Free guitar to a good home - giveaway

[Securb]

Some of us SDUGF members are trying to put together a partscaster for a deserving recipient. If you need a decent axe and can't afford one let us know in the link below.

This is all about getting a decent player in the hands of a deserving musician. If we get enough parts donations maybe we can get axes in the hands of a few players.

Lets pay it forward.

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...-Karma-To-Musos-who-can-t-afford-decent-guits

 

[Snake Aces]

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I used to have a lot of solid quality spare partscaster parts. Warmoth pickguard, SSL-1 neck pickup and some electronics laying around a few years ago among other things like neck plates, tuning machines, etc. I wish I still had them to donate to this cause. Great idea for sure.

 

[JOLLY]

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That thread cracks me up. It's like, hey let's put a guitar together to help somebody out. I tell you what, since I started this thread and want to help someone out, maybe I should get the guitar....Lmao. I think I will go start a thread about helping someone out by getting others to pitch in and buy someone a car.

 

[firebirdguy72]

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That thread cracks me up. It's like, hey let's put a guitar together to help somebody out. I tell you what, since I started this thread and want to help someone out, maybe I should get the guitar....Lmao. I think I will go start a thread about helping someone out by getting others to pitch in and buy someone a car.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that was messed up... I mean really? Who starts a thread about giving a guitar to someone less fortunate than suggest that you should get the guitar. Especially considering most SDGUF members are in the U.S. and he's in Australia. Who's gonna pay the shipping bill that's gonna be at least $100? I like the idea of giving away a forum built guitar but seriously? :grumble:

 

[Lazarus1140]

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Yeah, that's the first thing I thought, too. To be honest, it was also the second thing I thought.

I have many parts I'd be willing to donate to a guitar project intended for someone in need, but I'm not sure that the act of sticking one's hands out repeatedly necessarily qualifies as need.

For what it's worth I have single coil pickups, Strat 11 hole S/S/S pickguards, Fender vintage 6 mounting hole trems, etc.

Completely off topic: I once had a Rondo "Les Paul" given to me. I was the third or fourth owner including the dealer, and no one ... not even the dealer, had to pay for it. I gave it away.

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Free guitar to a good home - giveaway

That thread cracks me up. It's like, hey let's put a guitar together to help somebody out. I tell you what, since I started this thread and want to help someone out, maybe I should get the guitar....Lmao. I think I will go start a thread about helping someone out by getting others to pitch in and buy someone a car.

Why stop there? We could build a house for someone, but it should be a house larger than mine. Hey, I have an idea. I could use a house larger than mine!

 

[Strat o Tele]

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Why stop there? We could build a house for someone, but it should be a house larger than mine. Hey, I have an idea. I could use a house larger than mine!

Lol, what a tool! I'm less fortunate than a lot of people, can someone build me a Hard Tail Stratocaster? Single Humbucker & Vol. knob, no guard, kind of Charvel style with a nitro finish & hard case? I Really deserve 1, even Santa said so!!! It's like quitting your job & starting a go fund me account? I've got thousands of dollars worth of parts, built guards, puppies, peramps, hardware, & other stuff that I would bend over backwards to donate to a good cause, find me a prodigy playing on a piece of plywood with a pickup glued on & it's all his! I'll even build & ship it but not to the O.P.??? My parents wouldn't buy me a guitar because they thought it would be a fad & I'd quit after a month! That was 25years ago now. My first guitar was a gift from my jr high school musical teacher, my grades sucked, I hated school & I was always in trouble, that man changed my life with a $30 harmony. After, I changed my friends, my grades went up, & I started playing in a band so there were girls, & myself esteem grew! Music is a wonderful gift, but let's not forget we had to work to get where we are, it's part of the journey. In hindsight, if my rents would have bought me the guitar I wanted i prob. would have quit, but they said I could not so I did!!!! Good idea though, let me know if we can figure out a way to keep people honest, I'm happy to help in any way I can! You should probably have to be "sponsored" to get it? If not everyone is going to have a bunch of sob stories!!!

 

[LLL]

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I'm really curious about 4 things:

1) who determines whether a recipient is "deserving"...

2) ...and based on what criteria...

3) ...and how do we know for sure this recipient cannot afford a decent guitar...

4) ...and how do we know a forumite (the "determinee") isn't going to just hook his "buddy" up with a free guitar?

Also, people aren't exactly known for being truthful on the internet; lots of fakers and liars out there.

Someone once said, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Someone else said, "sometimes good intentions have an ulterior motive".

 

[metalchurch79]

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LMFAO!
Exactly to all above posts!!
I honestly didn't know what to think about that thread that's why I didn't post until way later... Im down for whatever, but there's way too many questions to be answered...

 

[Demanic]

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^^
Need is not a virtue.
Now, if I decide to invest in a particular individual that I deem worthy of such, and if there are others that think likewise, then so be it.

