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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I’d best not strike a match near it later then.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
a. Forcibly removing the headstock along the current break, sanding off a length of finish and attempting the use of acetone (or similar) to remove as much of the impregnation as possible, or...
b. Remove the finish in order to ascertain where the impregnation (hopefully) peters out, then cut and scarf on a new headstock, or...
c. Binning it.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
Y’see, at the age of 14, I ‘invested’ every single penny I had in the world in such a guitar. It was black, shiny and was bought new from a little music shop in Eltham, South East London that stank gently of cigar smoke. So did everything you bought from it...
On my return home, firstly I couldn’t understand why no matter how hard I pressed the strings into the neck, certain notes just would not ring out. Also why it hummed incessantly when plugged into my amp and that the three way switch seemed to select ‘off, off, crackle’. Finally the stench from said instrument made sleeping with the window open a must when in it was placed in my bedroom - and my mother wouldn’t stand for it being left anywhere else.
So, dejected, I took said guitar back to the shop the following weekend on the bus. This consumed much of a Saturday. The owner of the shop was less than enthusiastic to see me and the guitar, telling me I’d “buggered it up” adjusting it and that it would cost me further funds I didn’t have for him to put it right.
So, back home it came. It sat in the corner of the shed for a week (nobody could bear the smell) and then I took it to my local music shop in Sidcup, dear old Wing Music. Barry, the mischievous old devil who ran the place examined it and declared it “a pile of shit only fit for the bin”. That’s when I started crying.
Barry realised what had happened and that I’d sunk every penny I didn’t have into something that was crap - so he offered me a deal. He’d take the crappy Columbus and give me an Antoria Les Paul Gold top he had, I could pay him the difference each month over the next six months. A gentleman’s agreement.
So I did. I paid it off in three months and kept that Antoria for years as it was a great guitar. I also know that Barry stamped on the neck of the Columbus to ensure nobody else endured the disappointment of ownership and slung it in a bin.
The moral (s) of this story: a great music ship isn’t just a place to consume gear. And the best shops know that just pulling the most money out of your wallet isn’t going to keep you as a customer. I spent £1000s in that shop before Barry sold up and then sadly died.
The other is, I wouldn’t have a Columbus Les Paul copy one the house if you paid me. I wonder if someone stamped on this one to put it out if another child’s misery and then someone ‘rescued’ it. And perhaps that would be the best place for it.
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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
I do actually quite like Columbuses (Columbi?), but even then I'd say only about half the ones I've come across are really economical or even sensible to make into properly playable and functional guitars.
I was given a broken FAL Kestrel head a couple of years ago - to my surprise, it was not only easy to get working, it resisted all attempts to kill it by thrashing the living daylights out of it, and actually sounded very good with everything just turned up full - one sound only, but a fantastic glam-rock fuzztone. I sold it for a hundred quid...!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Yup - with you on the neck issue. So...a cheap MIJ neck is required!
Re. FAL - my first amp/guitar was a FAL Super Minstrel (10W SS combo with Tremolo) and a Kay K32 (natural finish, hardtail solid wood (pancake) Strat copy). They may still be about somewhere.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
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