It lives! It lives!

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tubecrunch

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My very first electric guitar. My bday present when I turned 10, a '59 melody maker, 3/4 size. Some a$$hole reshaped and refin'd the body, cut the pickguard, put Grover's on and added a jaguar p'up. It looked awful, which is probably why my mother could afford it. A year later I leaned it against a chair, gently knocked it over and broke the headstock. Hopefully you can see the terrible repair in the second pic which I'm sure mom was overcharged for...
I learned to hate this guitar. I couldn't keep it in tune with the original tailpiece and the pickup was noisy as hell. It only got played in public a few times (in church).
30 years later I pulled it out of the closet. Put a pigtail bridge on. Added a Novak mm90. Got it signed by Brent Mason. The final piece arrived today, dice knobs. Going to play it at a gig for the first time ever on Friday. It sounds surprisingly good.
 
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Looks nice. It is always a good feeling when you can an axe back and running.

Edit: Is it the pic or is the Fretboard/ neck additional broader from the 12th fret onwards?
 
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Jocelyn said:
Looks nice. It is always a good feeling when you can an axe back and running.

Edit: Is it the pic or is the Fretboard/ neck additional broader from the 12th fret onwards?
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That's where the body meets the neck. The upper bout used to come all the way up to the 12th fret. Even on the full size double cut models the neck sits within the body. It's a totally different look than an sg or lp. Since the pick guard is gone you can see there is no neck tenon.
 
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Interesting. I have never seen a guitar with the neck body joint there. Can we see more shots of the full neck and the back of the guitar?

The one in your avatar is a real sweetie too. :headbang:
 
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People are asking about the neck joint and stuff...this is what it looked like new...

As you can see...it's had a lot of cutting to get it to the point it is now but FWIW, I dig the look!

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Yes^^^^. That's the one. I would love for it to look like that, but it probably never would have been mine if it did. And the one in my avatar is a warmoth.
 
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I feel stupid not realizing the whole body/neck was shaved down. :D

I remember you posting about the Warmoth before I was just passing on the thought my brain has every time I see it. I love a nice piece of Swamp Ash figured like that.
 
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Gotta include Brent's sig. I should also point out the irony of where I started vs where I ended up. I started w a single p'up/ single coil guitar and non adjustable saddles. 30 years and 20 guitars later when I design a guitar from scratch, it had one p'up (stacked) single coil, and three adjustable saddles. <<<<<
 
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out of curiosity, is that an ibanez pick in the picture?

Man that looks like a small guitar! It's definitely unique. I wish I had my first guitar... then again it was a piece of crap, not a decent guitar.
 
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Good eye! Yes, ibanez sandpaper grip pick. Same shape as a jazz iii, except I don't drop them.
 
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