainnnnd.

thecolourbox

Funkfingers said:

thecolourbox said:
It is a fact, universally acknowledged, that any day that starts with meeting @harryseven on a street corner is going to turn out well.

Twenny six Dollars in my haainnnnd.

Lol I wasn't doing the waiting

Funkfingers

I didn't say who brought the $26.

HarrySeven

thecolourbox said:

Harry is forbidden from guessing though as he knows what it is!

My lips are sealed!

ICBM

Danelectro Hornet?

Xsmnmy

I am guessing a solid body Hofner, like an old Colorama or Galaxie?
Or maybe an obscurely-branded Valco thing - a Tosca?
Or a more recent Eastwood? Dual Tone or H44?
When will the Reveal  be?

Sassafras

Duesenberg.

Rocker

Vox Teardrop.

thecolourbox

Lol some of you are quite close to be honest, I'm presuming an element of thread research may have been done  

I'll be revealing all when I get home tonight and can take a photo

mikeyrob73

Ffs im
in the pub only logging in to see what this is 

it better be good using all me data up

thecolourbox

Haha I'm a bit worried now that it won't be exciting enough. I only started the thread early really because I'd forget to do it otherwise later on!

Sassafras

thecolourbox said:

Lol some of you are quite close to be honest, I'm presuming an element of thread research may have been done  

I'll be revealing all when I get home tonight and can take a photo

Hardly.
None of us are that interested, frankly.
  

thecolourbox

Sassafras said:

thecolourbox said:

Lol some of you are quite close to be honest, I'm presuming an element of thread research may have been done  

I'll be revealing all when I get home tonight and can take a photo

Hardly.
None of us are that interested, frankly.
  

I know you haven't, hence your guess of a Duesenberg! I'm not Johnny Depp. I'm more of a cheap junk shop kind of chap

pintspiller

Encore Tele?

thecolourbox

pintspiller said:

Encore Tele?

Foiled again!!