Interesting NGD (Encore)

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So, I work at a gas station, and a regular customer came in today, saw my guitar sitting in the corner, and offered to give me an old guitar he had that he bought for his kids that they never used. I've had people offer me guitars before, and a lot of the time they never actually come through, but lo and behold, he showed up about 30 minutes later with it. I felt bad about just taking it, so I kicked him $20 bucks for it. Needless to say, it's going to need a little work, but I like it. The company is "Encore", and it appears to be rather old. It has an old 3 screw bridge which judging from the extra holes beside it is not original, a very poorly glued nut, a broken off machine head, and just WHAT is up with that 11/12 fret repair?? Anyway, I'm going to take it all apart tomorrow and take some more pictures. I love old junky guitars like this.

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Re: Interesting NGD (Encore)

The bridge almost certainly is original. The holes drilled to either side would have been to secure an "ashtray" bridge cover à la Fender hardtail Stratocaster.

Ply body. Dogbreath machineheads, pickups and controls. Probably fine for slide.
 
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Can also work as an anti-theft system. Once the burglar sees it he'll run off terrified!
 
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^^ This...

For a low-cost project seems like you can't go wrong! [emoji41][emoji106]🏻


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kramersteen said:
Big gnarly headstock on it. Now is it PLywood?
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Yep, I took the pickguard off for a minute last night, and it is definitely plywood. No markings on the pickups, but they appear to have aluminum plates on the bottom of the bobbin. The ground wire to the bridge was too short for me to get a good look at it, but maybe I will have more time tonight.
 
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Funkfingers said:
The bridge almost certainly is original. The holes drilled to either side would have been to secure an "ashtray" bridge cover à la Fender hardtail Stratocaster.

Ply body. Dogbreath machineheads, pickups and controls. Probably fine for slide.
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Oh, I didn't even think of that! I may get the cover for it. I've always liked the way the ashtray bridge covers look, I just figure it must really make palm mutes harder, and less adjustable.

By the way, does anyone have any clue what is up with those fret markers on the eleventh fret?? Whoever moved them did an absolutely terrible job. Instead of being smooth, both the holes on both the frets are about 1/8 of an inch inset. I really want a hard tail strat project, but I really need to know how terrible that ply body is going to sound before I even bother trying to fix it.
 
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Kinda digging the Vol knob placement,bridge looks workable.Could be interesting...
:)

Just scallop the neck,inlay(s) problem solved!!!
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yeah the br cover is a PITA,FWIW...

Cool headstock,too!!!
 
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I built a bunch of parts-casters this year, I can tell you changing from a heavy northern ash body to a light plywood body (and sticking the original neck, trem, and loaded pickguard) made about 2% difference in the sound. And that was probably from shaving the fulcrum block down so it wouldn't stick out the back of the thin-depth ply body. So don't worry about ply being the reason it doesn't sound good:D
That looks a lot like a guitar a freind had when we were kids (he couldn't afford the fancy Hondo I had...poor guy) Is the neck a weird Mahogany looking wood, or is it the "11,000 layers of veneer glued together" style? My buddy's guitar only had vol/tone but the 3 on-off switches. Other than the crap tuners (and the bridge not quite in the right place) it still sounded better than my Hondo strat copy.
 
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fender do usa guitars in plywood now but instead of gluing them top to bottom the get glued side to side. HA!

Shame about the inlay for sure. It would be good to put a maple fretboard on it but yeah i dont think it will be worth it. You could fill them up with rosewood dust/glue or something like that or if you're brave you could veneer the entire board. Oh another idea is you could do a big inlay around the 12th fret that spans a fret width either side.

Scallop could be good too but only if the inlays are shallow.

Ages ago i had this ancient electric guitar that i got locally for $50 smackers. It had tiny frets and heaps of those strange switches. I listed it on ebay and it went for $450. i always think it really would have made a fun project. I would love to turn one of those old teisco or something into a shred machine. Jumbo frets and humbos etc.
 
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