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When boredom meets a guitar I never use anymore...

DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
edited March 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
They create this. It's my first electric guitar, an Epiphone Special II. My higher-end Epiphone that I have all but rendered this one obsolete to me, so I haven't even picked it up in at least a few months. So I was bored, and decided that I might as well play around with it a little bit and maybe I'll end up even liking it. So I sanded the finish off of the neck with rough sandpaper (a very tiring process, I might add) and then made it even smoother using fine sandpaper. It felt amazing... I personally love guitars that don't have a glossy lacquer on the neck. Then I decided what the hell, I might as well give it a new paintjob as well... the "vintage sunburst" looked absolutely terrible, and even my PJ sticker and hand-drawn doodles with a silver sharpie didn't help. That required sanding the gloss off the body (only the gloss though, not down to the bare wood, thank God), using a hefty dose of masking tape to cover the pups and a few other things, and giving it a nice coat of burgundy spray paint. So I ended up with this:

Front: http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8434/frontzb7.jpg
Neck: http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6858/neckkv4.jpg
Knobs: http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7784/knobsjl3.jpg
Headstock: http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/3359/headstockwp6.jpg
Back: http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6449/backwn2.jpg

So it looks a lot cooler, but it still sounds like crap. :D Oh well. Maybe eventually I'll slap some new pups in there and make it into something pretty cool. I'm thinking of maybe wrapping some electrical tape over it a few times, to give it a kind of Van Halen pattern. I don't know. It's still a hell of a lot of fun to play around with useless guitars though, even if it doesn't really make you play it more.

Oh yeah, and I think I broke the tone control by accidentally twisting the knob too far. Oops. At least it has a really nice neck. :D
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  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    nice, looks like fun to me, you can throw different pups and wiring in now and play around.
    My Girlfriend said to me..."How many guitars do you need?" and I replied...."How many pairs of shoes do you need?" She got really quiet.
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Well after posting that I decided that I thought the striped electric tape idea seemed pretty cool, so I just threw some on:

    http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/8656/front2ex5.jpg

    Now I think it looks really cool. :D
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • DiRtyFranK38DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    that tape looks AWESOMEE. what kind of tape is that..
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    DOSW wrote:
    Well after posting that I decided that I thought the striped electric tape idea seemed pretty cool, so I just threw some on:

    http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/8656/front2ex5.jpg

    Now I think it looks really cool. :D

    Dude, I have a very similar Epiphone "Special" SG model which I hardly play now since I got a half decent Fender acoustic...... and after looking at those photos, I think I'll have to send it to you for a refurb!!! Tape and all...
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