I can't remember who exactly on this forum said that as soon as I build one guitar, I will want to build another....haha its true. Straight after finishing a Telecaster i have moved on.
Whenever I was at one of my friends house, i would always see the vague figure of a guitar packed away in the cupboard. For ages I considered buying it, and then last week i purchased it for 15 english pounds. Now bear in mind I never took this guitar out to look at it in any detail, all i knew was that it was a guitar of some sort.
Well the guitar was a piece of Sh*t, basically. The guitar was handmade by someone in about 1978 or something. The body had been painted over in white ( badly). However the white was more a black colour due to the thick layer of dirt all over it. It stank of smoke because it had spent the last at least 8 years sitting in a smokey room. The pickups seemed to be held in place by a combination of small sticky pads and chewing gum....
There was part of a Mandolin attached to it.... The tremelo did nothing it was just screwed into the wood, had no contact whatsoever with the strings.
Whenever i took the pickboard off, there seemed to be messages written all over it by whoever made the guitar....an example... 'I love you, do you love me?'
The guitar is also not full sized, it is just a random size, which will make it hard to buy a new neck for, which was what i was planning on doing.... not enough time or money or skill to make a neck myself. hmmm
So as you can tell this is gonna be a strange project. I will post some pictures as soon as i can, just so you can see this.