Nostalgic Distortion
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So the day before yesterday I had a bunch of stuff for my next Stratocaster guard arrive. I've wanted a H/S guard with 1 vol. knob & either a 3 way blade switch or a push pull for a pup selector for a while now, basically a Pro Mod San Dimas kind of deal? Now if I had known how things were going to turn out I probably would have just bought a Charvel but I didn't & building a guard for one of my 7 Stratocasters seemed like a good way to get what I wanted without having to dish out a bunch of cash, I already had the pickups & everything so it was just the guard & a pot? Anyway I put it all together & tossed it into my beater to test it out? Awesome! It came out great but I ran into a bit of a problem that for some reason hadn't crossed my mind until then? Where the hell am I going to put it??? As I said I have 7 of them but I've also got over 20 assembled pickguards counting the ones that are currently in guitars & out of the 20 I've got my favorite 7 already installed? So if I want to use the new one I'll have to give up one of the existing guards, Oh well, that sucks but what am I going to do???
I'm going to the store, that's what I'll do! I'm a coffee junky & I was out of milk, no coffee, no guitar work!!! Anyway, there was an old lady in line in front of me & she was buying lotto tickets? I watched her buy @ least 8 of them one by one & lose on every one, by this time I'm getting pretty aggravated standing in line so I politely asked her to move so I could cash out? She turns & gives me this evil look then snaps @ me for not being patient enough, walks over by the coffee counter to finish the last ticket she bought. So when I finally get up to the counter the store clerk & I kind of rolled our eyes @ her & then she asks "will that be it?" being a rather petty person when I want to be I said no, I'll also take 5 of the same ticket she's playing. Now I never buy scratch tickets but my grandfather was crazy about them so I know 1st hand how upset some people get when they are chasing a bet & then someone buys the next few tickets, it screws up their whole system, I use that word loosely!!! I looked over @ this woman & I could tell she wanted to bite my head off!!!! So I go out & get in my car, before I leave I decide I'll check them, you never know & if I did win something I'm already @ the store?
1st, 2nd, were losers but I get to the 3rd & its $40, NICE!!! I do the next one & its a $500 winner!!! I looked into the store I could see that woman still @ the counter. I know this store drops whenever they have $200 over change in their drawer so they would not be able to cash them in but just to be a petty A-hole I walked in & asked "Can you cash $540 worth of winners?" You should have seen the look on this woman's face, PRICELESS!!!! Anyway, I got them cashed @ another store, paid my cable bill & solved my 2 many guards, not enough Stratocasters problem with my new found disposable income!
I was able to pick up this new for $404.00, its nothing special now, just a Standard MIM with a couple of uncovered Blacktop Humbuckers & it was a online buy, hence the stock photo, so I'd imagine it will need a set up & all that happy horse s***? Once I've got that done & this new guard dropped in I think I'm going to have one BADASS MEXI-STRAT on my hands!!!! I will be sure to post some before & after pics when it arrives & again after I MOD it! If there's a moral to this story its " DON"T BE MEAN " karma is a B****!!!!! She lost a bunch of money trying to get rich quick & I won a new guitar trying to prove a point, or at least trying to ruin a angry lady's day!!! LOL!!!!! :nana:
So the day before yesterday I had a bunch of stuff for my next Stratocaster guard arrive. I've wanted a H/S guard with 1 vol. knob & either a 3 way blade switch or a push pull for a pup selector for a while now, basically a Pro Mod San Dimas kind of deal? Now if I had known how things were going to turn out I probably would have just bought a Charvel but I didn't & building a guard for one of my 7 Stratocasters seemed like a good way to get what I wanted without having to dish out a bunch of cash, I already had the pickups & everything so it was just the guard & a pot? Anyway I put it all together & tossed it into my beater to test it out? Awesome! It came out great but I ran into a bit of a problem that for some reason hadn't crossed my mind until then? Where the hell am I going to put it??? As I said I have 7 of them but I've also got over 20 assembled pickguards counting the ones that are currently in guitars & out of the 20 I've got my favorite 7 already installed? So if I want to use the new one I'll have to give up one of the existing guards, Oh well, that sucks but what am I going to do???
I'm going to the store, that's what I'll do! I'm a coffee junky & I was out of milk, no coffee, no guitar work!!! Anyway, there was an old lady in line in front of me & she was buying lotto tickets? I watched her buy @ least 8 of them one by one & lose on every one, by this time I'm getting pretty aggravated standing in line so I politely asked her to move so I could cash out? She turns & gives me this evil look then snaps @ me for not being patient enough, walks over by the coffee counter to finish the last ticket she bought. So when I finally get up to the counter the store clerk & I kind of rolled our eyes @ her & then she asks "will that be it?" being a rather petty person when I want to be I said no, I'll also take 5 of the same ticket she's playing. Now I never buy scratch tickets but my grandfather was crazy about them so I know 1st hand how upset some people get when they are chasing a bet & then someone buys the next few tickets, it screws up their whole system, I use that word loosely!!! I looked over @ this woman & I could tell she wanted to bite my head off!!!! So I go out & get in my car, before I leave I decide I'll check them, you never know & if I did win something I'm already @ the store?
1st, 2nd, were losers but I get to the 3rd & its $40, NICE!!! I do the next one & its a $500 winner!!! I looked into the store I could see that woman still @ the counter. I know this store drops whenever they have $200 over change in their drawer so they would not be able to cash them in but just to be a petty A-hole I walked in & asked "Can you cash $540 worth of winners?" You should have seen the look on this woman's face, PRICELESS!!!! Anyway, I got them cashed @ another store, paid my cable bill & solved my 2 many guards, not enough Stratocasters problem with my new found disposable income!
I was able to pick up this new for $404.00, its nothing special now, just a Standard MIM with a couple of uncovered Blacktop Humbuckers & it was a online buy, hence the stock photo, so I'd imagine it will need a set up & all that happy horse s***? Once I've got that done & this new guard dropped in I think I'm going to have one BADASS MEXI-STRAT on my hands!!!! I will be sure to post some before & after pics when it arrives & again after I MOD it! If there's a moral to this story its " DON"T BE MEAN " karma is a B****!!!!! She lost a bunch of money trying to get rich quick & I won a new guitar trying to prove a point, or at least trying to ruin a angry lady's day!!! LOL!!!!! :nana:
