you sound stress are you having problems good luck tomorrow let me know i will keep my i on e bay lol ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:38 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] How do you rework an old electric guitar?
Taking the Vette to Los Vegas Raceways tomorrow for some tuning and testing on my new motor. If it doesn't run 9.50 you will see it on EBay. -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rhonda & Steve Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:23 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] How do you rework an old electric guitar? hey Larry what's up not much here ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:07 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] How do you rework an old electric guitar? Maybe you guys can help me out. I have sitting in the closet a 1964 Fender Sunburst Strat. I bought it in 1966 along with a Fender Duel Showman Amp for $700.00. The guitar has been fitted with "Hum bucker pickups, Shailer tuning pegs and a Bicsby Bad-ass bridge. All of this work was done in the early 70's and I still have all of the original parts. 1. What is this ax worth? 2. Is it worth me refitting it with the original parts? 3. Is this something that an old burned out hot-rodder can do? I was offered $10,000.00 for the guitar and amp, is this close? BTW. The other night I took it down to the shop and put my straight edge on the neck and it is still within .005 of absolutely flat. The guitar hasn't seen strings since Elvis died. I look foreword to your comments. Larry -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:47 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] How do you rework an old electric guitar? Nice, I played one of the nobody Steinberger and it was pretty neat. I also have a Fender American Jazz and a U.S Masters which is made in Wisconsin. I figured if I could get what I wanted, then I'd be happy. The only other bass I'd love to have is a good fretless. I tried a couple, but just haven't found the one I want. I wanted to take a bass and convert it to fretless, but I decided I wasn't going to do the job well enough. Of course I'm not quite good enough yet in my opinion to really play a fretless and sound good at it. grin I do love playing and maybe one day I'll even consider making a bass. That would be fun, but of course I haven't the equipment to do that task and you'd need some good tools to pull that off. Well pull it off and end up with a playable instrument. On Feb 16, 2008, at 9:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sweet, and in a league beyond me. > My bass is a full bodied blue Steinberger, up from a Rick. > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Scott Howell wrote: > > > Isn't it amazing the stuff they've come up with? I just picked up a > > Brubaker that this gent paid somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 > since > > I don't know if he got it from the Brubaker shop directly which > means > > he probably paid MSRP or what. In any event, I paid much less than > > either price and this bass uses the Bartolini pickups and preamp > with > > a bypass ability for incredible range of sounds. You can even take a > > fairly inexpensive instrument and provided the neck, bridge, are in > > good shape and just change the pickups, you can get a nice > instrument > > out of the deal. > > Of course quality of wood etc. does play a role in producing a nice > > instrument and even whatever they seal the wood with can have some > > effect as well. > > > > On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> if the frets are good, the neck is right, the bridge and the nut > are > >> right; you can buy better pickups than come standard. > >> Ask at your local guitar shop, maybe not guitar Center, about new > >> pickups by > >> Demarzio, Duncan (my favorites) and so on. > >> I put a ?59B? in front, a humbucker classic strat in middle, and > a hot > >> Duncan with a tapped pole to reduce the output in the tail > position. > >> But, they had to do routingfor depth and put these nice frames > >> around the so it was way beyond me. > >> That guitar is gone. > >> But I've had new nickle alloy pickups put on my Yamaha Les Paul > copy > >> and > >> they also sound better than the original. > >> My above guitar was an alder wood Fender Strat. > >> This is a yamaha copy, as I said. But there are some primo > pickups out > >> there. > >> Ask you guys at the shop what they think is required for the > sound you > >> want. > >> > >> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Matt wrote: > >> > >>> Mine is not an old guitar in my opinion. > >>> It's a Japanese knock off of the fender stradacaster which I > >> bought when I was 16 or so and I am now 37, so it's old, but not > pre > >> plastic or anything ya know? > >>> hahaha, > >>> My question is, could I possibley rework it myself? Replace wiring > >>> and such if necessary, or should I just finally > >> invest in a new guitar? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Matt > >>> > >>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > Scott Howell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! 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