My musical things

[Reverberator]

Merry xmas gear fuckers.

[Diamondjimi]

Merry xmas gear fuckers.

Back at cha, Verbie !

[jhale667]

Merry xmas gear fuckers.

To you as well, Sir Verb.

[ace diamond]

Merry xmas gear fuckers.

whatever dude.

humbug!

[GAR]

"verbie..." what a stall-sporter!

[Diamondjimi]

Fuck off Troll. This another thread of someone posting their gear. Until you do the same, maybe you should stay the fuck out.
If I were Mod of this forum I'd delete every single fucking post of yours.
J is a good man. You should buy him a Christmas gift for putting up with your Trolling in his forum..




BTW, Merry Christmas to ya brutha Hale!

[Reverberator]

New Project...!!

Ok , so just lately this blues thing has taken over and It's been going down rather well with the good folk in the pubs that I frequent ...maybe they're just pissed but I'm looking into forming a permanent thing.

Anyway I saw a great little trio in a pub .. they were playing SRV , Rory Gallagher and a bit of Gary Moore , the strat he was playing looked rather unusual and so after the gig I got talking to him about it. He came over to us and proceeded to literally throw the strat down on the table with such force I thought he'd dropped it accidently....but he hadn't , it was just to relic it up a bit more...I thought that was fucking cool. So this strat was a squire body with a good aftermarket neck and decet pups , if I remember rightly in the bridge was a duncan humbucker (single coil size) and the other two were texas specials.

So I thought this was all rather good ... and then I thought fuck it I'm going to have a go at that myself as my stuff is all spiffingly shiney and dosn't look at all like it's been dragged behind your car as your wife's driving off with your best friend , all your money , your dog , your blue suede shoes and your Robert Johnson lp's.....If you get my meaning.

So.....











Cheap squire body from ebay £20 already with two decent dings .... I'm in the process of relicing it as we speak ... I've ordered a neck and vintage machine heads , gonna have to wait a bit for the pups though.

This might turn out ok or it might turn out shit , but either way it's going to be fun trying.

[GAR]

Rag down the body with muriatic acid reduced 50% with hot water, it should pickle the surface abit and take some of that shine off.

Or you could use 1200 wet-dry sandpaper, dipped in warm water with just a hint of bar soap rubbed into the water to lube the sandpaper.

Or the safest way to degloss the body would be to use automotive rubbing compound (red, not the white stuff), and handbuff the hell out of it, that finish is really really hard and thick stuff.

It won't easily take to wear n tear.

[Reverberator]

I have already took the shine of with 1000 grit , I've dinged it up some more and have done all sorts of shit . waiting for the neck now.

[GAR]

Judging by the grain in the neck pocket, that's that shit Chinese Elm they call Asian Maple. But its no relation to Maple.

They're okay bodies, not very resonant but you could do alot worser for equiv of fifty bucks.

[Reverberator]

It's Agathis , I bought it primarily for the sunburst finish and to try out the techniques of 'relicing' ... If it goes tits up it dosn't matter because it cost bugger all , and if it dosn't sound too good I've got a far better quality body to do the same to if required.

[Hardrock69]

Hey, do whatever the fuck with it you want. It is YOUR project after all. Gar is just an envious bystander.

[Reverberator]

Exactly...

But this is not a Gar and his enemies thread , and with all due respect I am big enough and experienced enough to fight my own corner.

So let's just get on with the subject and not the shit eh?

[Hardrock69]

True, dat!

I yield the floor to the distinguished gentleman.

[Reverberator]

Still waiting for the neck ...should be here today.