 

[ehdwuld]

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I have given guitars to people who simply smashed them the following week while on a bender

who have taken them directly to the pawn shop

who have sold them directly to their neighbor

who have treasured them to this day

rarely have they been played

I want to participate

and if a worthy candidate is chosen
let me know

I'll pitch in in an appropriate way


there was some kid on here some years ago
that wanted a guitar badly

and I wanted to help
without coming across as a predator

I believe in getting instruments into young hands
but this thing seems to have snagged up early






Bruce
let me know when something is sorted
I'm in

 

[firebirdguy72]

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To be honest if this whole giveaway thing is gonna happen than I think this should be the main thread for it... the other thread is a bit of a lost cause... and since the supposed Jimi Hendrix inncarnate is the OP it lacks any credibility whatsoever....

 

[Lazarus1140]

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Maybe there should be a thread in the Sound Room where we all tell how deserving and needy we are because of some string of fabricated hard luck stories.

 

[GuitarStv]

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Maybe there should be a thread in the Sound Room where we all tell how deserving and needy we are because of some string of fabricated hard luck stories.

Spoken like someone who didn't have to walk barefoot uphill on glass to work in the coal mines of Canada every morning of his childhood. Nothing to eat but a bit of moose meat, and we only got that when the moose were running slowly enough that we could catch up to them and bite a piece off with our teeth. The only solace in our lives was wishing that one day some rich American out there would build a guitar of castaway parts and gift it to us . . .

 

[LLL]

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Maybe there should be a thread in the Sound Room where we all tell how deserving and needy we are because of some string of fabricated hard luck stories.

Hell, I'll start:

"Hello, I'm Peter Graves. And I'm left-handed. Do you realize how tough it is for left-handers out there in the world? Try and imagine, if you will, being left-handed and playing tennis with a right-handed racket. Or writing a love letter with a right-handed pencil. Or having to struggle, every single day, with a right-handed fork just so you can feed yourself and not starve..."

 

[JeffB]

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About 10 years ago I gave away a basically new MIJ Jackson here around the Holidays. ran a contest. Don't recall who won it. But like a week after he got it, he put it up for sale in the trading post. :/

 

[Lazarus1140]

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^ That sucks.

After a few days of scouring the highways and dumpster diving and so on my wife and I were able to cash in enough aluminum cans so we could finally put a couple of gallons of gas in the Grenada. Then, on the way to the Meals on Wheels outreach center where we were scheduled to deliver food to some old people, invalids, and shut ins of every sort a little rabbit ran out into the street in front of the Ford and I had to crash into a concrete wall to keep from hurting the little fella. Most of the gravy stayed on the mashed potatoes and so on so you can imagine how happy I was until I saw that my Sguire Strat had split right down the middle. I don't actually need a guitar for myself. It's not like I'm a rock star or anything, but I won't be able to use it to accompany myself while I'm singing hymns to the old people at Sunset Village. They might miss it as they tend to be very resistant to change. I dunno. If someone had something like a PRS ... even a new SE or something (Black Cherry finish would be best) they wanted to send me I think the old folks would like that a lot. Also, most old people like to see guitars come out of hardshell cases. It kinda reinforces their faith in the probability of life after the casket. Anyway, I am not complaining. I am just explaining that my life has always been good due to the kindness and generosity of strangers.

 

[treyhaislip]

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About 10 years ago I gave away a basically new MIJ Jackson here around the Holidays. ran a contest. Don't recall who won it. But like a week after he got it, he put it up for sale in the trading post. :/

While a gift is a gift it was kinda dumb to post it for sale on the place he got it for free...I wouldn't pay jack knowing the dude got if for free...

 

[firebirdguy72]

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Oh God don't get me started on tough times... I once worked for a volunteer agency that plays rock n roll for underprivileged villages in Tibet. But in order to get to the sponsored village I had hike most of the Himalayan mountain range. I started in Afghanistan hiked through Pakistan, India, Nepal and then I finally crossed the border into Tibet... At this time I only had a Squier strat with a gig bag so I was quite worried about what would happen to my most prized possession. Though in a sudden flash a burst of wind launched my most prized possession off my shoulders and sent it careening down the mountain side. Making a snap decision and using my experience as a world's class snow boarder I grabbed the nearest piece of tree bark I could find. Luckily The tree carcass was oddly shaped like a snow board. Talk about luck! Anyway I went barreling down the mountain side after the slab of basswood that meant most to me in life. However before I could catch up I saw the bolt on neck snap in half and watched the body hit a tree at high speed. I scoured the mountain side looking for the bits of maple, rose wood and basswood hoping that maybe just maybe there might be a Luther in the remote mountain village that could fix my beloved. Once I arrived at the village and they realized that I had broken the guitar that was meant to rekindle their spirits they banished me out into the harsh winter of the Himalayas until I came back with a mint 62 reissue strat... so please someone be kind enough to donate one to me because other wise how I be able to teach those Himalayan children about the likes of Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix? Please... do it for the children...

 

[JeffB]

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While a gift is a gift it was kinda dumb to post it for sale on the place he got it for free...I wouldn't pay jack knowing the dude got if for free...

Some other forum bros gave him a ration of **** for it, and he sent me a PM asking if I would mind if he sold it. Told him it was his to do what he wished with it and meant it. But it still made me upset. It was XMAS and I knew some of the forum bros who did not win it could have really used and appreciated a nice guitar like that. It was an arch top soloist thingy with the edit- mini sharktooth inlays.string through, black flame top,and it was a KILLER playing guitar with great natural tone.