Note to self: Don't try to relic a guitar finished in polyester

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Note to self: Don't try to relic a guitar finished in polyester

Post by sunburster » Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:10 pm

https://reverb.com/item/14490639-fender ... ef-no-1699

Yuck! :fp:
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Post by PixMix » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:21 pm

The worse thing about it, other than the hideous looks, is the damage done to the actual body - deep dents and missing chunks of wood. Yuck, indeed!
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Post by pscates » Sat Aug 18, 2018 2:27 am

That must be a legit accident of some kind. Everything else - chrome, pickup covers, knobs, pickguard, neck/fingerboard, etc. - is so pristine.

Someone probably got a belt sander for their birthday and didn’t have any scrap wood lying around to try it out on. Being it was their birthday, alcohol/impaired judgement likely factored in.

Even the shittiest, most poserdom-afflicted and deranged relic artisan on earth wouldn’t purposely do the above, right?
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Post by jdr1014 » Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:31 am

Just plain stupid! Looks like that one had a nice looking sunburst body too.....
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Post by B » Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:51 am

So much fail. :fp:
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Post by Stephen_42 » Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:28 am

'Condition: Good (Used)'

Well, at least they have a sense of humour.
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Post by jasonpetzold » Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:38 am

AND it has a Buzzstop...talk about adding insult to injury...
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Post by s_mcsleazy » Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:08 am

i want someone on here to save it. even if someone just strips it and stains the body
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Post by pscates » Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:54 am

That’s all fixable, isn’t it? If you stripped all the rest off, puttied/reshaped the gouged areas (would you use Bondo for that?), got it all smooth and then gave it an opaque paint job (solid, metallic or even a flake) it would look fine. Everything else looks to be in perfect shape (which really makes me think this was some freak accident/drop and not thevworld’s worst relic effort.
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Post by ThePearDream » Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:24 am

$110 shipping? Just slap an address label on the pickguard and drop it in the bin. It'll show up looking better than it does now.
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Post by leokula » Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:59 am

One less sunburst MIJ jazzmaster in the world :fp:
Jaguar > Jazzmaster :)
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Post by armyofbees » Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:24 pm

ouch! I wonder what would even make the seller attempt this???
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Post by Fiddy » Mon Aug 20, 2018 3:37 pm

Oh wow that looks great, im doing that to all my guitars.
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Post by 601210 » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:41 am

The seller is a used guitar shop in Japan, I guess you could ask why they'd buy it in the first place but I can only assume they got a really good price for it, and I'm sure there's someone out there who's really into Sonic Youth so the guitar looking like it fell off a van and got dragged a kilometer or two isn't a big deal.
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Post by rumfoord » Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:46 am

It looks like a very careful job done in the complete dark, to me.
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