New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

[Ascension]

New Pawn Shop prize I just brought home a few minuets ago.
Mr Potato is a neck through hand built super Strat and a KILLER player. Just picked it up at a tent sale at a local pawn shop for a $100 bill + tax in the hard case!





And to remove all doubt on where it just came from.

Will post more once she is cleaned up and restrung.

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Ouch, Solid Maple. Super ICEPICK. Needs one pickup and one pickup only-Screamin' Demon ( bridge).Anything else and your just Whistling Dixie. Id'a bought that without batting an eyelash.

 

[Ascension]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Ouch, Solid Maple. Super ICEPICK. Needs one pickup and one pickup only-Screamin' Demon ( bridge).Anything else and your just Whistling Dixie. Id'a bought that without batting an eyelash.

Not solid maple. The center strip of the neck is maple but that's all body looks like alder to me maybe. i played 1980's all maple Carvins for years and this one is not nearly as bright. let you know more once i get it set up and restrung. These rail pickups will go at some point but for right now I want to get it really set up and playing so I get a grip of the real tone of the woods before I decide what goes in it.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

congrats
dude you always find the bargins

+ 1
for posting your CC #
:naughty:

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Noice!!!

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Lame name but sweet looking guitar, me gusta. I bet it balances very well strapped on with that slightly longer upper horn.

Where's TLD, he's late to this thread .

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

^ He likes anything. Not much point to his posts from a critical analysis standpoint.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

That looks mint.

 

[stringbender11]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Amazing to get a guitar like that for $100. Light years beyond a Squier or something similar you might get for the same money.

 

[BloodRose]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Nice score!! Congrats Bro! Look forward to the review

 

[Wattage]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

That's one heck of a pawnshop find

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

I love finds like that. It's easy to pull out $100 on something that good.

I like the idea of always getting to know a guitar the way the manufacturer intended before changing things up.

A real Floyd bridge and a SD Parallel Axis bridge pickup is what that shred stick calls for, although that pickup set looks pretty brutal as it is.

 

[youngthrasher9]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

I bet it balances very well strapped on with that slightly longer upper horn.

That's what she said!

 

[youngthrasher9]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

That looks like a beast of a guitar for $100, btw.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Kent Armstrong pickups. Those came in several "strengths" from noise-cancelling vintage Strat output level up to screaming hot Metal. Putting a DC resistance meter on each pickup will clarify exactly what each one is.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Amen!!!

 

[PunkKitty]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Nice score!

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

Will post more once she is cleaned up and restrung.

Pics along the way!!!

Again,Nice Grab!!!

:headbang:

 

[Ascension]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

I love finds like that. It's easy to pull out $100 on something that good.

I like the idea of always getting to know a guitar the way the manufacturer intended before changing things up.

A real Floyd bridge and a SD Parallel Axis bridge pickup is what that shred stick calls for, although that pickup set looks pretty brutal as it is.

The real Floyd is something I am looking at although this thing stays in tune so far pretty well.
This guitar had been hanging on the wall for a while at that Pawn Shop priced at $400. I knew that had a Tent Sale set up for yesterday so went over and the manger knew I had been looking at it and offered it to me for $100.
Don't know where I will go on the pickups yet.
Kind of leaning JB and Alnico II pros right now or maybe an Alt 8 in the bridge.
Want nice glassy strat type tones in every thing but the bridge then some fat big tones with a little heat.
The neck on this thing is a killer, it's fast with a D profile and on the slim side W/ big jumbo frets and a flat radius.
From what I understand this is from South Korea and was built by a small boutique builder close to a US Base who builds every thing by hand.
These are the specs on the site> Features Body : solid ash with MP Neck : thru neck F/B : rosewood F/B
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6NT1_Mr_Potato_Guitar__Pyeongtaek_Korea
http://potato_guitar_shop.en.productscn.com/
I can tell you that this is a very very well built guitar and I really want to get her set up and out on stage a couple times like it is now to see how she responds before I start messing with the Pickups.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: New Pawn shop Prize Mr POTATO!

A lot of rails on that guit. Nice score.