Jethro_Dull
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A guy buys a Strat and it never occurs to him that it'll become vintage some day. So he adds 3 toggle switches like a 5 way isn't enough. Bye-bye extra switches. You'll no longer de-value THIS guitar...
De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
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Jethro_Dull
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
Next: paint the filler white. Sand first, if necessary.
Next: paint the filler white. Sand first, if necessary.
ItsaBass
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That "repair" looks terrible. WTF, man? This is totally retarded. You are sitting there talking crap about someone else's crappy work that devalued the guitar, while doing even crappier work that devalues it even more. Did it not occur to you to simply plug the holes with plastic in a non-destructive and totally reversible manner?
That "repair" looks terrible. WTF, man? This is totally retarded. You are sitting there talking crap about someone else's crappy work that devalued the guitar, while doing even crappier work that devalues it even more. Did it not occur to you to simply plug the holes with plastic in a non-destructive and totally reversible manner?
Jethro_Dull
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
Listen, "friend", I just STARTED the repairs. Go jerk off if you're that worked up over nothing...
Listen, "friend", I just STARTED the repairs. Go jerk off if you're that worked up over nothing...
Jethro_Dull
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
uh.... how do you propose repairing the pickguard? short of somehow refilling the holes with the exact same material that it was originally made out of, and then making sure the joints are invisible, and then aging it to look EXACTLY like the surrounding area, it'd be much easier to just get a new pickguard.
Also, you don't need to get so aggressively defensive man. It just seems like you're taking the long way around for a component that at the end of the day, doesn't carry a whole lot of weight in terms of maintaining the value of a vintage guitar. What's important in a vintage guitar is the wood, the pickups, and the electronics, not the bloody pickguard. It's just a piece of mass-manufactured plastic.
uh.... how do you propose repairing the pickguard? short of somehow refilling the holes with the exact same material that it was originally made out of, and then making sure the joints are invisible, and then aging it to look EXACTLY like the surrounding area, it'd be much easier to just get a new pickguard.
Also, you don't need to get so aggressively defensive man. It just seems like you're taking the long way around for a component that at the end of the day, doesn't carry a whole lot of weight in terms of maintaining the value of a vintage guitar. What's important in a vintage guitar is the wood, the pickups, and the electronics, not the bloody pickguard. It's just a piece of mass-manufactured plastic.
Jethro_Dull
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
I got defensive because the first response was so typically hostile of the SD forums. If you're still mad at Mommy and Daddy, don't take it out on me. I didn't do it.
I got defensive because the first response was so typically hostile of the SD forums. If you're still mad at Mommy and Daddy, don't take it out on me. I didn't do it.
kramersteen
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
Uncle jerr got to him not mommy or pops.
Uncle jerr got to him not mommy or pops.
beaubrummels
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
Lots of people on here buy guitars fully intending to rip the stock pickups out and change the wiring and who-knows-what-else. No one in the moment really thinks it will be vintage someday. The stock vintage finds are the ones where someone bought it and couldn't use it, so it saw little play and spent much of it's life in the case. Strats in particular were the guitar of the masses - affordable, the average working man could get one, so who considers it an elite luxury item to not be messed with? With two volumes and one tone, looks like there's more than just the switches that got added.
I'm not sure what the plan is to repair 3-layer plastic, but I used to work in a pad printing shop where we worked exclusively on plastics and while you can repair surface scratches and restore surface textures in plastic, once the surface has been cracked or completely run through with a hole it takes a replacement part to get rid of the hole and be like new.
Lots of people on here buy guitars fully intending to rip the stock pickups out and change the wiring and who-knows-what-else. No one in the moment really thinks it will be vintage someday. The stock vintage finds are the ones where someone bought it and couldn't use it, so it saw little play and spent much of it's life in the case. Strats in particular were the guitar of the masses - affordable, the average working man could get one, so who considers it an elite luxury item to not be messed with? With two volumes and one tone, looks like there's more than just the switches that got added.
I'm not sure what the plan is to repair 3-layer plastic, but I used to work in a pad printing shop where we worked exclusively on plastics and while you can repair surface scratches and restore surface textures in plastic, once the surface has been cracked or completely run through with a hole it takes a replacement part to get rid of the hole and be like new.
kramersteen
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
Its less retarded than your HIGH opinion oF Paul Di'Anno.
Its less retarded than your HIGH opinion oF Paul Di'Anno.
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Little Pigbacon
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You know, I think I just realized that my enjoyment of his vocals on the first two albums was made possible by the strength of the songs. I'm going to have to dock points because of that.
You know, I think I just realized that my enjoyment of his vocals on the first two albums was made possible by the strength of the songs. I'm going to have to dock points because of that.
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kramersteen
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Little Pigbacon
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Bite me.
Bite me.
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Little Pigbacon
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
I guess all those really awful imports and off-brand guitars from the 60's and 70's are vintage now.
50 years from now this will be a vintage guitar.
I guess all those really awful imports and off-brand guitars from the 60's and 70's are vintage now.
Securb
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
It was bought at the Napa Valley Guitar Center.
It was bought at the Napa Valley Guitar Center.
Jethro_Dull
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
I'd like to de-flower that Girl Scout right NOW. j/k
50 years from now this will be a vintage guitar.
I'd like to de-flower that Girl Scout right NOW. j/k
Jethro_Dull
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Re: De-modding some dumb mods on a vintage Strat
'75 hardtail with ashtray (and original case). And yes, it was born in Fullerton, CA.
'75 hardtail with ashtray (and original case). And yes, it was born in Fullerton, CA.
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