Show Me Your Ugly Stick & I'll Show You Mine!!!

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Sorry for the upside down and backwards photos, I'm not sure what happened? Anyway, I personally think that we should all have a "Ugly Stick" in our arsenal? I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about if you've seen my baby? Ugly Stick is just what I named mine, & yes I name them 😜! This term refers to all the great sounding & playing guitars out there that have been stickered, scraped, sprayed, banged, beaten, butchered, & had all manner of messed up s*** done to them but no matter what we can never let them go! My Ugly Stick was bought new in 97 & I've owned it ever since, I can't even start to count how many different things I've done to it over the years? Its just a MIM Strat but it's also the guitar I learned on & the guitar that started my modding career? I remember the first set of pups I put in it , some Texas Specials and its probably had over 100 guards built for it, or in it since! For some reason no matter how much abuse I've put it through or how many time I dropped it, kicked it, or straight up through it across the room it just keeps going! Of course I've had to do some basic maintenance to it, truss adjustments and such but everything else aside from the elections is the same as it was when I got it. Nowadays I keep one TB-1 & a vol. pot in it, which sounds flipping great BTW, but it still comes apart every few months if I'm making a new guard for another one of my Strats or I get some oddball idea that I want to try but don't want to sacrifice one of my nicer guitars? She's been wearing herself into a nice light relic & you just gotta have some slime green polka dots on it!!!! The dots are to cover up some holes I put in the paint by shooting it with my kids Airsoft sniper rifle, I got kinda bored??? Anyway, I find these kinds of guitars extremely interesting & their story's even more so, if you got one I'd love to see it & hear any of the interesting history behind it!!!
 
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The thread title is wrong on so many levels.

Anyway, you showed me yours so I'll show you mine:

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A lot of folk say she's ugly but she sure is purdy to me. She is a snake in the grass and wild in the sack. Warmoth chambered black korina body; Warmoth wenge neck with a ziricote fretboard. Duncan Jazz neck humbucker and bridge trembucker, STK-S4 middle with split coils from a push/pull volume pot (for all 3 pickups). The neck is about 8 years old now and the body is 7 years old. Been my number 1 guitar since 2008.

When I first finished and assembled it she had a 59 neck and a JB bridge. Eventually I swapped the JB out for an Alnico II Pro bridge before finally making the switch to the Jazz set in 2012. My sweat is soaked in to the unfinished wenge neck and my love stains are all over that body from the many hours we've spent together. I originally bought the neck for a MIM Strat I used to have but I am a LP guy so eventually I grew tired of the Strat body feel and look.
 
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I got a couple of gaudy ones, but not sure if I own any ugly ones...........let me double check. I dig both of those, by the way.
 
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Filled in holes in the pickguard. Body had something dumb carved into it so I sanded it off... I'll be making it more pretty this week though.
 
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This is the very first electric guitar that I ever bought. It was that Fender Vanilla finish or whatever it is called. I pretty much immediately took it apart right after I got it when I was like 21. I spray painted it black one afternoon, and set it out to dry in my backyard. I bet five minutes after I did that, a summer storm rolled in out of nowhere and poured on the guitar until I could run out there and grab it. It totally fried what I had done with the black paint job, and the rain caused all of this weird 3d type crap on it. I ended up letting it dry, and then kind of splattered it with some type of white paint after that. I've put electric guitar strings on it since then, and it still plays great, but I've never re-installed any electronic componets back into it. I think I call it the Thundercloud or something like that, I really can't remember. I just dug it out of my garage just now.
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I have nothing but ugly sticks. But these two might be the ugliest! (Pinecaster is gone tho, still have the body)

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These pics have both been here on the forum but anyway.
 
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An old Japanese Poplar Westone that I got rewired. Used to have stock actives, now a Jazz neck and 59/custom hybrid but reversed and with an A2 mag in the bridge
Also a skull tone knob and a volume that goes to 11...

The paint job was done by my old guitar teacher. He owned it but thought it was useless so he painted it up and gave it to me for my birthday. It sat on the wall and in its case for probably 10 years before I decided to invest in making it playable as opposed to buying another guitar.

I might just get an original floyd in there and swap the mag to an A8 to make it seriously shred. Frets are a little wide and low for my taste but when they wear down too far, I'll get taller ones.
 
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Hand made ugly Actually i love it.

Ok this is my ugly duck. Has a hell nice quartersawn promod neck and a vintage gotoh floyd rose.






 
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a 1985 gibson SG loaded with an EMG 85 & H that i have owned since 91. I would love to get this guitar fixed up ,but since its not played that much... it probably want happen until i get an influx of disposable income.. I do like the guitar though as its an uncommon configuration/model for an SG that was only made from 83' to '88 and this guitar holds alot of memories

all the stuff I want done:
refinished
refret w/SS frets
neck reset.. has 2 stress fractures and to properly fix them.. this will need to be done i think
neck sanded.. as I really dont care for a painted neck
pickup swap with some medium output passives

by the time all thats done.. i provably could of bought a Jackson SL2Q .. lol.. needless to say.. its a project that will eventually get done

 
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There's already this one...




And another in the process...may turn out like crap but...we'll see...sprayed first coat of Gloss Black Nitro and sanded smooth...


 
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My ugly stick, "The Phoenix," went through a fire. There's clear epoxy over the char, making it smooth again but the finish is now... unique!

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My guitars certainly have some ugly qualities.
 
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I haven't touched this guitar since finished it. gly as sin but i thought i might keep it for my boys to play around on.



 
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All my guits are ugly if you like teles and such.
Here's my for sure ugly one tho: even tho I think it's sexy.

 
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kramersteen said:
Hand made ugly Actually i love it.

Ok this is my ugly duck. Has a hell nice quartersawn promod neck and a vintage gotoh floyd rose.






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Wow! That's just perfect! Beautiful, absolutely beautiful! It looks like one of those guitars that you can tell it's a great player without even touching it??? Does it have a pickup selector & I'm just not seeing it or is it just hidden somewhere?
 
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