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Yeah, I'm firmly in the 'fuck it' camp now. I was fuming this morning but I've chilled as the days gone on. Also, after speaking to the dude and him being humble enough to admit he'd goofed as well (and put his money where his mouth is), I was over it. Onwards and upwards.
I'm so sorry if I was the harbinger of your bad mood!johnnysomersett wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:03 pmYeah, I'm firmly in the 'fuck it' camp now. I was fuming this morning but I've chilled as the days gone on. Also, after speaking to the dude and him being humble enough to admit he'd goofed as well (and put his money where his mouth is), I was over it. Onwards and upwards.
I've had some crazy luck this year with gear so it was about time I got bent over and unexpectedly shafted on something
Ahhh, it wasn't your fault. The more I dug into it I could tell things were going south. You just confirmed a few things and pointed out some I had overlooked! I wouldn't sweat it - your analysis was a massive help.mbene085 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:22 pmI'm so sorry if I was the harbinger of your bad mood!johnnysomersett wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:03 pmYeah, I'm firmly in the 'fuck it' camp now. I was fuming this morning but I've chilled as the days gone on. Also, after speaking to the dude and him being humble enough to admit he'd goofed as well (and put his money where his mouth is), I was over it. Onwards and upwards.
I've had some crazy luck this year with gear so it was about time I got bent over and unexpectedly shafted on something
I wrote a whole giant reply answering detailed questions about things like the stamping of the tuners, but then my @#$%ing phone "blipped" and reloaded the page, erasing my whole reply and I rage-quit because spending another 30 minutes compiling photos and discussing nitty-gritty details is not in the cards for me today.
Let me say some positive things though:
1) Your follow-up photos proved that the roundover was vintage-correct, so my visual impression was wrong. It was clearly a refin, but your stripped photos revealed that it's a totally vintage-correct body with tan lines from a previous natural finish, so my conclusion is that you've got yourself a vintage body. That's good! Vintage refin body plus vintage refin neck = a vintage refin Mustang by anyone's standards. I know nothing of UK prices, but with the cash thrown back your way, it sounds like you're not in nearly as bad a spot as whoever bought that guitar from Reverb thinking it was original.
2) The headstock cracks you uncovered are all easily reparable and won't be at risk of causing structural failure, especially if you glue them properly.
3) Refin "player grade" Mustangs are incredible blank slates for mods, so you can get this guitar looking and sounding however you like.
So, you've got yourself a vintage body, neck, and vibrato. Guitars have been resurrected with less!
I have some unmolested vintage pickups and a vintage bridge that I wasn't particularly planning on selling, but if you were into the idea of restoring the guitar, I'd be open to supporting the cause of an OSG restoration, so feel free to PM me. Nobody particularly cares about vintage pots on a refin, ditto for tuners, and pickguards can be found if you're so inclined (I have a spare one but it had a toggle switch hole drilled into it by someone else). That would put you back into average vintage refin territory, value-wise, after investing in the parts, of course.
Just wanted to put a positive spin on it by pointing out that you can now choose to take it in the totally customized player direction, or the vintage restoration direction. The bones are all there and they're solid.
I've used it a few times to seal up a small crack in wood. I think I'll wind a slightly wider screw in just a turn or two to open them up a nanometer, feed some in then quickly unwind the screw so the tension with the wood memory pulls it together.mbene085 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:40 pmAs long as you get to a place where you're happy with the guitar, that's all that really matters.
CA is very commonly used for this type of crack repair because it's thin and therefore easy to wick into the crack. The main reason crack repairs fail is because good contact was never established, like by using a thick glue across the top vs a thin glue that actually penetrated.
Mustangs have only become prized collectibles recently. Even <2 years ago you could get a pristine Competition for less than $2K. The pandemic really pushed up the floor for "entry level" vintages.Sauerkraut wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:03 amBummer. I wonder how it ended up with such a strange combination of parts. It’s not all bad though. Shouldn’t be too difficult to turn it into a nice guitar.
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